Looking after Della at home as Diana shops on a bitterly cold rainy day with driving sleet and snow later before we brave the elements to collect Daniel from St Neots and take them for a ‘Happy Eater’ lunch and an afternoon ‘Wimpy’ tea after some local shopping, buying Daniel his Micro User magazine and a new personal stereo. An ‘Octopus’ fair ground ride collapses in Kent, injuring 17 youngsters with five detained with broken limbs and Asians from Newham riot against the Police protesting at discrimination before an Old Bailey trial
Not today! The weather started with rain, cold and bitter wind and continued later with sleet and snow before clearing by night fall for a frost. Up anyway for breakfast of boiled duck egg, but back for a long lay in to read the last two weeks Investors Chronicles and Economists, as well as this mornings paper. Eventually Diana left with Debbie for a shopping trip in town and I washed and dressed with Daniella crawling around in tow. Then out late to the birds and fed the doves well, but found the gardener had already let the ducks out. Ten eggs safely collected. Pete had also put down the first of three smoke pellets for the moles and we shall soon see the effect. Diana returns and we set off quickly to town again, collecting Daniel and getting Debbie’s sweets from Readwells. Dan had also been nursing the last BBC Micro Users magazine, fearing it would be bought by someone else, and I bought it for him for £1.25. To the Happy Eater for lunch and the children were bad again as normal. Debbie was jealous and clingy and Daniel tired and irritable. They improve as Daniel winds down and play outside on the elephant slide together. After to Huntingdon and I look at the antique shops, but find nothing of real interest except, perhaps, an old CB 1837 teaspoon. Then to Boots with Daniel and I buy him a new personal stereo to replace his own, which he is selling to Jason Chambers.
Afternoon tea at the Wimpy and then a wet and cold run back to the car in the driving sleet and snow. Home and then I look after Daniella whilst Diana takes Daniel to pick up his bicycle with puncture repaired. Tea and then a repeat performance with me reading some computer journals as Della wanders around my legs. As darkness falls, out to the ducks, who are doubly hungry after missing their feed this morning. We are all tired this evening and rather depressed by the weather. I rest watching the television and catching up with my reading and writing. News today of 17 young people being injured as an octopus ride collapsed in a Kent fairground and 5 are detained with fractured arms and legs. A freak blizzard killed four as a plane crashed flying from England to Holland. An anti-discrimination demonstration ended today in violence, with Asians fighting police. It was about 7 of them being tried at the Old Bailey next month from the London borough of Newnham. The weather is forecast to be brighter tomorrow, with milder and cloudy weather spreading eastwards across England during the week.