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I was recovering from feeling cold with a headache, after yesterday’s eyestrain, as I investigated the underfloor heating controls in the conservatory and fed my Koi on their antibiotic soaked pellets. Amongst calls on my answering machine, was one leading to a photo opportunity with the Ramply’s former campaign for getting Rampl(e)y Lane correctly named. Daniel gets an O-level equivalent pass in French today, but Debbie is riding school is due to close. The USSR starts withdrawing tactical weapons from Eastern Europe but the deportation of fugitive Viraj Mendis has been lost in the Court of Appeal today and the South African Premier, PW Botha, has had to step down after a stroke
This was the day which, despite my best intentions, did not produce very much progress on my history book. I woke feeling cold with a headache. After the eye-strain of yesterday’s screen-work, and the open door of my cold bedroom on a very frosty night, it took a few hours for the paracetamol tablets to remove the nuisance. I started late for breakfast and then went into the conservatory and played around with the under-floor heating controls, believing that the temperature sensor was not behaving itself. Sure enough, I found that the sensor had only been loosely taped to the pipe and so I experimented and ended up using copper wire to make a better bond and contact. I tried feeding the Koi on their antibiotic soaked pellets today and all except the Kohaku took them. That one is not feeding at the moment.
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Another slow start, this time on a very frosty morning, to find one of my Koi carp had died. Di emptied the playroom and started its decoration as I worked on my Little Paxton Church history for most of the day before attending Southoe Parish Council meeting and given the Rev Peter Lewis sight of my work. An outrageously violent action by 50 police officers today breaking down church doors and cutting away a Sri Lankan refugee from a radiator, who had sought sanctuary, caused a crowd demonstration outside Manchester police station and a row in the House of Commons. Convict accidentally released from prison by ‘administrative error’ knifed a young woman to death in the London Underground.
I had the same trouble getting up this very frosty morning but still made the table with the others for breakfast. I stopped off at the conservatory on my trek around the house and was distressed to see my ‘dropsy’ fish dead. It had not lasted the night in the isolation tank full of salt water and I was hardly surprised. I really think we should have been treating it for a bacterial infection rather than dropsy. The fish man dropped off another ultraviolet light unit last night and I spent a couple of hours commissioning it this morning. Di had emptied the playroom, set up everything in the dining room for the girls, and started the decoration of the playroom first. I started back on my church history but it was soon time for lunch, but I worked all afternoon to complete the chapter on St James’s church building itself.
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I had an earlier night which was counter-productive as I was restless in the early hours but then I was up early to tend my fish pond before starting work on my Little Paxton church history chapter. Stephen Field arrive later and treated my fish for dropsy and gill fluke after they had succumbed to these conditions after the nitrite water shock. A good Environmental Services Committee meeting this evening with recommendations overturned so that St Ives bypass will now be named Harrison Way and post meeting chat with Ross McKay who may come across from the Conservatives.
I had an earlier night for once, but then found that I was restless and awake in the early hours and had to get up early. I was dressed and showered half an hour before breakfast and tended my fish and their pond by pumping out some water for a change and starting its refilling. I started work on my chapter on Little Paxton St James’s Church again and it all went very well until my morning coffee break when I noticed that my pond ultraviolet light sterilising lamp had failed and so I then spent the next two hours taking it to pieces. Eventually, Stephen Field arrived to look at my fish with me. We netted out the young fish with ‘dropsy’ and gave him a three-minute bath in potassium permanganate in an isolation tank. The other fish followed one at a time and then the Ohgon had some mercurochrome put on its bruise. Lastly, the ‘dropsy’ victim was left in the tank in a saline solution to be made gradually more concentrated.
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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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