A satisfying experience reading the long HDC Full Council  meeting minutes after my orchestrated interventions and then supporting my local residents with their plans. Then some work on the conservatory before and after taking Debbie riding. NATO consider their response to Gorbachev’s arms reductions and flights in Germany are cancelled after six died in a military plane crash
Awoken early again this morning but hardly had any time to work in my office before it was time for breakfast. I received the minutes from the last Huntingdonshire District Council Full Council meeting this morning. There were over 17 pages of them as a result of my plan last month instead of the customary two or three! I also had a consultation note about an application to convert a Little Paxton bungalow for disabled use. I phoned the owners to get some details and then wrote a letter to the District Council in support of the application. Then 2 to 3 hours studying the Riverside Paper Mill plan and typing out a long document for the planning department with copies for local residents and other bodies. This took me up to and beyond lunch, but I then had a couple of hours fitting the security bolts and alarm contacts to the conservatory outside doors. Then tea and after horse-riding where Debbie Road was Gussy very well. This evening, I laid the lounge carpets back down and connected the alarm contacts there. The main news today was of the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, breaking off his world tour and cancelling his trip to Britain and Cuba. His reason was extensive and serious earthquake which is claimed the lives of between 25,000 and 50,000 people and injuring up 130,000.
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Thatcher was quick to support this decision to return home to avoid any embarrassment over the lack of consultation. NATO ministers meet today to discuss the Soviet moves and may have agreed a response to the eastern initiative. A military plane has crashed into a built-up area in Germany and flights have been cancelled for the time being as six people have been killed.