Meeting up with my accountant Roger Brittain to complete my personal and Trust tax returns and then joining the Little Paxton Village Hall storeroom rubbish-clearing endeavour before home for lunch and out purchasing all manner of necessary materials for our property and pony.
23 people killed and 100 injured in yesterday’s election-day violence in South Africa and after the reports of ‘rioting and looting’ by English soccer fans on the North Sea ferry Tor Britannia and in Sweden, they have all been released without charge
A late night and so little chance to sleep again, but I do not seem to need so much in this warm weather. Breakfast and then seeing the children off to school after which I had a short time to finish my preparation for the meeting with Roger Brittain, my accountant this morning. In fact, he phoned me, and I was able to get all the facts and figures ready that he needed in order to submit my tax forms for my personal and children’s trust affairs. We had a good meeting as a result, and I am satisfied that I am now up to date in more respects with my tax affairs than I have ever been since disposing of Comart.
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On to the Village Hall after this meeting where I weighed in to help the process of clearing out the storeroom and discarding the rubbish. We made some progress, but we really need a policy of restricting the way in which things can be dumped there by user organisations. I got home in time for lunch and then, this afternoon, I drove to a number of places to get new cable for the slipway winch, paint the river metal piling, food for Sundance, our pony, and other things. All this before collecting Debbie from school, taking her horse-riding and then bringing her home again. Then a quiet tea and off to the Little Paxton Planning and full Council meetings at The Village Hall which went on until after 10 PM and so I was not home until all of the family were in bed. I did have the chance to talk to the children and Daniel’s bad news was that he had not materially improved his inorganic chemistry performance at his resit exam. Debbie is a bus captain for the prep and Daniel a bus prefect. Della is settling down well with the new teacher, but we have all yet to get fully into the routine broken by a long and enjoyable holidays.
News today world-wide is of at least 23 people killed and 100 injured in yesterday’s election-day violence in South Africa. According to Archbishop Tutu, a six-year-old girl in several elderly women were amongst those killed. The election result itself has been welcomed by UK Foreign Secretary Major has a mandate for change in South Africa but stops short of approving economic sanctions. After the reports of ‘rioting and looting’ by English soccer fans in Sweden, they have all been released without charge and the police are playing down the extent of the problem which was just one or two windows being broken and all fans cleared as a precautionary matter. Even so the anti-soccer UK government sports minister, Colin Monaghan, has asked for the next international football match to be called off. Another warm and sunny day today