Attempts to get John Major's "Back to Basics" message on the rails were thwarted again
Attempts to get John Major's "Back to Basics" message on the rails were thwarted again

The combination of unsettling telephone calls and computer supply problems spoiling my day of outings.

I took Diana and the girls off to the cinema tonight to try to get my mind off things but the girls were a hand-full and she did not enjoy the film.

Attempts to get John Major's "Back to Basics" message on the rails were thwarted again.

Another session getting Sam to enter water and retrieve dummies across ditches this morning as the floodwater subsided and things began to return to normal. The weather was brighter generally and my thoughts turned wistfully to exploits out in the countryside in time past.

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The mystery of a number of calls without messages was solved once I was installed back in the office as I eventually was there to take the call, but it unsettled rather than made my day. Trouble also in getting through to Stak Computers to order Daniel's alternative motherboard and then, after a dozen calls and a fax, they would not have one until ten days’ time! Diana went off to Bedford and so I had to make my own lunch later, but it took my afternoon walk with the dog to settle me down again.

I had printed out this last month's journal notes and archived them this morning and so I was now completely up to date. The decision to take Diana and the girls off to the cinema tonight to try to get my mind off things but the girls were a hand-full and she did not enjoy the film. She is suffering badly from the onset of her monthly problems. To bed early in the hope of a better night's sleep.

The Tories in ever-deepening trouble as the District Auditor's condemnation of their flagship Westminster Council's gerrymandering sticks. Attempts to get Major's "Back to Basics" message on the rails were thwarted by differing cabinet minister interpretations which makes him rile angrily in private about his right-wing rebels.