With Diana not happy over things, we were still experiencing gales and even worse warnings of such and poor Amy is still ill and staying with us during the day. Better news as my new bottle bank has arrived at The Anchor but the District Council are still remiss over heating improvements for our Southoe Tenants and I was also sad over Dad’s grave being spoilt by the wind as I settled his estate. The County Tories are subsidising the Poll Tax even more to save their skin, District officers and working party have put both the "Friendly" and "Domesday" options for Little Paxton for Monday's special Planning Meeting. A 1970’s disinformation campaign to discredit not only the IRA but also ex-Prime Ministers Wilson, Callaghan and Heath is revealed.
I had a bit of an argument with Di last night and again this morning and she had gone o to discredit ff to sleep elsewhere in the house for the night. The trouble is that when she watches these anti-male romantic women’s' films, she becomes anti-male herself. We slept to more gales and there are even more severe gale warnings broadcast today for later in the week. Diana went out shopping and I got her to do some delivery chores for me; posting letters etc. I had cleared quite a few things up and was doing what I hoped was the last few items on my late Dad's estate, when Hilary Knightley arrived to announce that the bottle bank had arrived in the Anchor Car Park.
I therefore helped her with a draft press release publicising the achievement and the help given by the new Anchor publican, Mr Piana, and then I laid out some artwork for posters for her to put up in the local shops etc. This took much of the morning, but I didn't mind. The rest of the morning I spent on my Dad's estate and I thought that I had completed everything by lunchtime. After lunch, I went to Southoe to see Mr and Mrs Oliver and Flo Clyde about their problems with the District Council over heating improvements; and then also dropped in on Shirley White opposite to put her in the picture. The Council are being dismissive of the complaints, but we do not want to get Olly worked up any more in view of his health.
Then on to Little Paxton Cemetery to see what damage the gales had wrought on Dad's grave. I had become quite sad and philosophical after spending much of the morning on his affairs. In fact, the laurel leaves Debbie and I had put on it had stood up quite well even though all of the flowers had rotted or been blown away. It will do for a day or two. They are still harvesting Brussel Sprouts in the adjoining fields. Home via The Anchor to see the bottle bank which looks fine there, and I think it will be a great success.
A few calls once home to and from the Citizen and Michael Pope. It seems that the County Tories have been really scraping the barrel and depleting just about all of their reserves over two years to try to hide the effects of the new Poll Tax to save their political skin. Tea and then, this evening, I caught up on these last two weeks' press cuttings whilst watching the Commonwealth Games but still have the task of sticking a very large backlog of cuttings into the Little Paxton Album. the news is of the deepening Games scandal as another Welshman has been found out for taking drugs and has been disqualified from the Games and his medals forfeit. All British weightlifters now face a year's ban from international competition. Even bigger news is of an ex-government employee's claim that he was involved in a disinformation campaign in the 1970's not only to defame the IRA but also ex-Prime Ministers Wilson, Callaghan and Heath and that certain of this is now admitted by the government despite a previous House of Commons denial by Mrs Thatcher. An enquiry is being pressed for and another minister is to make a Commons statement tomorrow.
More gales are forecast for tomorrow and I am worried because I heard from Barnes Brinkcraft today that my boat is ready, and I may go over on Friday/Saturday to collect it. I had a huge wad of planning documents thud onto my doormat tonight in advance of Monday's special Planning Meeting. The officers and working party have put both the "Friendly" and "Domesday" options for Little Paxton in the alternative and it is for the Planning Committee to decide which is an improvement on before. We had little Amy Law with us all day today which is sad to see her left here unwell as her parents go to work which I think is not right and have told Diana so.