A slow start to the day after a breakfast of croissants and the late arrival of Sally to help me write end edit the Priory FOCUS copy. A break watching cricket and then a poor Little Paxton Parish Council meeting in the evening.
South Africa has lifted the state of emergency, but the end of apartheid is needed before the ANC will support the end of sanctions. Coloroll goes into receivership.
I was slow to start this morning and came last to the breakfast table for a couple of croissants. I was expecting Sally Guinee to come and help me start work on the FOCUS's this morning, but she was a little late which gave me a chance to tend my fish and doves and to do some watering. Then, when she arrived, we worked on the computer all day until about 2.30pm with a break for lunch. At the end of this time we had sub-edited the Priory text and stories but there was still the same for Eaton Socon and the Buckden Ward to do.
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I was a bit shattered after all this concentration and so then had a session watching the opening day of the England vs New Zealand Test Cricket match on TV. After tea it was soon time to get ready for the Little Paxton Parish Council Meeting and the Planning Committee that started at 7.00pm. It was a strange meeting that had peaks of good news and bad disorganisation. We had a visit from the new Police Inspector who brought the good news that we would be sharing the community policemen from Eaton Socon rather than not having anyone to call our own and this will help the community enormously. It seems after the technical revolution in policing that put them into cars and under radio control, there is a return in the emphasis to community policing with the bobby on the beat.
The bad news was the way in which Council business was being conducted. Appalling slow stewardship of the meeting and the re-election of the Planning Chairman that was so casual about the responsibility last year. We then had the row about planning decisions being made by other committees and there was a fair bit of recrimination which was unfortunate. The meeting did not finish until after 10.00pm but Di was still up when I got home. South Africa has lifted the state of emergency, but universal franchise and the end of apartheid is needed before the ANC will support the end of sanctions. Another company receivership - this time of Coloroll.