After a nice breakfast, a survey of our poster boards found a number of them had been attacked again along Gordon Road and Mill Lane. Michael and I spent the next hour rectifying them and we also spoke to a community policeman. Then with the family to the St James’s Church family service, walking in the sunshine there and to the Little Chef in Southoe for lunch, recruiting more poster board sites in the way. I decided to let Des and Celia concentrate on Great Gransden for his personal vote whilst concentrating other helpers in Buckden Ward for Percy as the result seemed to be neck and neck
I slept well and was up early to my breakfast with the others. A nice fried one at that. Then out to survey the poster boards and found a number attacked again – this time along Gordon Road and Mill Lane. I called round to see Michael Pope and we spent the next hour to rectifying the displays together. We also spoke to the community policeman for Eynesbury – PC Doddle – who comes from Little Paxton and cycles there every day and we are further resolved to get a Little Paxton village bobby approved with the senior police management. Back home, changed, and off with Diana and the girls to the St James’s Church for the family service. We walked there, as the sun had come out in the day was quite pleasant. We walked and afterwards to the Little Chef on the Great North Road, but because it was close, we had to keep walking to the one at Southoe where we had a nice lunch.
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En route, I spoke to some Southoe residents and got their agreement put up a couple of signboards on the main A1 which will help Percy Meyer even more. Once back, I changed and went off to erect these and then delivered the outlying leaflets for Southoe, where we have decided to get as many votes as possible. Home for the meeting with the other activists, where we agreed the arrangements for polling day and the work programme between now and then. We will let Des and Celia concentrate on Great Gransden to get every last vote based on friendship, relationship and support. Percy will concentrate with his helpers and offered in Buckden Ward (with me working a little in Southoe as well). We are ahead according to the Richmond Formula, but the Tories also feel that they are winning and we could lose the Buckden Ward by a small margin which would be galling. Tonight, I tended the swimming pool, and then phoned round likely people to help me on polling day. Another 2 to 3 books sold today and Diane and I spent an hour making up some more to send out this week