After a hot and uncomfortable night, another warm and sunny day spending the morning on my press cuttings and then the afternoon on my administration and financial affairs. Debbie was horse-riding this morning and Daniel working on his speedboat before doing his chemistry schoolwork this evening.
In the aftermath of the Thames pleasure boat sinking, the death toll has reached 265 suspected and another ecological disaster takes place with a massive oil spill at a Mersey oil terminal.
I was hot and bothered last night, when we could only suffer from the temperature and stillness of the air. I went to bed with a headache and hoped that would ease but I had to get up again in the early hours and take a couple of pain-killing tablets. This morning, I worked at sticking in the last six weeks of press cuttings into my little and and personal scrapbooks.
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Lunch and then this afternoon on paperwork and the computerising of my financial investment and income salaries which took me up to darkness. Deb was horse-riding this morning and Daniel working on his speedboat; connecting up the electrics on the mariner 20 hp engine. He is very pleased with it and had to pay my price by doing some revision for his chemistry schoolwork this evening. I let him off later when Jason Chambers came round to see the boat. I had quite a few calls today from colleagues and the press on a whole range of matters.
In the aftermath of the Thames pleasure boat sinking, the death toll has reached 265 suspected and politicians are already promising measures for better record-keeping and safety drills. It seems that the dredger and the crews were both going against the tide through Southwark Bridge when the dredger hit the cruiser stern skewed it round and ran over it.
There is another ecological disaster with a massive oil spill at a Mersey oil terminal. The marshes are threatened and with them the liver birds after which the city of Liverpool was named. At least BP have accepted full responsibility for the spill and the funding the disaster recovery effort. Another warm and sunny day during which I had the lawn sprinklers working steadily as the grass is rapidly going brown.