A day working on the Heronshaw garage brickwork support piers after buying another 150 bricks and a wheelbarrow from Jewson’s and a cubic yard of sand from Wroxham Building Supplies. By the end of the day, I had completed one of the internal floor support walls, working after dark with artificial lighting.
John Major has problems with Tory activists in Cheltenham seek to disown their party's selection of the first black Tory MP using terms like "Nigger from Birmingham". The government also named the first 56 NHS hospitals to opt out of the main management system to become "self-governing trusts" which many of us see as creeping privatisation.
I was up and out a bit slower than I had intended this morning as it always seems to take a little while to get used to a new routine. A simple breakfast and then I decided to telephone a couple of suppliers to check on the arrangements. Jeckells would be coming with the new boat covers tomorrow, but the electrical contractor would try to come by later this afternoon. This enabled me to go into Wroxham to do some shopping and to get some materials. I went to Jewsons to begin with and bought another 150 bricks and a wheelbarrow. Then on to Wroxham Building Supplies for some sand which I loaded into my trailer with my own shovel. It was about a cubic yard of sand at a price of £9 which I called £10. Into Wroxham itself for some bits and pieces. I bought some super-glue to repair my trailer lights and a new light bulb for the same.
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It was late morning by the time I was back at Heronshaw, but I got straight down to work, unloading bricks and starting to mix a load of concrete. By the end of the day, I had completed one of the internal floor support walls. I had worked until dark, broken off to make some more telephone calls and to have some tea; and then resumed work under artificial lighting and carried on until quite late before coming in. I had gathered up the pieces of the trailer lenses and spent some time gluing these together to provide some reasonable appearance to the trailer lights. Then tired to bed.
The national news is of Major running into his second political crisis as certain of the more extreme Tory activists in Cheltenham seek to disown their party's selection of the first black Tory MP using terms like "Nigger from Birmingham". Not very good public relations for the party to say the least. The government has named the first 56 NHS hospitals to opt out of the main management system to become "self-governing trusts" which many of us see as creeping privatisation.