Tragic car crash on an icy day with a Northerly chill breeze kills Cornish Liberal Party star, David Penhaligon , there are more riots or ‘demonstrations’ taking place in China and OPEC agree production limits to peg oil at $18/barrel as Sterling and the Stocks rise in sympathy and I continue my map-making
Slept well and was slow again to get showered and dressed before breakfast. The meal with the family and then, it being after 9.00am, I drove into St Neots to the office supplies shop and bought a new mapping pen, nibs and ink. I also got some tracing paper, in case I was to start some more maps of later Little Paxton development. Soon home and resume my map drawing project. I work the whole day, stopping only for meals, listing and understanding the Little Paxton enclosure awards until, later in the day, I was ready to transcribe the details on to the map. I stay up late to finish the task, as there had been plenty of interruptions earlier and I was anxious to get finished. News is of two surprising deaths. First of the actor who played Dr Finley in the Casebook television series of the same name. Then in a motor car crash of the Liberal Party Home Affairs spokesman, David Penhaligon, who will be sorely missed by his hard-pressed colleagues. More riots, or at least ‘vigorous demonstrations’, in China and the authorities begin to grow impatient with these student and worker protests for more freedom. OPEC oil ministers have agreed an oil production limit that will raise the crude oil price to $18/a barrel in the short term, but whether they will actually stick to the new targets remains to be seen. The pound sterling and UK Stock Market rise in sympathy with the news, but Wall Street is more sceptical. Another cold day, with the fresh and cold northerly airstream.