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A rather unpleasant trip to the dental hygienist after which we enjoyed morning coffee, some shopping in St Neots, and then I took Diana for lunch at the Tempsford anchor and an afternoon trip to Willington garden centre to buy hanging baskets, plants and other things. A more relaxed evening, my computer being away for repair. Another Boeing crashes, this time into a mountain over the Azores, killing 1- 200 people, and Edwina Currie makes few friends during her grudging appearance at the Select Committee.
I was later to bed than I intended last night and therefore felt quite tired today. I managed to make breakfast with the family but then had to join Di for a trip to the dentist’s in St Neots. This was necessary for treatment by the hygienist who scraped our teeth with a drill attachment and then polished them with a felt pad fitted to the same drill. The girl was quite rough, as she always is, and the high-pitched whine and vibration was almost as unpleasant as having our teeth filled. We recovered at the Rendezvous Coffeehouse afterwards, avoiding the Harvest Bakery in the High Street as the road was up again from the bridge to the centre and the equipment and mess would not make for a very relaxing site through the window!
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A warm and mild day in Paxton such that I cleaned and tidied the conservatory but there were storms, wind and rain in Inverness where a rail bridge collapsed. I carried on the tidying, with my office the next target, until it was time to collect Debbie from school and take her horse-riding, which she did well if slowly. Di took Della swimming and forgot the pancakes and then this evening to watch the HDC Policy Committee meeting at Pathfinder House. Edwina Currie agreeing at last to attend the Select Committee on Health and a new campaign to apprehend drunken drivers is launched with new laws planned as one in five accidents involved consumption of alcohol
I had not had a full night’s sleep when I was woken up at 7am and could hardly get up either and so Di and I pledged to have an early night tonight. There was no computer and so no history work today; and so, I did some important jobs that had been building up. First, I sorted the conservatory out. I put the two fish in the large tank with combined water volume to buffer extremes of temperature and to keep the remaining tank off the hot central floor area. They seemed happier with the company anyway and a cover eliminated the chances of them jumping out. I got the temperature down to 73 to 74°F in the end. The small fish in our pond are now very active and hungry and so looking very much better – even if they are a little shy. Having taken away the other tank, I then decided to clean out the conservatory, removing the builders’ dust and washing the floor. Another warm day and so I open the lantern windows for ventilation as the tank temperature stabilised.
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A very warm day for February that caused me problems for my Koi over-heating in the isolation tanks whilst I had constant interruptions and computer problems before successfully backing up my files and taking the AppleMac over to Cambridge for repair. Charles Frost visited and agreed that the conservatory struts needed to be changed and neighbour John Law came to make photographic copies of all my remaining plates from the Little Paxton scrapbook and the Norris Museum loan set
I had a fair night sleep but was still struggling to make breakfast on time. Today was the last day with my computer before putting it in to be repaired and so I spent the day trying to work on it. Unfortunately, I had been working until 10:30am when it crashed, and I lost my morning’s labour. I had been interrupted by Joan wanted to know how Pete should set up the mole trap and, when I did a demonstration, it snapped and vibrated the desk so that the computer crashed! I spent an hour retracing my footsteps and then Charles Frost arrived to look at the conservatory struts and agreed that they needed to be changed. Then, at lunchtime, the builders arrived and spent this afternoon relaying four or five of the pool coping stones. Finally, John Law got here at 2:30pm and we spent two hours together photographing all of my remaining plates from the Little Paxton scrapbook and the Norris Museum loan set.
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I slept well, despite my bad cold, and then settled down on a mild and sunny day to scanning diagrams and illustrations for my Paxton Park chapter and then spending the afternoon and evening editing it after a fine beef lunch. Debbie was worn out walking around the Little Paxton Pit Nature Reserve with the Law family and I received help from Mr Field with my larger Koi. The last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan, the Wandsworth prisons dispute still grinds on and private water company prices rise by 30 to 50% this year infuriating the water minister, Michael Howard
I slept well enough, though still suffering from a bad cold. We laid in a while and then Di got up late to get the fried breakfast. After this, I settled down in my office and did some more scanning of history documents until lunch , compiling the rest of the diagrams and illustrations for my Paxton Park chapter. Di cooked an honest beef lunch with meat we had bought from the Eaton Socon butchers which was very tasty and tender. The weather was mild and sunny today, bringing out several families in the village to walk along The Haylings. This afternoon and evening, I started to edit my former version of the Paxton Park chapter and introduced the new text and illustrations.
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