After some worrying symptoms of bodily strain, I had some time away from my desk this morning feeding and watching my fish before working on my ‘Village Institutions and Events’ book chapter and then taking Diana for her Mother’s Day lunch, where the service was agonisingly slow. The rest of the day working until late hearing about a Great Gransden election opportunity and of the suspicion of the train driver ignoring a red light for yesterday’s crash; but union leaders are blaming the Thatcher government for reducing manning levels.
There was a strange and worrying thing this morning. Diana had spotted a patch of blood in my underpants and I think my kidneys or bladder is under strain from me being hunched up at my desk so much. I fed the fish several times today and they seem okay; Harry a swimming with the others most of the time but does rest more often. I did some work on my chapter this morning, sorting out all of the material and then later I completed the scanning and resumed editing. It was Mother’s Day and Debbie and I had forgotten but Daniel and Della remembered. Di had arranged lunch at a French restaurant and we all sat there for 1 PM. Unfortunately, the service was deathly slow and we left after two hours without putting because Della had a party to go to at 3 PM.
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This afternoon and evening I carried on working but broke off at 11 PM for a night’s sleep and rest for my body. I had heard from Michael Pope today that Desmond Merrill of Great Gransden wants to talk to us about the District Council ward. This independent might stand for us as a Democrat and would be a colleague for me for the first time if he won. The terrible train crash yesterday has been put down to the driver going through a red light. Opposition and union leaders are blaming the Thatcher government for running down transport manning levels to breaking point.