Thinking of last night’s visit to the Molesworth Peace Camp before my visit to Grove House to find some very poor Kode company administration and then to set up my Scottish forestry investment and view some other riverside houses as we consider alternatives to expanding our house before some TV cup football whilst I also watch Daniel’s poor homework attempts as the Pit talks break down again , MOD police hassle Clive Ponting again and the Commons votes to ban tests on human embryos
Later last night I had driven over to the Grafham Water car park and talked to some of the peace campers evicted from Molesworth. There had been a rise in the security temperature last night with a concern that the crane at Molesworth had been brought in to destroy the Peace Chapel – which was not true. At Perry, the police were staked out in 6-10 vehicles and were switching on and off headlights to log the movements to and from the car park. The campers, in buses and caravans, were close to the public conveniences, which had been opened by the local authority to prevent, I suppose, the fouling of the area. Both police and peace demonstrators alike were very suspicious of my presence in a Jaguar, and I was eventually challenged by the frightened campers who asked me to leave – they are very defensive and bitter after former evictions and what they report as persecution and ‘beating up’ in the past. To bed late after watching Steve Davis win another snooker tournament on the television and then awake on time to the paper and a cup of tea. A slow start to the day and, after breakfast, and with my private mail, a long time in bed reading the Fountain Forestry contracts and the Investors Chronicle.
Up at 9.30am and a quick hair wash and shave before getting dressed. Good to see my hair cut surviving a wash. Out to the birds – five eggs from the ducks and the doves feed well from the dovecote. Off quickly to Grove House to see the Kode Group Secretary, Ken Walker, and a couple of hours completing company administration for Microserve Limited and Group Micro Limited. Unfortunately, Ken had minuted the meetings as having taken place in the past (which was not necessary) and so they were pre-dated. Also he had put Comart as a past shareholder (which is undesirable) and so this has made past group accounts incomplete. We call over Diana to finish the signing and then I take her off to a Little Chef lunch. Shopping at the St Neots Co-op for Diana, whilst I caught up on some reading and then we drive round St Neots looking at riverside houses. Back to the office and phone calls to my accountants, the Scottish lawyer, my Bank Manager and finally, Fountain Forestry setting up the details of my Scottish Forestry project. Roger Littlechild of Whitmarsh confirmed my opinion of Ken Walker’s administration, but we both agree that it probably does not matter. Out to put away and feed the majority of the ducks, who came home to feed across the ice, and then in to tea of sausages and ice cream to follow. A nice log fire tonight as I watch a televised FA Cup tie, rather short with Daniel and his poor homework attempts. Hopes are dashed tonight of an agreed agenda for pit talks after talks involving the NCB, TUC and NACODS. MOD police have reopened their investigation into the Ponting affair as the party leaders still slug out their public duel. AIDS disease is now discovered at Wormwood Scrubs, which makes 4/5 suspects in Britain’s prisons as a whole as prison officers demand more government funds to fight it. In the commons, Enoch Powell’s bill to ban tests on human embryos has received a large majority on second reading. The Health Minister, Kenneth Clarke, is against it and the 172 majority may well prove insufficient to carry it through committee.