My fish continued its recovery on a busy day where this morning’s work was disrupted by visitors, the most significant of which was Percy bringing news of a Gransden Ward District by-election being called, which we then made plans to fight. I still managed to complete my Pre-War History section of the book and attend two Council meetings today. I have been offered a Buckden School Governorship but not a Paxton one, the UK turns down talks with Iran and soya-based milk for babies has been found to contain 100 times more aluminium than breastmilk
After a very late bedtime (retiring after midnight), I slept well and laid in until 7:30am, which seem to suit me fine. I had a fair session draining and refilling my isolation tank and was pleased to note that the casualty is continuing its recovery. I toyed with the idea of returning it to the pond as it had stopped exuding pus, but I decided to wait until its surface sore healed up as the pond fish are so active that they will pursue it if it is put back. The morning’s work session was disturbed by the arrival of a lady from Priory Ward, whom I helped with information and advice on her dog-fouling problem. Then Percy Meyer dropped by and we talked about an important development as the sitting District Councillor for Gransden is dropping out, leaving a District by-election as well as the County Council elections in May. Now we hope to find a good candidate to try to beat the Tory and get me a Democrat colleague on the District Council.
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I spent this afternoon and early evening working on my history and I managed to finish off the Pre-war chapter which is by far the biggest. I was then in a rush to get off to the HDC Southern Area meeting tonight which I only realised at the last minute was a 7pm (not 7:30pm) start! I just got there with a minute to spare which was important as the first two agenda items were my own! Then on to the Little Paxton Parish Council to participate in the closing session of that meeting which was rather frustrating. Then a meeting with Michael Pope back at home (with Percy on the phone) agreeing our tactics for the Gransden Ward election. I had an interesting approach today to serve as a school governor for Buckden and also heard that the Little Paxton Governors had some time ago turn down my nomination which is an odd inconsistent turn of events. Rather agitated, I decided to clear my desk of the most urgent matters to allow me to relax a little and clear a backlog of items that have waited far too long. I had another very late bedtime as a result. The news today was all about the continuing Iran confrontation as Britain rejects the suggestion of talks from Iran. There was another food scare today; this time after soya-based milk for babies, which has been found to contain 100 times more aluminium than breastmilk.