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Saving the dinghy from the flooding on a breezy and chilly day, too cold to use our 60degF swimming pool, after a relaxing day in Bedford and Willington Garden Centre researching water gardening. This as Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Disarmament in Europe took centre stage in the USSR/USA arms talks which led to a hasty plan for a visit to the UK for our input. Fears of a trade war with Japan depress UK shares and inflation is till at 4% and Ernest Saunders is fighting to save his assets from sequestration.
A restless night to start with and then dropped off after midnight and made up for it then. Awoke to a sunny morning, but the river was well up, with more rain forecast for later on. Down for breakfast in my pyjamas and then showered immediately afterwards and dressed quickly so as to shortly be ready to take the others to Bedford. Before we went I noticed Pete mowing the lawns and asked that he wash & polish the Daimler afterwards. Di actually drove us off in the Range Rover and I took the opportunity to read a water garden catalogue and also today’s paper on the way. We parked in Lurke Street car park and walked to Debenhams for morning coffee.
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Feeling much better today and able to start work on cleaning the swimming pool, putting up shelves in the boiler room and putting the ducks away as the Westland helicopter saga smoulders on, there is a growing US/USSR détente to aid arms negotiations, a huge heroin haul is made at a London McDonald’s restaurant and Princess Diana breaks a taboo by shaking hands with AIDS patients to prove it is safe to do so.
Awoke this morning feeling much better than yesterday, but opted to stay in bed with my drink and to receive my breakfast there. After this meal, I got up and collected today’s paper and the post from the other side of the house. I sat in my room and opened the post. Pleased to hear that Huntingdonshire District Council Planning Department have refused the developers application to build 5 houses at Paxton Hall following my objection. I must now await their next move to see if they are to appeal. A letter from Di’s parents, who had enjoyed our balcony at the theatre on Tuesday evening.
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Being ‘looked after’ by Della this morning as the others go shopping in St Neots and then playing chess with Daniel, planning the conservatory and relaxing this evening after taking Debbie horse-riding on Barbie as hundreds of bodies are recovered from The Herald of Free Enterprise.
Diana let me sleep in after a much better night and I felt much better. She brought my breakfast up at the same time as waking me – an hour after the others. Daniella came up to keep me company and stayed with me instead of taking Debbie to school with Di. She got me up and took me into the en-suite to wash and shave to get rid of my whiskers and was most insistent! As I showered, Di came to take her off with her to do the week’s shopping in St Neots.
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Feeling even more ill today and so stayed in bed, tended by Daniel, whilst Diana took Della to Cambridge after which I got up a little this afternoon and then enjoyed Dover Sole with Debbie later but we had to give up our Cambridge Theatre Box to Di’s parents for I was still not better this evening. The Herald of free enterprise was righted and many more bodies found, the new US embassy in Moscow is found riddled with listening devices after the US Marine protection was compromised, protests in the Falls area in Belfast follow the frustration of an IRA funeral, Westland unveil a new helicopter joint venture with Augusta but face 2,000 redundancies, we are warning Japan over unequal market access and the A1/M1 link past Huntingdon is given the go-ahead
A poor night getting to sleep and then again woken early at 6.45am. Felt quite unwell and elected to stay in bed. Could not face my morning tea and only had a little breakfast. Rested in bed all morning and then managed to read today’s paper. Di had taken Della to Cambridge, but Daniel stayed here and attended my room several times during the morning to make sure that I did not need anything. The rain poured down today and he only had a very few opportunities to go out and see his boat. Di brought back some sandwiches for my lunch and then, this afternoon, I read the remainder of my conservatory books, which were quite interesting. My ailment is strange. I have a slight cough, temperature, aches in my body and intense listlessness. Also the headache, which came from the combination of reading and temperature.