I spent some time in bed being friendly with Diana on a milder morning after another chilly night but with less frost than yesterday. The Koi had survived the night and the Ohgon fed today. I was working on my history book and photographs today, hosting Percy Meyer, this evening when I attended a good Village Hall Committee meeting where we agreed to provide changing facilities for the village sports teams and I was asked to be a Trustee. Today, the £40 million bank robbers were sentenced to 22 years, Wandsworth prison officers were striking and their inmates rioting and Sir Geoffrey Howe announces his Gibraltar troop reductions
I went to bed at the same time as Diana last night for a change and we were suitably friendly as a result. I slept long and well and was slow to wake at 7am. It was another chilly night but not so much frost as yesterday. The Koi had survived the night quite well and I got the Ohgon to feed today and painted his wound again with Mercurochrome. This morning was spent working on my history book. I was scanning in several of the scrapbook items and making lists of the photographs for copying at some time. Di was back to provide lunch for me and then I carried on this afternoon, being interrupted by Percy Meyer who came round for some photocopying and to buy some raffle tickets. I worked on until this evening, when I attended the Village Hall Committee meeting which went very well. They agreed to support a village football team by letting them use the hall for changing on a temporary basis and to support the project of getting a sports pavilion for use by the football team and other sporting teams in the village. I am also to be asked to become one of the three Trustees of the Village Hall as well.
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Today was reasonably mild but there was not a great deal of sun to warm the conservatory. The news today is the trial of the largest ever bank robbery (£40 million) where the perpetrators were sentenced to 22 years. At Wandsworth Prison, police had to take over from prison officers in a dispute and the prisoners are rioting in protest. The strike follows new roster and morning rules which, the prison officers say, do not leave enough men on duty. RAF Molesworth was decommissioned today, having had its nuclear missiles and launchers removed, and the doors were thrown open to the press. Sir Geoffrey Howe duly announced the troop reductions in Gibraltar that have been leaked in the last few days which will be a blow to their economy but the islanders are hoping that tourism will make up the difference.