More wet and windy weather today flooding neighbouring gardens.
More wet and windy weather today flooding neighbouring gardens.

More wet and windy weather today flooding neighbouring gardens. Therefore working inside fitting heat sensors in the boat-shed, kitchen, bathroom; and smoke alarms in kitchen, hall and living room upstairs , Sorting and raising timber on pallets.

The government reduced interest rates by a full percentage point today, panicking about the high level of unemployment and the way the economy is stuck in recession

There was more wet and windy weather today but I still managed to give Sam some long walks and more lessons on sitting and staying at a distance. However, it was the water level that was most notable, the overnight frost freezing the invasive puddles so as to make them even more noticeable. It was the highest that I had seen it and poor Doris Vincent's garden was six inches under water all over so that she had to use boots to get out. When Jack came later, he said that it was getting close to the highest that he had seen it.

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I worked outside in the cold wind this morning, clearing the remainder of the wood pile and completing the first stage of grouping similar sections of timber and stacking it all on pallets up from the ground. As well as Jack, I also had David Birchinall, the plumber, arrive by arrangement to tackle a few drips and leaks and they both interrupted my progress. Later, I started fitting the fire sensors; first the heat sensors in boat-shed, kitchen, bathroom; and then the smoke alarms in kitchen, hall and living room upstairs. I left the sensors powered on, in the case of the smoke alarms, but left the circuit unconnected so as not to give rise to any consternation if a false alarm was to occur. A call to Diana to make my arrangements for tomorrow and a late night completing my work before a relaxing bath and hair-wash.

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