Sorting out my shredder on a dull, cold and dreary day with Arthur Ibbett's of Great Paxton, and finally completing the drawings and planning application for our Cambridge Street redevelopment with a distracted Nigel.
#An evening cinema trip with Diana to see "The Piano" at Peterborough but we were disappointed with the experience.
The morning scramble for me to get out with the dog and for Diana to get the girls ready for school. They all went out quite happily in the end and we had bolstered up Della's morale, in particular, by praising her holiday short story highly. Some time with the gardener upon my return who continued to have problems with the shredder. He had evidently taken it into Ibbett's of Great Paxton for repair where they had repaired a valve and replaced a cylinder head gasket but still had problems upon its return on getting it to run under load and without vibration.
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I got his help in getting it onto the trailer and tied down and then drove straight over to get them to take another look. They had only had the motor part before and could now run the whole assembly under load and reckoned they had fixed it properly when I went to collect it later. Rushed to get back for 10.00am, expecting Nigel to call, but he was not here until much later with the drawings for Cambridge Street. In hurry, as always, he was anxious to get straight away but I made him sit down and go through the drawings with me whilst we evaluated the design and I could understand their format.
On the telephone to the planning officer, Andy Carmichael, immediately upon his departure and made an appointment to see him on Thursday morning by which time I hoped to have the drawings corrected and updated. Then on to Gary Webb of PPMS who evaluated the annotated plans that I had sent him by fax and quickly went over to the site to have a look round before calling me with his comments. By now, things were beginning to take shape and I was wanting to call round to see Nigel for fifteen minutes later to go over the comments and get agreement on a few points but I then had quite a frustrating experience.
He was so busy he said he could not see me and could hardly find time on the telephone either apart for five minutes. I tried to get the matters dealt with in such a short time but he was disagreeing and taking up most of the time himself. I was left to say that he should come back to me when he had enough time to discuss the issues and he then relented and we kept on talking. After tea, I took Diana out for a trip to see "The Piano" at Peterborough but we were disappointed and found it a rather weird and improbable and far too long-winded. The day was unchanged in being dull, cold and dreary and we have seen so little sunshine in recent times.