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The conservatory construction work proceeds apace as I research Little Paxton manorial history all day before attending the Little Paxton Parish Planning Meeting tonight which was organised at my behest and endorsed just about all the proposals that I had made. The London Transport leaders resigned today as the Kings Cross Fire report castigates their organisation, the SNP make great gains in Glasgow Govan after opposing the Poll Tax and Nurses take industrial action in Wales and Birmingham. The Speaker of the West German parliament resigns over his comments appearing pro-Nazi
I slept well and was rested for my day’s activity. The Frost workmen were back at 9am and the pair of them put up the ring and cross rafters for the structure, cutting in to the outer skin of my cavity end wall for support. It looks quite huge. I worked on my history today, more particularly, the Manorial History of Little Paxton. I got out my new Doomsday edition editorial and read this and other sources to ‘gen up’ on manorial customs and tenure and then went through all of the information particular to Little Paxton and tried to put it in some sort of logical order. There is so much fragmentation that the task is very difficult to say the least. I worked at it all morning and afternoon, and ended up in some confusion and contradiction.
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I spent the day working on my manorial history of Little Paxton ready for Rosa Young’s visit on Friday as Frost & Co arrived with two teams of men to erect the conservatory frame. George Bush wins the US presidential election, defeating Dukakis quite convincingly and was congratulated by world leaders.
I was a bit late to bed again last night, but slept well enough and did not feel too bad this morning. I got washed and dressed in time for breakfast and pulled up Daniel for leaving his room so untidy. Today, and all day, I worked on the Manorial History of Little Paxton and typed into the word processor each and every transcription I have made of the Rolls entries. I then sorted them into date and type order so that the sequence of changes could be compared with the Victoria County History manorial research and that which I intend to do with Rosa Young on Friday. I had to break off to tend the doves and ducks, morning and afternoon, as Pete does not come to do the garden on Wednesday. The conservatory supplier, Frost & Co, arrived before lunch and delivered all of the wooden framing and then returned to start the erection.
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Some early morning administration after a restful night and then to collect Percy Meyer on the way to Huntingdon where we attended the planning appeal for the Eaton Meadow site. More work on our FOCUS newsletters and then off to brief the Southwest Cambs party on my HDC Council work. The House of Lords approved the plans for eye and ear test fees and the Chinese earthquake toll has risen to nearly 1000.
A better night’s sleep due to a 10:30pm bedtime. Was up and showered before Diana brought me morning tea and then read today’s paper and mail. Went through the press cuttings from the week’s local papers and then got ready in time to pick up Percy Meyer from Offord d’Arcy on the way to Huntingdon. Today, the appeal was due to be heard on the plan to build houses on the Eaton Meadows site and we had a good turnout of SLD and DOOM members to plead the case. This morning’s evidence was all in support of the plan. They had a QC to coordinate the pleas; and ‘experts’ on technical planning and landscaping issues try to win over the Appeal Inspector. Percy and I stayed until lunch and then left them to it.
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I was tired on this foggy morning after my late night but still spent the whole morning completing the FOCUS copy with colleagues coming round to check the final result. After all this, I cleared my office ready to get down to some history work as Frost & Co still plan to start building the conservatory on Wednesday. More controversial plans from the Tory government, this time concerning TV programming and broadcasting, but thousands of government employees strike in support of union colleagues being persecuted at GCHQ. A large earthquake in China kills 600 on their border with Burma.
I had gone to bed well after midnight and was tired as a result when woken at 7am. I still got up and down to breakfast with the others and then started the task of working with the computer to lay out the centrefold of my new FOCUS newsletters. It took me just about the whole morning to complete these and I printed them out for us to study at lunch whilst we ate – they are very good and easily made so due to the prior efforts of Bill Walston. This afternoon, I photocopied and filled in the forms and then prepared the artwork for the printers. Mike Pope and Percy Meyer come around and looked at the copy and found one or two small errors and then we took the chance of being together to do some planning before I got out to feed the ducks and doves.