I spent the morning working on my Rolls-Royce to get it ready for use on another fine and sunny day and then to pick up my dry cleaning from St Neots before driving to Huntingdon for a boring procedural District Council meeting as Debbie swam at Ernulf pool and Daniel worked at his school computing project on my Apple Mac. Huge Chinese demonstrations in Peking during the Gorbachev visit are a serious embarrassment to the Chinese government. Back home NHS doctors are set to block governments dismantling of the social security and health service as labours draw level with the Tories at 43% and the stock exchange hits record highs
This was another fine and sunny day. There was no Peter, my gardener, today and so I first fed the doves and fish and then started to clean the Rolls-Royce to get it back into action. The battery was flat and so, whilst I recharged it, I turned my attention to my bicycle and was disappointed to find Daniel had put it away wet and muddy so that it had become tarnished. Then the rest of the morning working on the Rolls-Royce. It was hard work on a warm day, but I had the paintwork cleaned and polished by lunchtime. Then the tyres needed pumping up afterwards and Di went to pick up my dry cleaning from St Neots. A nice drive to Huntingdon, but a boring afternoon meeting of the District Council.
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It was a procession of ceremonial speeches and non-election of committees and chairman, the form of which had already been agreed in Monday’s Tory group meeting. There was no place for me on the policy committee or on any of the working parties but the economic development committee working party was discontinued further to my past criticisms of it. I had a chat to many of the Tory councillors afterwards and I stay on good terms with many of them. Terry Hayward asked me to join the parents committee of Kimbolton School and I accepted the invitation this time. It was a nice drive home in the sun in my open topped car and then I took Debbie to Ernulf in it for her swimming lesson. I went for a bike ride after tea and toured Little Paxton and the gravel pits in a circular ride. Daniel was finishing off his school computing project on my Apple Mac tonight and I just filled in a couple of forms. The news tonight is of the Chinese demonstrating in their millions in the streets of Peking during the Gorbachev visit. It has now become a serious threat to the Chinese government’s leadership and a major embarrassment for them. The NHS doctors are set to block the government’s intended ‘reforms’ to the health service. The government is switching all of the Social Security functions to agency status which seems to be a prelude to something else even more controversial. Labour are now level with the Tories at 43% each in the latest opinion polls. The stock exchange is rising to record levels since the October crash again but I’m not to be tempted.