This was a worrying day for poor Daniella having developed terribly swollen eyes is allergic to reaction overnight and so we spent much of it away from the house to give her respite and chance of recovery as refreshing rains came at last. Then home to resume my negotiations for Admiral’s Cottage talking to agents and professional advisers before taking Debbie to Offord and leaving her there as I had to rush back to chair the Little Paxton Village Hall committee meeting where we organised the forthcoming Village Hall fête and fundraising dance. Thatcher is refusing sanctuary to fleeing refugees from Hong Kong after the latest crisis and is roundly condemned
We had an appalling start to the day. Poor Daniella had developed terribly swollen eyes in the night and, when Diana went to wake up, she could see no eyelids at all. She seemed to have developed an extremely acute allergy to something and was so swollen above and below the eyes that she looked like a Chinese and was worried and discomfited. We all concentrated on reassuring her and comforting her in the face of this quite horrifying condition. We got the other children off to school, tended the conservatory and then I phoned and arranged an urgent doctor’s appointment for her. He agreed that it was serious and prescribed ‘anti--histamine’ tablets, eyedrops and antibiotics for sore throat that may have been the trigger. It was viewed as being much more likely that it was the interference of something to which she is allergic, and we can only think of a horse blanket that had been hanging in the hall or something of a dietary nature.
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I kept her in St Neots for a while, away from the house, and we also had coffee at the Rendezvous Café and I delivered another 18 books to United News. Once home, I was on the phone resuming my negotiations for Admiral’s Cottage. I put my latest negotiating points to Blake’s and briefed my solicitor and surveyor on what I wanted of them. I also had a further negotiation with both Blake’s and Hoseasons about what they could do for me as agents. This all took quite a while before and after lunch. By 3:30pm, I had to set off for Kimbolton to collect Debbie and take her horse riding in Offord. There was no sign of Fiona and so Debbie rode with Gemma and Sarah, in the outdoor school. Debbie had to get a lift home as I rushed back to go to Little Paxton Village Hall committee meeting which I was chairing in the absence of the Chairman on holiday as I am now Vice Chairman and a Trustee. The meeting went very well and arrangements are now finalised for the Village Hall fête and a fundraising dance. I got home quite reasonable time, but we had to prepare more books for sale and so was late to bed. The news in China was of troop clashes and fears of many more and also of crowds at the airport of people waiting to fly out. Thatcher does not want to take the majority of British Passport holders in Hong Kong as refugees and is roundly condemned by opposition politicians for turning her back on the colony. In Poland, Solidarity have done surprisingly well in the experimental elections and have the power to block the communist government. Today, the rains came to water gardens that badly needed the irrigation and had been scorched by dryness.