More investigation of the Apple Mac publishing packages and then off to Huntingdon to collect campaign photos for this week’s press releases which I then delivered to Huntingdon and St Ives before driving on to Sandy to collect my pond liner from Avenue Fisheries. More work on my History book this evening organising into folders. My press campaign is rattling the Tories and, nationally, they are failing to increase Child benefits in line with inflation and the UK trade figures are the worst quarterly return in British history. Three people have been found guilty of conspiring to murder the Northern Ireland secretary, Tom King
Awake quite early this morning and sat in bed reading up further on the Apple Mac publishing packages. Breakfast with the others as I read today’s Hunts Post and tried to ignore the children all playing up. Di took Debbie and Daniel to each of their friends, leaving Della for whom Cary come to play as company. I read the mail and paper and then made some phone calls to chase a few things. I was relieved that my black-and-white photos were ready at Robinsons of Huntingdon and so I made plans to collect them this afternoon and drop certain of them off at the local press with this week’s press releases. Worked on my history editing this morning and Percy arrived to do some photocopying as well. Lunch and then, after preparing my press releases, I went to set off in the Range Rover only to find it unlocked, the headlights on and the battery run down! They had been a rainstorm this morning and I had forgotten that she had used the lights. Had to take the Rolls-Royce and set off on a long round trip, first to Huntingdon to collect the photos, then to Pathfinder House to collect two copies of my conservatory building regulations approval. Dropped off the Hunts Post releases in Huntingdon, then went across to St Ives to do the same for the Town Crier.
Across the long country route to Sandy to collect my pond liner from Avenue Fisheries and then up the A1 to Tempsford to give them one copy of the Huntingdon District Council letter to Frost’s. I really do not know what will happen over the approvals but at least their technical specialist is back at work and will talk to the consultant architect. Home rather late and decided to drive on and pick up Debbie from West Perry myself so that Di could carry on getting the tea. I went via St Neots to drop off more press release copies on the way. Home rather tired of all this running around in time to put the ducks away and have tea a scan of this week’s local papers which shows our party is getting more than our fair share and now the St Neots Tories are fighting amongst themselves. This evening, I worked on and finished the edits to my pre-war Little Paxton chapter unless I get more responses from some chasing letters that I have sent out. I had time tonight to clear up my office a little and divide my outstanding history material into nine sections of a folder and store all of that already dealt with. The news today is of the government’s announcements on Social Security benefits. Child Allowances are not being increased in line with inflation for the second successive year. They hope that by increasing the allowance for means tested benefits although they do not amount to the £206 million saved. Pensions etc would be increased with inflation as usual. Three people have been found guilty of conspiring to murder the Northern Ireland secretary, Tom King, by a majority jury verdict of 10 to 2. They are two men and a woman. The two trapped whales are nearly free of the ice layers due to the energies of the Eskimos, the US forces and now a Russian icebreaker the UK trade figures announced for this month or an improvement on last but complete the worst quarterly return in British history.