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Canvassing today with Mike Pope and then welcoming Charles and Chrisula, who had come to visit who had come for tea, and taking Chas for a drive in the Rolls. The French Sealink crews return to work, but the ferry backlog is taking some time to clear. Six more Palestinians are dead at the hands of the Israeli troops. A new Church vs State controversy is in the making, as the Bishop of Durham, David Jenkins, describes Mrs Thatcher’s government as being ‘wicked’ with the benefit changes making the rich richer and the poor poorer in ‘morally wrong’ policies. A whole host of road deaths to mark the start of Easter.
Slept well enough and woke up early to get ready for breakfast in good time. Just plain cereal, as usual, and then I went to my office to sort out the mess and do a little financial paperwork before Diana left for St Neots. Then, later, Mike Pope arrived and we spent the morning sorting out the previous weeks canvass results and allocating the action items according to need. We decided against putting up the flag-boards today, as we should get help to do this from people less keen on canvassing and concentrate our own efforts on the most difficult tasks. Soon lunchtime. Percy Meyer had popped in for his canvass cards, but I was a bit short with him due to my disappointment over the lack of canvassing help. It seems that Michael Pope is the only one prepared to match the efforts that I am putting in. After lunch we rendezvoused and went canvassing again.
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April Fool’s Day – I trip in the Reliant to Paxton Wood Open Day in dry, but chilly weather but with a fair bit of sunshine, then back in time for the St James Church family service and then on to Cambridge in the Rolls Royce to collect my second election leaflets and then home for hot cross buns before back again to church for a sacred cantata about Jesus’ journey to the cross at Calvary by the St Ives singers. The Dover ferry peace talks break down and Israeli troops have killed two more Palestinians and injured 13 others in fresh unrest in the West Bank
An early start to the day, after getting my morning tea at dawn. I quickly showered, shaved and dressed and got Diana to help me set up the Range Rover at Paxton Woods for the day. I took it up and parked on the corner of the access road, was collected in the Rolls Royce and came home for breakfast. I then tended the birds, got Percy the Reliant ready and took the family over in that. We stomped round the woods for a while and found it very muddy. Not a great deal of primroses this year either. I chatted to a few people and then found Mike Pope and his relatives inside the wood. Then I gave a lift to some people from Booth Way, who had come to the woods without their boots. I took them home and back in Percy to collect them and it was then time to take my family back the same way. A hurried walk so as not to be late for the St James Church family service at 10.30am and we just about arrived in time. Peter Lewis did his best to make the service interesting, with the theme of removing walls that separate communities.