A disorienting start to the day after shots from wild-fowlers in the field opposite work me up and I broke the bedside light and flooded the en-suite but then I settled down to sorting stones for my new pond despite Percy and Pat arriving to use my computer. Then to winterise our boats and listen to the news in which David John Evans awaits extradition for the murder of Anna Humphries as was IRA suspect Father Patrick Ryan whilst Welsh extremists are suspected of fire-bombing five London Estate offices
I was awoken today at 7:30am by shot guns firing in the meadows opposite, but they soon stopped. A rather problematical day which started with me knocking over my bedside light and having to spend a long-time re-assembling it. Then the sink overflowed wetting the ensuite carpet. Eventually own to a nice fried breakfast and then out to start work on the gravel pile. Using a ½ inch riddle, I started separating the larger stones from the smaller ones, washing the same with the hose and then transferring them by bucket to the pond. I used one of the conservatory windows to access the ponds without disturbing the new screed floors which were still ‘green’. The trouble was that there were two buckets of small stones to every one of the three-quarter ones. There is no way that the stones were three-quarter inch as ordered. During this process, Percy Meyer phoned and asked if they could come around and use our computer. I explained that this was a busy day and I could only spend 10 minutes with them, but this proved inadequate. To make a long story short, it was a rather unsatisfactory day which ended up with much of their data lost.
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This morning, Daniel and Gary Skinner washed my Range Rover and this afternoon we combined to put the winter cover on The Lady and then winched The Little Lady on its trolley up the slipway to its winter station. After all of this I then retired very tired to bed. The news today was of police finding the body of the missing school-girl, Anna Humphries, last seen three weeks ago walking home. The murder suspect, David John Evans, is in France awaiting extradition. One of the health unions, NUPE, has claimed that thousands of nurses are being cheated of their correct grades by forms being changed by National Health Service managers. The local health authority has confirmed that 10% of the forms had been changed as ‘corrections’. There is to be a day of protest tomorrow. The IRA suspect, Patrick Ryan, now in Ireland after Belgian courts refused his extradition to England, is awaiting the decision of the Irish courts. He has been released due to his hunger strike and the illegality in Belgium of forced-feeding. Five London estate offices were attacked with fire bombs last night and Welsh extremists are suspected of protesting against the sale of Welsh houses to the English for weekend cottages