I spent a full day working in my conservatory after a much better night, commissioning the spotlights and switching them on before putting up a trellis, installing planters and skimming the pond with the fish looking healthy and feeding well. It has been revealed that water highly polluted with aluminium was delivered to residents of North Cornwall last July and The Post newspaper of Eddy Shah has folded again. Rescue efforts in Armenia founder through poor coordination and a tonne of cannabis is seized in West London
I stayed up very late last night and was also awake in the early hours because I left my electric blanket on. Not a very restful night sleep! I received my second printing quotation in this morning’s mail and it looked like I will have to settle for March for printing and that they will cost £7 each for 1000 off (but £5 each for more). I spent the day working on my conservatory. The morning wiring the track for the spotlights and just about had them working on the ground by the time I had to take the family for lunch. In fact, there was more than the family because Stephen and Gary joined us. Gary came to collect our old TV and cabinet and we were glad to see the back of them and he seemed most grateful. This afternoon, I put up the spotlights and it made a fine sight.
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The painter was here today and finished the decoration of the outside and now has the rafters and post to do on Monday and Tuesday. I worked on after tea and put up the trellis work on the rear wall and then secured three half-round planters to the dwarf walls and planted them up with cactus. Ended up by sweeping and cleaning up the floor before wiping the tiles over. Skimmed yet more off the top of the pond and then topped up the level for good measure. The fish is still looking healthy and feeding well but I must find a way of keeping the surface clear. The news tonight is of a new health shock as polluted water, 6,000 times too high in aluminium, is delivered to 20,000 people living in North Cornwall. It happened last July when 20 tons of aluminium sulphate was ‘pumped into the wrong tank by accident’. Eddy Shah’s latest newspaper venture, The Post, has folded again, which is sad. A woman of 62 has been rescued alive after 10 days in Armenia but the story of returning rescue teams is of lives lost through poor coordination by the Soviet authorities. A tonne of cannabis has been seized during a drugs raid in West London.