A fine morning with a rising barometer to scrape, sand and paint more Hayling View windows before and after a fine Sunday lunch and consoling Debbie, sad from being excluded from computer games by Daniel and his friends and then a restful and relaxing evening; tired from my efforts. This as a new Ulster bombing campaign is thwarted by a brave constable carrying the device away. Britain’s Black Lloyd Honeyghan, 32, welterweight, become one of only two undisputed world boxing champions as a gang of 40 white youths attacked two black youths in an appalling racial display of violence in Mitcham, Surrey
Slept soundly after a fairly early night and Di got up to make the drinks with little dispute this morning. To the lounge, where I sat and read yesterday’s papers and drank my morning tea. Then a nice fried breakfast and, after brief ablutions, out to the doves. An even finer mornings weather, with the barometer rising and mist lingering even less than recently. Started my toils again and selected the six windows to the baby’s room and kitchen below. Found them in an atrocious state and had to do some carpentry on them to begin with and to clear old paint clogging the effective movement of the windows.
Only managed to scrape, sand and wipe the two window assemblies, before it was time to go in and prepare the dining room for lunch. A nice meal, but Di has been having trouble with the gas oven on Sunday mornings and finds it not hot enough to cook the meat effectively. Less time than usual washing up and putting things away, but I had to rest after the effort and retired onto the front lawn on a steamer chair and with a pot of tea. Di took the girls for a walk and Daniel had his friend Steve round for the day again. Later, Debbie came back in and tried to join the boys playing on the computer. When she started, they left to row the dinghy on the river and Debbie, poor thing, could not play the computer game and became quite hysterical. She is still suffering with her cold and feeling a bit fragile. This afternoon, I put the undercoat on the two windows and it took me until tea at 5.30pm. After, only time to put the things away, lock up, and slump in front of the TV to write up my journal and watch a documentary and drama about South African apartheid. The news today is of the opening of the Labour Party Conference, where a split on nuclear power was avoided, but a row is developing over future taxation policies and their effect on higher income earners. In Northern Ireland a new INLA bombing campaign has been thwarted, according to the police, by a constable who carried a bomb away from a population centre to waste ground and it harmed no one when it exploded 5 minutes later. After a meeting of Finance Ministers in Washington failed to agree to action on interest rates, the pound sterling is expected to come under pressure tomorrow in the foreign exchanges and with it will be a pressure to raise interest rates. Britain’s Lloyd Honeyghan, 32, has beaten world welterweight champion, Curry, to take the title and become one of only two undisputed world champions. A gang of 40 white youths attacked two black youths in an appalling racial display of violence in Mitcham, Surrey. The friendly anticyclone is still centred over South East England and I should get another fine day tomorrow to continue my labours.