After getting the gardener to plant my new conifers, and receiving more plants from Percy and Nigel, I drove to Cambridge to collect my Apple scanner and used it this evening for scanning documents and pictures. Together with Daniel, I rearrange the furniture to make the conservatory suitable for dining before he helped me commission the Apple scanner. The flight recorder boxes on the Pan Am Lockerbie crash showed nothing abnormal but Transport Secretary, Paul Channon, has met criticism for choosing to go on holiday at this time
I slept well and then rose to shower, shave and have a modest cereal breakfast. I caught the gardener and asked him to plant the two large conifers from the tubs and this took him most of the morning as the ground was full of bricks and rubble! I then settled down to some financial paperwork but was soon interrupted by Percy Meyer who called with a couple of plants for my conservatory – a Black Hamburg grape vine and an umbrella plant. We sat and had our coffee whilst feeding the fish which was nice, then back to work. I first planned and then calculated my tax payments on behalf of the children’s trust, then worked on my other payments, bank account and credit card statements which took me all morning and some of the afternoon. I then set off by car to do a number of delivery and collection errands. To Cambridge, where I collected the Apple scanner; then to Nigel Smith’s to deliver Christmas presents for my godchildren and to collect two more plants for my conservatory – a pineapple amongst them.
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I tried to collect the scrapbook from Mr Ramply and a bale of straw from the Woodbridge’s, but they were all out. Home for tea and then got the boys help in rearranging the house furniture. We took the table from the dining room and put it in the conservatory and then brought down a single bed plus Daniel’s bed/settee to make the dining room into a nice bedroom for my Mum and Dad when they come. Later this evening, Daniel and I commissioned the Apple scanner and it seemed to work well if a bit slowly for high resolution work. The news tonight is of the air crash aftermath. The flight recorder boxes had been recovered and show nothing abnormal before coming to a complete stop and there is no immediate evidence of sabotage. Transport Secretary, Paul Channon, has met criticism for choosing to go on holiday at this time. An 11pm retirement after a long day. Christmas now upon us and my large Kahuku was actually feeding today and the fish are settling down nicely.