On a dry morning, after a late night for me and the girls, I was tired this morning, but I eventually started and worked all day producing four local editions of FOCUS newsletters, which were well received. Di took the girls to the cinema whilst the boys experimented with radio transmitters.
Kenneth Clarke was sending contradictory messages about settling the Ambulancemen’s pay dispute, the post-revolutionary situation in Bucharest is far from a happy one with demonstrations in the streets for faster reforms. A year after the London to Belfast Boing 737 crashed on the A1 at Kegworth, the report is awaited on why the wrong engine was shut down
I stayed up very late last night watching the recorded highlights of the day's F.A. Cup football matches which were quite exciting. In the end, it was after midnight before I got to bed, and the night seemed short when I was woken up at 8.00am this morning. Debbie and Helen had been eating a "midnight feast" of chocolates etc. and so I was not the only one that suffered. This morning, I was a bit slow to get going as I had to deal with the doves and fish etc, but I eventually got down to work at about 10.00am.
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Today, I did the layout for the four separate editions of FOCUS for Priory, Paxton, Offord/Buckden and Eaton Socon, and it took up most of the day. In between times I rested by playing with the girls and watching some more Football and Rugby on television. Di took the girls to the cinema this afternoon for an outing and Daniel and Gary played on their computers and tuned their Hi-Fi's into the transmitter built by their friend, Jason Chambers, of Little Paxton. By stringing wires all around his house he can just about transmit this far, even though to do this is quite illegal. This evening, I took copies of the FOCUS drafts round to the other Democrat activists to give them a chance to copy-read them and make constructive comments. They were all at home (apart from Sally who telephoned me later) and thought that the newsletters were very good. I told them all that we will have to have a better system for the future, because there is too much work in them for me to carry on like this. The strange news today is that Kenneth Clarke has denied that there is any more money available for the ambulancemen even though that was the message given to the eight journalists he briefed at the House of Commons yesterday! The crisis mounts and all is in disarray. The post-revolutionary situation in Bucharest is far from a happy one. There are demonstrations in the streets for faster reforms. The crowds are forbidden to demonstrate in the town centre, only on the outskirts and disillusionment is setting in. It was fairly dry today, but rain will come overnight before clearing to become colder with storms in the west. It has been one year to the day since that London to Belfast Boing 737 crashed on the A1 at Kegworth and still the report is awaited on why the wrong engine was shut down.