Meeting today with Daniel’s chemistry teacher, Mr Watson, about his future choice of subjects as he struggles against his advice and that of his housemaster, Mr Brophy, and myself to keep going. Sometime this afternoon working on sealing cracks in The Lady’s woodwork and pasting up scrapbook items before delivering more Village Hall fete programs and attending an interesting activist meeting for St Neots Democrats this evening
Today was the day that we were due to go to see Daniel’s chemistry teacher, Mr Watson, and so we were dressed early and I did my few chores before we went. Daniella had no school today; the teachers were having one of their seven training days necessary for the introduction of the new Kenneth Baker educational reforms. Della therefore came with us to Kimbolton and we arrived dead on 10am, to discuss Daniel’s chemistry performance. The advice to Daniel is now the same from all quarters: viz he is best advised to see his present subjects through to completion; general science subjects of maths physics and chemistry are preferred for computer science course entrance; going back a year gives a bad impression and is poor for career progress. We were telephoned later by his housemaster, Mr Brophy, who supported these views as well, but Daniel remains to be convinced it will make up his own mind in due course.
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I’ve told him that he will not get our financial support for any other course of action. This afternoon, I worked at the task of sealing a number of cracks that opened up in the woodwork of The Lady and then pasting in the remainder of my backup press cuttings into my Little Paxton and career scrapbooks. This evening, I had to deliver and sell the rest of my 50 village Hall fete programs within Gordon Road before rushing over later to Longsands School for a Democratic activist meeting. The county group were learning the lessons of the May/June campaigns and it was interesting for me to swap views and notes with some of the other successful campaigners and councillors who had bucked the trend of the parties reversals. I am firmly against yet more introspective debates on the party name and feel we only need to distil a summary theme for our beliefs and to push it across every opportunity. I stayed chatting for quite a while and was home late as a result