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After overnight rain, I could forgo gardening and work inside today, sub-editing and preparing the layouts for my latest set of FOCUS newsletters whilst watching some more World Cup football. Daniel had taken a new girlfriend to the cinema in Peterborough last night and enjoyed the experience despite his friends playing the customary practical jokes on his car. Di got Debbie to her horse-riding and then to her St Neots Civic Parade for the Guides and then Di's sister Sue arrived unexpectedly after Daniel had failed to pass on a message.
An IRA bomb exploding on the roof of a Territorial Army building in London, injuring 17 people amongst the 40 students enjoying an unconnected social event and British Airways has grounded many of its aircraft after a windscreen on one shattered and the Captain Tim Lancaster narrowly survived being sucked halfway out of the window.
It was good to have some rain overnight which meant that I did not have any gardening to do today and so could spend my time inside. We had a lay in but Daniel was to bed even later than us and so he laid in even more. He had taken a new girlfriend to the cinema in Peterborough last night and enjoyed the experience. His friends got to hear of it and played the customary practical jokes; tying his water bottle and all else to the steering wheel and switching on all of the indicators etc and the stereo on loud so that all hell broke loose when the ignition was switched on upon their return to the car! I was planning to spend the whole day in and so, with the cool northerly breeze giving the house a chill, I lit a log fire in my office to keep me company.
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A full day gardening after a dry and sunny weather forecast; mowing lawns, trimming shrubs, weeding beds and clearing the games lawn boundary ditch getting very tired and then relaxing watching football on TV.
Havel gets another overwhelming victory in the Czech election , Gorbachev remains unhappy with a united Germany in NATO and a row develops over the insufficient funding for state schools.
The weather forecast was dry and sunny this morning and rain later and so I hurried to get out to get the rest of the lawns mowed. The dew on the lawns had to dry off first and so I lit a bonfire down by the river and got rid of the plastic plant pots which had gathered in such numbers. Trouble was that the wind changed direction so that the acrid black smoke was going over the Russel's boat next door and so I put that fire out and started another one on the slip-way. I then used the edging shears to trim all manner of shrubs that have been growing over the lawn and, had just about gathered up all of the trimmings, when it was time for morning coffee. The grass was dry enough by now and I started mowing the lawns, finishing the ones in the riverside garden by the time lunch was ready. Then it was back to it afterwards to do the edging which is always a steady job.
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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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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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