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We were tired when making the early morning delivery of the Range Rover to Sawtry before taking Della to school but, after an hour writing and working on Council matters, I took Di to St Neots for morning coffee and to deliver press releases on re-cycling. Sally and Brian Guinee were around this afternoon working on Focus stories and the girls swam later so I kept the pool heated a little longer.
A 145mph hurricane is causing death and destruction in the Caribbean and an overtime ban by ambulance drivers back home has now led the service being seriously overstretched. The huge oil slick off of Humberside is luckily drifting offshore as the UK is already in trouble with the EU over water quality.
We were both tired at the start of the day as we could choose more sleep. We had to get going early as Diana and I needed to deliver the Range Rover to Sawtry for this week’s body repairs. We got it there by 8:30am and were still in time to drive Della back to Little Paxton school by 9am. I spent an hour thereafter typing and printing out a press release to the local newspapers on the subject of recycling and also my proposals for the HDC Environment Services Committee meeting tomorrow.
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I struggled to wake this morning after retiring day yesterday and on a cool and drizzly day. As Di set off to Cambridge to collect the girls, I worked at home before collecting Debbie from horse riding and paying her riding bills.
A collision between two oil tankers off Humberside left a 140 mi² oil slick and the Labour Party has warned that they would freeze dividends on water shares after privatisation and rigorously regulate all the nationalised utilities.
I slept very well on a night that was cooler and quite drizzly and a day that continued dull and showery. Before long, it seems that Diana was waking me up having announced that I already enjoyed half an hour’s lay in! I struggled to get up, still quite tired from the exertions and driving of the night before. I was a little late down to breakfast, where there was only Diana and Daniel to join us as the girls were with Mrs Jackson.
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A good start to our day reading guides and enjoying a fine breakfast before checking out of our hotel in the rain and visiting the used boat show displays as the weather improved, identifying the Broom 37 as our favourite choice. The long tiresome journey home after which I enjoyed the last night of the BBC Promenade Concerts on television and wrote up these last two days’ Journal.
Cambridgeshire Deputy Chief Constable, John Stevens, is to lead the investigation into the leaks which have thrown the Anglo-Irish agreement into stress. In South Africa, the youngest victim of the election day shootings (13-year-old Patrick Muller) was buried today and, for once, the public ceremony and demonstration when uninterrupted by police.
Di laid in this morning as I got up and sat in the lounge area of our suite and read more of the brochures and books. The book on boatbuilding and fitting-out by Geoffrey O’Connell was particularly helpful and illuminating. Once Di was up and about, we had our breakfast: For me another fine meal; this time of scrambled egg and bacon. We checked out of our hotel in the rain again and then drove round all the ‘Used Boat Show’ displays on the Rivers Test and Hamble which accompany the Southampton Boat Show. The weather cheered up a bit for the occasion. We saw lots of boats but nothing to rival the new Broom 37 from our Norfolk Broads.
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We had a rush to get the children to school and to pack and set off in the Range Rover in the rain for the preview day at the Southampton Boat Show, stopping at a transformed Borehamwood service complex before completing the journey on featureless and characterless motorways. A comprehensive look at the aft cockpit cruisers, a chance to gather chandlery catalogues and to buy some boat maintenance books as the misty day turned to drizzle.
A night at the splendid and historical Dolphin Hotel, with its historical royal associations and a nice meal of smoked salmon and lobster in the fine dining room before a romantic and passionate bedtime.
It was a rush this morning to get the children ready for school and us ready and packed to leave for the Southampton boat show. All ready by 8am, after loading up, we set off in the Range Rover as the rain was falling gently; not the best weather for the Rolls-Royce convertible. At Borehamwood, we stopped at the service area for coffee and Diana was amazed by its transformation from a small hotel to a massive service complex. I had seen its evolution, but this experience was made the more dramatic by the place being absolutely thronged with people in cars and coaches. The journey onwards to Southampton was easy via the motorways of the lower A1, the M25 and the M3; but it was quite unpleasant being on busy motorways for so long. The county appears as a non-ending concrete surface.
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