With the rain falling on and off all day, I managed to mow the games lawn early on and then worked inside on equipment maintenance until Di insisted on us going out to the Little Chef for lunch and Daniel joined us for a break in is revision. I then planted out bedding plants, tended the fish and took Di to the cinema in the evening and saw the film "Pretty Woman". Gorbachev is back in Moscow and facing his latest challenge to his authority by Boris Yeltzin and the rest of the Russian Federation, The Israeli - Likud leader Yitzhak Shamir - has held on to power by forming an alliance and America has ordered the withdrawal of all of their AGM 69A short range nuclear attack missiles for safety reasons. More councils were withdrawing summonses for the Poll Tax after court difficulties
There was not going to be much time before it rained this morning and so, after my normal session in the conservatory to tend the pond plants and fish, I got out as soon as I could to start some gardening. I managed to mow the games lawn and got most of it done before it started spotting with rain and then did the rest as it got heavier. I retired to the workshop and there used the parts that I had collected from Ibbetts the day before to re-assemble the two rotary mowers and the strimmer. Di insisted on us going out to the Little Chef for lunch as she regarded it as her "Bedford day" even though she had stayed in to work on the house.
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Daniel had been in and revising and so he was pleased to join us too. Then, as it carried on raining lightly, I decided to plant out the next batch of bedding plants that had been hardening off under the balcony. These took quite a time and a lot of bending and energy, but they were done in the end and I could move out the last batch of bedding plants from the conservatory to harden off. This meant that I could arrange the melon plants in their place with a string cage for their support and also clean up the conservatory floor. I sat and fed the fish for a while. They would eat for ever if I let them and are getting quite big now, with the largest Hariwaki Ohgon a lot fatter than when I first got it. I was all set to carry on this evening but Diana wanted to go out to the cinema and so I accommodated her. I had time to watch the opening match of the World Cup on the TV and to see holders Argentina beaten by Cameroon in a shock result.
Then to write up a little of my journal but we just put our coats on without changing afterwards and set off for our evening out. We went to this large multi-screen cinema in Peterborough and saw the film "Pretty Woman" about a prostitute who ends up marrying a millionaire and living happily ever after. Peterborough is becoming ever larger and more developed as the kind urban sprawl that you would expect in California rather than Cambridgeshire.
Now that Gorbachev is back in Moscow, he has to face the latest challenge to his authority as Boris Yeltzin and the rest of the Russian Federation have declared that their laws and constitution are superior to Soviet law. Although Margaret Thatcher is in Moscow for talks with the Soviet leader he is probably distracted more by his domestic problems. The Israeli - Likud leader Yitzhak Shamir - has held on to power by forming an alliance with the right-wing religious parties to make his government even more extreme than before. America has ordered the withdrawal of all of their AGM 69A short range nuclear attack missiles after they are ruled unsafe because of risk of Plutonium leakage. Now Conservative-controlled Wandsworth Council has had to follow the example of Medina and South Tyneside in withdrawing summonses for the Poll Tax after court difficulties were experienced in processing 4,800 all at once. It carried on showering off and on for the rest of the day.