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We feel an Earthquake in Shropshire this afternoon measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale after we took the Rolls Royce in the pouring rain to P & A Wood in Essex fore service and repair. I had a planning meeting with an important item for Little Paxton on the agenda; and I made a logical and eloquent speech but the committee chose to ignore me and the vote was lost.
The Poll Tax information arrived in Government white, orange and green leaflets all with great complexity and the switchboard at Huntingdonshire District Council have been jammed with enquiries. Elsewhere, the prisoners at riot-hit Strangeways Prison in Manchester are still in control and one of the injured sex offenders has since died in hospital of his injuries; meaning murder.
Awake early again, even though I was tired and have been missing quite a bit of sleep. I dressed in sports jacket and trousers before breakfast as we were due to take my Rolls Royce to a new service dealer today. We left after breakfast, once Della was at school and Debbie was at horse-riding. It was pouring of rain which was a pity to take the Rolls Royce out but it drove well and the weather cleared up from time to time later. I drove on ahead to P & A Wood in Essex and Di followed in the Range Rover to pick me up. I got a chance to see around the place and it was full of all types of Rolls Royces - old and new. They are restoring on behalf of the manufacturer the original Silver Cloud that completed the endurance run in 1907 and gave the Rolls Royce its reputation for reliability. Also an original prototype of a Bentley. They also had the latest version of a brand new Bentley Corniche Convertible, worth £140,000. They are going to do an "Inspection and Report" and then discuss with me on Wednesday which of the items that they find are to be done at this time.
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April Fools Day – A good joke played on Daniel and then some time cleaning algae from my pond until I had visits from Percy, Derek and Sally in turn with whom I edited and printed out their election Focus newsletters.
Debbie arrived back from her trip to Holland having really enjoyed it. The news continues about the Trafalgar Square Poll tax riot and another at the Strangeways Jail in Manchester with reports of up to 12 dead in the sexual offences wing
I was awake early today and started to get washed and dressed before Diana got up. I played a rotten joke on Daniel to make an April Fool of him whilst he was sitting in his dressing gown having breakfast. I told him that Debbie and Lisa (two old girl friends of his that are always pestering him) would be calling back in ten minutes to see him and he nearly had a fit! To my conservatory where I am pleased to see that my melon seeds have germinated but I found quite a lot of dead algae in the bottom of the pond and had to scoop some of it out later.
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