A slow start to a day which became more windy and dull until the rain started again and one to spend back-flushing my pond filter, feeding the fish and welcoming Derek Giles mother and family to see my conservatory carp pond. Pat and Percy Meyer also joined us for a day working on our FOCUS newsletter for which I also drew a very clever cartoon with the computer that really hammers the Tories Poll Tax strategy
I actually got to bed by 10.30 last night and was sound asleep until woken at 7.00am which was welcome. A bit slow then to get going and ate breakfast in my dressing gown, washing and shaving afterwards. I gave the pond sand filter a good back-flushing which was needed to get the filter fairly free of sediment. It had not really been done sufficiently by Pete lately. To my office after opening the mail and feeding the fish, where I had a coffee with Di and then wrote up yesterday's journal before getting down to other work. The weather was much cooler, duller and less inviting this morning and so perhaps we will have to wait for Spring for a few weeks yet.
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I worked all day on the content of the 9th issue of FOCUS, editing the copy presented to me on disk, writing some of my own and then checking the grammar and spelling ready for doing the actual layout tomorrow. I also drew a very clever cartoon with the computer that really hammers the Tories Poll Tax strategy. During the day, I broke off to watch some Rugby League football on TV and then later to receive visits from Pat and Percy Meyer and then Derek Giles and family. Derek brought his mother along to see my conservatory with its plants and fish and brought a tiny plant as a gift. They had been threatening to bring a huge Yucca plant but I managed to avoid that. The weather became more windy and dull as the day wore on and then the rain started.