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Nigel Smith visits today after I clear out the guttering and the swimming pool contractors plaster the pool sides and bottom. This as both UK teachers’ unions vote to boycott GSCE examinations, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu comes out in support of sanctions and the US intervenes to underpin the oil price
Not awake until 8.00am and then time to read the paper in bed with my morning tea before breakfast. A bowl of cereal and fruit juice and then to shower and dress a little quicker than yesterday. To my office and to phone Gerard Chadwick of Vinters, one of my trustees, to discuss Capital Transfer Tax. I decided to buy £11,000-odd worth of indexed linked government stocks for Daniella’s trust and telephoned the stockbrokers accordingly. Just as I was going to take Di to town for the weekend’s shopping, Nigel Smith turned up without warning and we spent an hour and a half chatting and showing him round. We arranged to see the antique auction in Bedford together on Friday.
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A house invasion from Daniel’s friends today and a meeting with Elm Leisure to design the pool services whilst Diana shops in horrendous crowds for beef cubes to make into a beef stew as OPEC crude falls to less than $10 per barrel and the biggest Cornish tin mine, Geevor closes to avoid £350,000 per month losses
The start of a new month and the weather this morning was marginally better. The wind had calmed down, but was still cold; there was little cloud or rain and the sun shone. I laid long in bed (my body still on GMT) and read the mail, but had to get up due to the house invasion. Daniel’s friends phoned one after another, ‘till there were four expected. Elm Leisure arrived to infill the pool surrounds and Joan and Pete started early to make up their weeks’ hours to get regular pay. I had to run their collective gauntlet to the bathroom and look forward to the commissioning of our en-suite in the near future. As soon as I was washed and dressed, I had to see Edgar Monks of Elm Leisure about the arrangements for services to the swimming pool.