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On a warm day with plenty of showers, I was concentrating on getting my financial statement completed and writing up two days of journal until being called to the riding school to help Debbie with Sundance. I then forego the village hall disco dance and hear the news featuring the Chinese authorities arresting 600 and brutally crushing political opposition as more ethnic unrest in Uzbekistan and another rail -crash kills a further 31
I slept in a while this morning and Di was a bit late as a result to get the breakfast prepared and Daniel off to school. I decided to concentrate on getting my financial statement done but I was first distracted by the sound of fire engines racing through Paxton. It turned out to be some rubbish on fire at the school. Then Debbie called me from the riding school and asked for help in catching Sundance. By the time I got there, she had caught him after all! I met somebody on my return to Paxton who were driven in from Eaton Socon with newspapers for the Scouts collection on the wrong day! I took the papers into my garage and made a note of his details as a possible future Scouts helper. I then watched the first England versus Australia Test Match Cricket on TV placed on my desk as I keyed in my financial transactions. This upset Diana and Daniel, who can’t see I can do this when we are waiting to know the outcome of the Admiral’s Cottage business.
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I was resuming work on my finances after six months of inactivity, talking through the survey on my Wroxham potential property and being put off by its valuation before spending an evening at Lodge Farm Diddington for a barn dance after Diana and I were given a lift by Helen and Eric Young
This was a day working at home and starting to update my financial income and asset statements for the last tax year. I am catching up on six months of inactivity on that front and had to work out my tax position. Later, I telephoned the surveyor on my Wroxham property and talk through the results of his investigation. He is still very dubious about the value being anywhere near the £165,000 asking price and now he has us wondering. We have decided to await his report and then I may have to drive up there and conduct a re-negotiation in order to proceed. This evening was the ‘Three-in-One ’ barn dance where the parishes of Paxton, Southoe and Diddington of the Reverend Peter Lewis get together in Lodge Farm Diddington barn. Today been warm but it was cold enough for a barn dance and we had a go. The turnout of 300 tickets sold (versus 260 last year) but this will be the last of Gerald’s barn dances as he is retiring from managing Peter Thornhill’s estate farm. Midway through the evening, the immaculate tractor and trailer brought in the food in the normal custom.
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A meeting with Superintendent David Porter at Huntingdon Police Station and then a tour of local newsagents placing batches of my book for sale before collecting Debbie from school for horse riding lesson at Offord. Off to a Little Paxton Parish Council meeting and home to find Diana fed up but Della much improved. The ongoing Chinese crisis develops with the Governor of Hong Kong getting ‘strong assurances’ from Prime Minister Thatcher and a Soviet MIG 15 crashes at the Parish Air Show as opinion polls put the Labour Party 7% up on the Tories for the forthcoming Euro elections
I had a very sound night’s sleep with the extra ventilation from the open window helping. Awoken to a start as Diana, bringing in the morning tea, set off an alarm by trying to close the window with its faulty switch. I got showered and dressed quickly to join the others in time for breakfast. It was another busy day for me. A meeting this morning with Superintendent David Porter at Huntingdon Police Station. Michael Pope was due to join me and the Parish Chairman, John Knight, but had to cry off with another of his migraine attacks. A fairly good meeting with many assurances and much recognition of our concerns, but no agreement to put a community policeman into Little Paxton. After the meeting, I went around Huntingdon on my book errands. I checked with WH Smith who had enough copies and then persuaded other bookshops to take six.
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Della was recovering from her acute allergic attack but staying at home convalescing and was good company for me if a distraction. Sometime progressing my interest in Admiral’s Cottage and sending correspondence and then to prepare for a successful HDC Environmental Services Committee meeting this evening, where many of my proposals were accepted. Some estimates of the casualties of the Chinese unrest are as high as 7,000 people dead, 1,000 of which are troops and the train was hijacked and set on fire. Hong Kong are upset over Thatcher’s immigration and refugee policy
I slept well enough after a late night and was quite tired this morning. I was down to breakfast a little late and then Della helped me to feed the Koi carp. She spent another day at home convalescing. Her eyes are nearly back to normal, though her chest is still congested. She is nice to have around, though something of a distraction to be here all day. After clearing my papers up and doing yet more financial reconciliations, my task today was to pursue the arrangements for purchasing Admiral’s Cottage. I first used my computer scanner to plot the property boundary alterations and then wrote to solicitor, surveyor, Blake’s and the housekeeper to keep things moving. I then went out to post the correspondence first class. I hope that for certain it will get there tomorrow as the return post to hear is been very good with the Norwich to Cambridge railway system playing its part.
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