After a lay in this morning, with Daniel cleaning the Range Rover, I was tending the conservatory plants and fish. I found the carp much improved and the nitrite levels fallen dramatically, as we fed the fish less and the chemical gravel filter started to function effectively. I was working today on my chapter on Little Paxton church and spent much of it on the diagram detailing its development and layout. The day was overshadowed by three of Daniel’s friends arriving late for Sunday lunch and being sent home without it. Riot police have broken up a protest in Prague and 100 passengers were killed when two trains crashed in Bangladesh.
I had a lay in this morning and then I got myself showered and dressed whilst Diana cooked the Sunday fried breakfast. Daniel cleaned the Range Rover, whilst I attended the conservatory plants and fish. I watered all the plants, which I hope will appreciate the nitrates from the fish as fertiliser. I then emptied another few inches of water from the pond and topped it up with fresh. The large carp is now breathing properly through both skills and started to do this as I was watching. Later, I measured the nitrite levels with the test kit and saw that it had fallen drastically. This cannot be entirely due to the water dilation and I think that the chemical filter started to work on only been overwhelmed by the fish being fed too much too soon. For the rest of the day, I worked on my chapter on the Little Paxton St James’s Church.
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I found that I had a variety of information on file about the church building, the church lands and charities and the vicars and churchwardens of the past and so I will not go short of material. The trouble was that I then spent the rest of the day scanning and clearing up a diagram of the church development and layout. Another late bedtime at the end of a trying day. Diana had expected three of Daniel’s friends to come to Sunday lunch and they disgraced themselves by being late and were sent home which rather spoiled the rest of the day for Daniel and the rest of us. The news today is of a protest in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where riot police broke it up. They were commemorating the anniversary of the invasion and ‘protest’ suicide of a young student of the time. In Ulster, another man is shot dead across the border in Donegal. In Bangladesh, more than 100 passengers were killed when two trains crashed head- at high speed.