Christmas Eve - Winding down activities on this happy day and taking Diana and the girls to The Little Chef for lunch to save her the work of preparing it.
Daniel arrived back early from work around 3.00pm and reported that Tensor staff had been upset by Nigel's decision to go away and leave instructions with his accounts man not to pay their wages until next Friday!
Late to bed after subsequently keeping Diana company until after midnight to celebrate the arrival of Father Christmas and ensure his good works were done. There might be some snow flurries to make the first White Christmas for a good many years.
By now, our arrangements were nearly complete for Christmas and there was not much left to do apart from the normal chores. I still had to get out in the morning and walk Sam, who seems in good form at last. Then a little time to do some work before it was time to take Diana and the girls to The Little Chef for lunch to save her the work of preparing lunch. I had walked Sam for the second time and was just to come in when Daniel arrived back early from work around 3.00pm.
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Some of the staff had been upset by Nigel's decision to go away and leave instructions with his accounts man not to pay their wages until next Friday, even though certain of them had finished for the month and others needed the money. Daniel was the last but one to leave work but did not seem bothered by Nigel's rules and still seems keen on the work. We all settled in before dark and then had the prospect of a nice evening resting and watching TV. This was not to last as I started to study the network manual and then started to re-install it by stages as originally called for in the instructions.
During all this, I found a problem with the operation of Wayplan and suspected the software installation of the network or the new 6.2 version of DOS but, after many hours work, we concluded that it was a bug in the original Wayplan software. Late to bed after subsequently keeping Diana company until after midnight to celebrate the arrival of Father Christmas and ensure his good works were done. The weather getting colder and a chance tomorrow of some snow flurries to make the first White Christmas for a good many years.