A morning meeting to decide the route of a new playing field footpath, a visit to Avenue Fisheries to choose a fish and learn more about Mr Field senior’s stroke and then the St James Church Carol service after our roast beef lunch. An afternoon visit to Willington garden centre after which I managed to commission the pond ventura satisfactorily. Bad weather closing in on the Armenian earthquake region ends any rescue attempts, the NUM votes against an overtime ban and Neil Kinnock rules out an electoral pact with the SLD
A much better night after which I managed to get going a lot earlier. A nice fried breakfast and then along to the Little Paxton Playing Field for a meeting with the rest of the Parish Council Amenities Committee to decide the route of a new footpath. This took a full hour, after which I drove down to Avenue Fisheries and looked at the fish. Mr Field senior is at home for a trial visit but did not seem to know what day it is, which is sad. At least he was able to look at the fish through the window. His son showed me how to make a ventura, which he thinks I should use to increase my pond’s oxygen level. I also sorted through about 10 of the new Kahuku carp from the latest Japanese arrivals and picked a nice one with an even head pattern and stout body. It was some 22 inches long and cost £425 which fact I shall have to hide from Diana.
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Home to a lunch of roast beef and a couple of hours making up an extension lead for a few other chores. I tried to make the ventura but did not manage to make it work in the time available. It was then time to go to the St James’s Church Carol service which we managed to do. The church was full and the occasion nice, even if it did come as something of a disruption to my work. Another trip out afterwards to try to find a pipe joint which ended up at the Willington garden centre getting a watering can and a heater for the conservatory. Home for tea and then, this evening, I managed to commission the ventura satisfactorily and then wired up the alarm contacts for each window which took a couple of hours but worked at the first attempt. After this, I cleared up, thought apprehensively of the two painters coming tomorrow and then sat by my pond relaxing and writing up my journal. News tonight is of fading hopes of further survivors from the Armenian earthquake as the bad weather closes in and time runs out. There is now a move to flee the devastated region before the winter weather claims those out in the open. The National Union of Miners voted against implementing a ban on overtime and this has come as a disappointment to Arthur Scargill. Labour’s leader, Neil Kinnock, has come out against any electoral pact with the Social and Liberal Democrats, which was forecastable, but he does not rule out changes in the electoral system.