A better day with the children’s health and more progress putting up curtain rails before a Little Chef lunch and a run-in with a houseboat crew over a log trailer blocking our drive and then news of another tragic motorway crash with 53 injured and Terry Waite trying hard to free the Lebanon hostages
A better night without any further tribulations with the girls. Awake to morning tea and then the, by now, customary routine of breakfast in the lounge with the family. Then a long rest in my swivel chair reading last week’s local papers and the Sunday Times, from cover to cover, on this one day that we can take our time to get ready. Then a bath and, after shaving and dressing, out to feed the ducks by the river, as I did not bother to get them in last night. Then the doves and the established flock ate on the bird table right next to the newcomers today. It will not be long before I let them out. Back inside to continue the task of putting up more curtain rails and, by working the rest of the morning, I just managed to complete the kitchen windows, three in all. Then, Daniel having gone to Gary’s house to play computers and have lunch, the rest of us went to the local Little Chef for lunch and the girls ate reasonably well. They seem to have recovered from their incapacity.
Back to curtain rails in the afternoon and evening to complete those for the bedroom and guest room, which are eventually destined to form one. Some time locking up the premises and then to rest for the rest of the evening, after a tiring, but quiet day. The weather started cold today, but seemed to warm up a little later on. The couple living on the narrow boat near to the lock blocked our drive today with a trailer full of logs, but I insisted on them moving it. We are all ready for the kitchen fitters tomorrow and the fitter from Brittains to measure our new rails for curtains. News today of another motorway crash – this one on the M6 near Birmingham, where two died and 53 injured in a multiple pile up and fire, with an oxygen lorry involved. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Envoy, Terry Waite, continues his shuttle diplomacy by leaving Beirut after meeting the terrorists that kidnapped the hostage Americans. Thatcher is defending the Anglo Irish pact and on the defensive from the Unionist onslaught, and a poll announced today highlights public support for a freeze on new weapon systems as another peace rally takes place at Carmarthen.