Bright and sunny day after a frosty start as I got Debbie and her friend Amy to help me clean the car and the garage before I then cleaned out the pond and adjusted its balance for winter storage and finally mowed the games lawn. A troubled Sunday lunch after which we attended the St James Church, harvest festival supper and barn dance. Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley re-elected as leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party and two men from a wrecked trawler swam 9 miles to be rescued off Penzance Cornwall today.
Had a lay in this morning after a rather restless night and Diana made the hot drinks for once on a Sunday. Another frost last night and sunny bright start to the day. Before it was warm enough to go out, I read yesterday’s newspapers and relaxed a while as my limbs and back was still weary from this last few days’ effort. Then out at 9:30am to vacuum the Range Rover, getting Debbie and her friend Amy to help me by sweeping out the garage which was still full of leaves. Pestered Di into giving me morning coffee and then started the job of cleaning the car.
The normal delinquent had left his car outside my house and so I had to stretch the hose away to reach most of the morning getting the car nicely clean and then I checked the swimming pool pH and put some acid in to get the balance right. Just to duck eggs this morning and the doves were very hungry for seed now that the night time to cold. A nice lunch of roast chicken which was a bit spoilt by the children’s misbehaviour with Daniel leading the fray as he did not want to go to the harvest Festival church service this afternoon. We had a few hours beforehand and I finished laying up the swimming pool before cutting the games lawn. I had to sweep the accumulated algae debris from the bottom, vacuum and then pump out to some five or six tiles below the top for the winter. More pool acid, the Algaecide, and then I got the boys to help me put on the winter cover. Though the weather is fine and still now, wind and rain are forecast for later in the week and the leaves will be falling heavily after the last few days frosts. The games lawn is full of top dressing in the drainage ditch furrows but mode well after some light raking. Time to go to church and, then after, we went to the Village Hall for a harvest festival supper and barn dance which we enjoyed thoroughly. Even Della took part in one dance before getting tired as it was late for her. News today is of Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley being re-elected as leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party at their conference start today. Two men from a wrecked trawler swam 9 miles to be rescued off Penzance Cornwall today.