The pain from my scalding was still troublesome but I managed to get through my planning meeting in Huntingdon today, speaking to the plans for Southoe and then trying unsuccessfully to oppose the major development in Little Paxton, but the Priory Hill and Mill Lane sites are without threat and so the merging with St Neots has been averted.
An evening resting my foot and hoped as the flooding subsides and I make progress on my journal. Gorbachev has made speeches to the effect of removing article 6 in the constitution that gives Communism supremacy whilst back home, the news spotlight is on the quality of schools, as the inspectorate identifies 40% of schools as being poor and revealed the unsatisfactory nature of hospital staffing by junior doctors working hours
I still needed pain-killers to get me through the night, but I was glad that my fever did not turn out to be the 'Flu. I now wonder if it was a shock from my scalding. I got Diana to farm out Della for Pat Law to take to school for a change, so that she was available to help me to get out for the planning meeting. She had to help me wash my hair and then get all of my papers together. I eventually left on time and managed to park by the council chamber which was good because I could not have walked very far. The meeting was long and lasted all day. My foot was a problem, but I managed.
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They went through each of the villages and I raised a detail on Southoe and then the towns and they took Little Paxton last as part of the St Neots area consideration. I was the last councillor to speak and I tried to persuade them against adopting the development route, but I do not think that I succeeded. At least the Priory Hill and Mill Lane sites are without threat, which is of personal satisfaction and the development will only be allowed if a new road and river crossing can be created to relieve the traffic on Mill Lane. Home and a restful evening again, typing up these last two days' journal and was thus up to date. The flood is subsiding at last.
The news today is of the spotlight of reform passing on to the heart of Soviet Union. Gorbachev has made speeches to the effect that the Union should move to multi-party system by abolishing article 6 in the constitution that gives Communism supremacy. This has followed a wave of strikes culminating in a mass demonstration in Moscow yesterday. Back home, the news spotlight is on the quality of schools, as the inspectorate identifies 40% of schools as being poor or very poor. Also other surveys show the unsatisfactory nature of hospital staffing by junior doctors working hours which are far too long.