A little lay in on a milder morning, where Daniel and Gary spent most of the day working on his boat. I spent entire day working on my history typesetting, punctuated by rests to tend my fish and plants, giving my improving Ohgon another salt bath and the pond a partial water change, even though the nitrite and ammonia levels are fine despite the high level of feeding. The diplomatic row with Iran will continue now that the Ayatollah Khomeini has said that the author Salman Rushdie cannot be forgiven, despite his apology. Neil Kinnock attacks the Thatcher government’s handling of electricity and water privatisation and failing to improve drinking water standards
I had a little lay in this morning, but still had time to feed my carp before Diana had finished frying a nice breakfast. The entire day working on my history typesetting, punctuated by rests to tend my fish and plants at regular intervals. The Ohgon is still poorly. I gave him another salt bath this morning and he may be a bit better as at least he came up for a couple of food pellets. I also gave the pond a partial water change and tested the nitrite and ammonia levels which are fine despite the high level of feeding I am giving them.
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John Law popped round to see me this afternoon with the latest photographic prints and he will now proceed to touch them up for publication. I finished the Paxton Hall chapter this evening and now I must decide whether to do some paperwork and financial transactions or continue history writing instead. The news today is of confirmation by the Ayatollah Khomeini that the author Salman Rushdie cannot be forgiven, even if he repents. Now a diplomatic row will follow. The Labour opposition are continuing their admirable attack on the Thatcher government which has been building momentum in recent months. Neil Kinnock attacks Thatcher’s suppose it concern for the environment stop the electricity Minister, Cecil Parkinson, is also denying that the so-called privatisation of the industry will cost £91 million that the opposition claims. The environment minister, Tony Howard, is also been forced to admit that the British drinking water will only meet European standards of purity by the middle of the decade following 1992; but still plans to have a November water sell-off. The weather today was quite mild, and Daniel and Gary spent most of the day working on Daniel’s boat.