A month with lots of time to spend with my family, plan house extension and manage my doves and ducks, but still a hectic round of computer industry meetings, interviews and representation as the economy and computer industry decline under a self-serving government of dogma and confrontation
And so ends the month. My doves are settled and causing great interest in their prominent position, but the ducks have yet to resume their lay, despite morning and evening feeding and much fuss. My wife and children are fine, and me more time to spend with them learning second year Kimbolton French and reception class Pictograms in the process! Arrangements for extending the kitchen are under way and The Lady high and dry in the boatyard having the refit of her life. My mother and sister are gradually recovering, but remain walking wounded and hopes recede of getting the family together in the same place and at the same time.
Freda has this amazing idea of getting Stacey to manage a furnished letting house and Stacey is pregnant and single. Diana’s sister Sue has yet to pass her driving test and we have decided to sell the Metro rather than hold it for her. This month has alternately been hectic in the first weeks with plenty of meetings and opportunity to contribute to the computer industry plans, but eerily quiet this last week with little to do. Though my computer is repaired and I have reports and papers to prepare, I am seldom accustomed to this amount of time and regret the depth of winter and lack of light to employ my efforts more productively. My old company struggles on with much poor co-ordination and communication and I hope that Peter Smith replaces the Kode Finance Director quickly as their performance against stock market expectation will surely see a share price fall in the New Year. The computer industry is struggling with flattening demand and cut-throat competition and IBM attempting to dominate all. The government cuts all support schemes and means of getting this economy moving and is locked in a fight to the death with the miners, its own dogma and now its friends as well. Such is the state of things this November end.