Debbie successfully mastered Sundance, overcoming her nervousness
Debbie successfully mastered Sundance, overcoming her nervousness

After a poor night with my cold and worrying about Debbie’s Sundance, I visited Fiona at the riding stables to discuss the problem which she put down to lack of exercise and a controlling reign and this proved correct later when Debbie successfully mastered Sundance, overcoming her nervousness. Later, to hear progress from the committee about finding a site for the new St Neots Museum. Deadlock remains in the national prison dispute with London and the Isle of Wight presenting problems, another Belfast City Centre bomb attack injures a policeman, more checks are proposed for Boeing airliners and the London Stock Exchange has its first fall after world-wide profit-taking.

I had a very poor night again, with my elevated temperature and cold to cope with. It was late in the night before I could get to sleep and so I did not want to wake up this morning and was late for breakfast. I was also worrying about Debbie’s horse-riding and her pony Sundance. After a slow and snuffly wash and shave, I set off to see Fiona at the riding stables to discuss our concerns. She reassured me that it was Sundance lacking exercise and being frisky and the same time not having its controlling reign – the martingale. Whilst there, I also screwed on the pony’s new water bucket and sprayed his name onto this and his feeding bowl as well. Then to St Neots, where I had a haircut and bought a new water purifying filter jug as well. This afternoon, I worked on Percy Meyer’s next Buckden Focus layout for his County Council Ward and finished the editing of the articles, though the layout of the three derivatives will take most of tomorrow to do. Debbie went with Lisa Drake again to the stables and, under Fiona’s supervision, got into the saddle and mastered the pony, which was very brave of her as she was still very nervous.

** PRESS "Read More" BELOW for the complete story **

I went to the St Neots Museum committee meeting this evening and was pleased to see progress on finding a site for the museum in St Neots, which had been the main stumbling block until now. The news tonight is of continued deadlock in the prison dispute in London and now with the Isle of Wight jail refusing to accept in-mates. Neil Kinnock has dismissed Austin Mitchell, a member of his frontbench team, for taking a position as interviewer with the Sky TV channel. There has been a bomb attack in Belfast city centre and a policeman has been injured. After recent surges on the London Stock Exchange, there was the first fall today and this reflected profit-taking around the world. There are more checks specified for Boeing airliners after several faults have been found in their electrical systems and these now apply to all UK Boeing planes.