Some early morning work on The Lady and then a bicycle shop visit for spares before taking my Rolls Royce for use as Linda’s wedding car with my video recorder also lent for taking pictures of the ceremony. US presidential issues head the news, but the prison service crisis at home is more worrying but greater news still at home as Daniel does well in his Maths exam and the girls win swimming certificates.
Awoke quite early and then had to rush downstairs as the fire alarm had triggered, sounding the sirens, but for no apparent reason. After breakfast, I went out to The Lady and screwed on three front windscreens. It had been raining again and we had heavy showers later, but no leaks were apparent, which is a blessing. Then in to town with Daniel in the Range Rover to the Eynesbury bicycle shop, where I bought a puncture outfit and several accessories and tools to fit a bell and panniers to my bike. Then home, where Daniel and I tried twice to fix a puncture in Debbie’s rear tyre, but there was still a leak, if a slow one, when we had finished. Lunch and a little time to fit my own pannier before it was time to get ready to go to Linda’s wedding. The Rolls Royce looked really smart in its white ribbons and I did my bit for Ian and Linda’s wedding for the afternoon and evening. I took Linda and her two bridesmaid daughters – Emma and Holly – there, one returned with Ian and Linda Richardson together. The car was the centre of attraction and provided the ideal setting for all of the wedding photographs.
I also lent them my video recorder and a friend used it to make another record of the day. They had a good turnout of guests – both friends and relatives – for both the Registrar service at Huntingdon Registry Office and after at their home in Hall Close, Little Paxton. This evening, I completed the work on my bike, tended the ducks and doves and then Daniel and I leathered off the Rolls, which had been nicely rinsed in a sharp shower. One of my oldest doves died today. It had been unsteady for days and I realised it would not survive. News today is of the continuing American row over Senator Quayle’s war record and his perceived unsuitability as a Vice Presidential running mate for Republican leader George Bush. A rising crisis in the prison service, as industrial action leads to more prisoners billeted at police stations all over the country, in poor conditions for detention. The US enquiry on the shooting down of the Iranian airbus admits errors on the part of the US military of such incompetence that it is worrying for all sides. Lester Piggott’s wife has 7 broken ribs and a fractured collar bone after falling from a horse and it rolling on her. Her husband, the ex-champion jockey, is still in remand on charges of tax evasion. An Ulster bomb blast injures two policemen, one of them a woman who loses an eye. Inflation is back up to 4.8%, but the stock exchanges shrug off the news and put in small rises. Daniel got his additional maths AO result today – a ‘B’ – which was very good and we are all proud of him. Della got a 5 metre swimming badge and Debbie one for 400 metres at the end of their two week swimming lessons and so they all did well.