Visit with the family to a very busy Cambridge for some diagnostics on my Jaguar and lunch in the Copper Kettle before home to create swings for the children in the garden and pruning trees as the world shows its disappointment with South Africa but devaluing the Rand and it looks like the 747 pressure dome is suspected of fracturing to cause the latest crash
Awake and searching for my morning drink this morning and after to settle to my paper, which takes a time. Breakfast of melon and toast and then back up to read, but a row ensues with Diana, who wants to know what my plans are for today. Up later to a shower and hair wash and then out to the birds on a much warmer and calmer day. Pete agrees to cut the lawns less close, puts the hose on our front garden one, and it will be next season before we get a good lawn. Off then with Diana and Debbie to Cambridge, as Daniel spends the day in Bedford with Paul. We collect my fen-tools from Artisan antiques and then I drop the girls off in town before spending a frustrating hour at Marshalls getting an opinion on the noises emanating from the Jaguar’s automatic transmission. Just in time to meet Diana for lunch at 12.00 noon at the Old Copper Kettle and only then by finding the parking meter free just outside. Cambridge is still very busy with shoppers and tourists this summer and is a trial to the motorist.
On to Robert Sayles after and to buy a new swing seat and then home afterwards to fit it to the garden frame for Debbie and use the old one to create a tree swing for Daniel in the riverside garden. Some time after tea tending the garden & pruning the fruit trees and then in to the TV. News tonight of the sacking of railway men by British Rail and the NUR sticks to their ballot plans before calling a national strike. Inflation falls today, but is still about 7%. Widespread disappointment is reported with the South African President’s speech and the Rand falls to a record low of 38c vs the US dollar, compared with a 1:1 parity a year ago. The jumbo investigation now centres on the pressure dome at the rear of the 747’s which may have fractured to cause the Japanese crash. Better weather forecast for tomorrow.