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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.
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A useful visit to see Mr Les Forscutt to borrow more of his 1849 Rix Little Paxton pencil sketches and then back home to carry on reading up about electronic publishing before lunch. The bricklayers were continuing to work on my new conservatory but an HDC Building Plans rejection is cause for concern. News of the USSR making a historic pledge to release all the ‘political’ prisoners by the New Year, which is good news but, in South Africa, the extreme right-wing party is obtaining success in the local elections which is bad news and a blow against the cause of racial integration.
Up on time for breakfast for a change and so I could chase up the children to tidy their bedrooms before the meal. Read the paper and it was then time to go and see the old gentleman in St Neots who has so much history material Mr Les Forscutt. He lent me more of the Rix Little Paxton pencil sketches of 1849 to get copies off. He is always so helpful and friendly and, apart from his common interest in history, he is also a supporter of my political party! Home by 10.30am where I found Di with three ladies and nine child visitors which was quite a houseful. At least the children were very well behaved. I read a bit more of my electronic publishing books until lunch and again after until, at 2:15pm, I felt able to conduct a few expediting phone calls. First, to my Rolls Royce insurance claim people to try in vain to get the balance of my money settled. Then to chase up the development of my camera film left two weeks ago in Huntington.
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An early start to the day with Debbie and her friend Helen running around and then the morning working on my Comart computer updating my Little Paxton Pre-War history chapter. A trip to Cambridge marred with traffic and parking issues but some good reference books bought from Heffers as a compensation. Quite a good SLD meeting this evening with the priority on campaigning. Chancellor Lawson accused of cheating by the opposition. A big hurricane in The Philippines has claimed 550 people and made 60,000 homeless
A little late to bed and then awoken by the girls running around 6 o’clock in the morning. Debbie enjoys her friends visits but I must admit to being glad Helen was picked up this morning at the end of a hectic 24-hour stay! I tried to ignore all else around me today and worked with my Comart computer this morning updating my Little Paxton pre-war history section from the comments I received on the consultation copies. I was quite engrossed in it by lunchtime and then we had to go to Cambridge this afternoon. So much lorry and car traffic on the A45 on the way there. How they can think of putting a new ‘urban village’ on this road I really cannot understand. Once there, even more trouble in parking but I dropped off the family and waited for a space in the Round Church Car Park which took half an hour. Still left me an hour to spend in Heffers and at the Cambridge Computer Store.
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A mixed day reading and acting on a range of items with one positive outcome being that The St Neots Museum Director will review my Prehistoric History manuscript. There is another row and more chaos at the Heysel trial where defence lawyers walk out, Lester Piggott has been released after one year of his three years jail sentence for a £3 million tax fraud and the stock exchanges around the world are slipping back after the recent increase and so I take profits on Glaxo.
Had gone late to bed last night and I was really quite tired when waking up this morning. Still carried on and spent a mixed day reading and acting on a range of items. Debbie had her friend Helen Cranston arriving at 715 and they played together all day. Della was not too bad about that. Daniel and I worked on the Apple Mac this morning and worked out how to use much of the Word 3.0 package including MailMerge and graphics edits. A call to Bill Walston answered a hatful of queries that we had amassed. The builders worked on today, finishing the floor preparation to the satisfaction of the visiting building Inspector and then concreting it later in the day. This afternoon, the children were besieging my office with a desire to draw pictures on the Apple Mac and were quite a distraction.