Planning my election campaign and the literature that is needed this morning and later this evening but breaking off for lunch with the family, with Debbie off at a party, and then welcoming Michael Pope and two new canvassers for a trip around Paxton Ward for familiarisation prior to next month’s canvassing. Further South African crackdowns on anti-apartheid groups, the death of a family of three in a Belfast house. In Nepal, nearly 100 people were killed in a football stadium stampede
Slept well enough after a late night and then spent the morning on my election preparations. Early telephone calls to Moira Biggins of St Neots, Michael Pope also and then John Mathewman of Cambridge to help obtain information and then I sketched out a budget and re-plan of the election timetable. Typed up the timetable and then, being late morning, I drove into St Neots to pay in some receipts and buy a job lot of letraset and coloured paper to try some artwork later. Di had to run Debbie across to a party at Huntingdon swimming pool, where they met Debbie’s old toddler friend, Laura Charles. Off to the Little Chef for a lunch without Debbie and then this afternoon I printed out an updated campaign report and budget etc for the arrival of Michael Pope and the two new canvassers who were coming.
When they arrived, I took them all on a tour around Little Paxton, Southoe and Diddington, in the daylight to give them their bearings for next month’s canvassing. Home for a lavish tea of prawns and then quite a job sorting out my desk this evening. Very late, I got down to the artwork for some election addresses and stayed up until the early hours printing out the result on yellow paper to see the effect. I am seeing Percy Meyer here tomorrow and John Mathewman on Tuesday and will see how it compares with what they are producing. The finished result was 500% better than anything the Alliance have put round before. No time for the TV news tonight, which was all about further South African crackdowns on anti-apartheid groups, the death of a family of three in a Belfast house, and an announcement by the Foreign Office that the Briton held in Libya, James Abra, arrested for spying, is to be freed. In Nepal, nearly 100 people were killed in a football stadium stampede during a hailstorm, which put the football crowd hazard of Europe into perspective.