Both Della and I were slow to rise after being late to bed. With good news about my conservatory building regulations approval, I worked on my Little Paxton church history today. My Koi carp were examined, and some treatments prescribed. An evening SLD committee meeting was a bit shambolic. The Guildford car bombing convictions are going to the Court of Appeal, a row has broken out over moving Social Security jobs out of London with staff protesting. Junior hospital doctors are being chronically overworked, and 500 jobs go at Dagenham after Ford Motors vindictively transfers the Sierra production to Belgium after last February strikes
I was late again to bed last night and then my mind was full of problems with my history book that kept me awake for a while. I was again reluctant to get up but made it to the breakfast table before the others had left. Little Della was also still active late last night and then dead to the world this morning. I had a call from Frost conservatories to say that they wanted to come and install the bracing members to my conservatory. By coincidence, I also heard from the District Council that my Building Regulations approval had come through based upon these modifications. I worked on my history today; wrote an opening section on the origins of the church in Little Paxton, and then struggled this afternoon to digitise and edit some old pencil drawings to use as illustrations.
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This morning, the conservatory people fitted the braces and the fish expert came to look at my Koi carp. The small one has got dropsy which will probably be fatal, though Steve will come back with some bath and things tomorrow to try to save him. He thinks my Ohgon is all right but he was worried by the heavy breathing and gill movements of the Kohaku. It has probably got gill fluke and will need a chemical bath tomorrow to. This evening, I was at the local SLD committee meeting which was a bit of a frenetic shambles with all being keen on the County Council elections but lacking the time to deal with the matters arising. Home to bed a little earlier than of late. The news tonight is of the much-celebrated wrongly-convicted victims of the Guildford car bombing investigation who many have said were jailed wrongly. Their case is now going to the Court of Appeal. A row has broken out over the government plans to move 1,000 Social Security jobs out of London with 21 offices work being transferred. Now, most London Social Security offices have closed down in protests that the back up to the counter services will not be good enough. The row over overworking amongst junior hospital doctors is growing. Some are getting only a few hours’ sleep night after night. 500 jobs are to go at Dagenham, as Ford motors transfer their Sierra production line to Belgium in retaliation for last February’s labour strike