I was stuck inside doing finance work and reading on a marvellously warm and mild day which the builders used to good effect laying building blocks around the pool surround and I was able to join them alter to top dress the riverside lawns before going to the St Neots Museum Committee leaving Daniel at my Apple Mac. An Indian air crash kills 150 people as the latest in a spate of such incidents and the Monopolies Commission has ruled against the pricing and competition policies of British Gas
To bed very late last night, after watching an interesting TV programme on the work of John Cleese. I still had to get up early this morning, as I had to be ready for a visit by Percy Meyer to collect a few things and do some photocopying. As it turned out, I had hardly finished my breakfast when he arrived. I then read the Financial Times at length after I had a call from my stockbroker, on to the US, but keen to advise me that I shall hold onto my Glaxo shares for a while longer as the FT100 is going to rise to 1900 in the near future. The bricklayer and mates were here today, putting in the last single layer of building blocks on the pool surround and then starting the brick walls above damp proof course level. The plumber and mate also arrive later to start on the pool piping but had to leave again when they found they had the wrong fittings to connect to the bottom drain. I raked the leaves off the river garden lawns and then put down a layer of Autumn Top Lawn to add fertiliser and Carbaryl to kill the worms and leather jackets.
By the time I had gone over the layer with a hose to rinse it in it was almost lunchtime. Di went to the Playschool ‘Bring and Buy Morning’ and was a little late back and so I had boiled the kettle and warmed the oxtail soup that had been left out. Today was marvellously warm and mild with a light southerly breeze, and it seemed more like spring or summer than the autumn day it is. A week more of this and the conservatory will be undercover for the finishing trades. This afternoon, I did some accounts work, paying bills and reconciling bank accounts which was work much overdue. After tea, I cleared up my office before leaving Daniel at my Apple Mac and going off to a meeting of the St Neots Museum Committee. The Home Secretary has issued censorship orders under the Broadcasting Acts to prevent BBC and ITV carrying items featuring Sinn Fein and other political wings of the Irish militant organisations. An air-liner has crashed in India and 150 people have died. There has been a spate of air accidents recently as yet another country has its worst-ever incident. The Monopolies Commission has ruled against the pricing and competition policies of British Gas and new rules will now have to be adopted by the Industry Secretary for them.