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Tired after recent late nights and arduous gardening sessions, I managed some correspondence before two salesmen from the office fitters arrived and spent an hour and a half presenting their portfolios and incorporating my requirements. Lunch with Di and Daniel, after Dan had been studying for his exams in a chilly room and then preparing my tax information for my accountant this afternoon before popping out to post letters and adverts and get gardening equipment sharpened and spares collected.
Another late evening, this time my last at Priory Doom now that Sally Guinee can take over from me. Frantic efforts in Europe to end the boycott of British Beef, another IRA bomb kills an ex-RUC man near his north Belfast home. And Gorbachev faces a renewed explosion of ethnic violence in the troubled Central Asian republic
I was again tired this morning - mentally and physically - after a series of late nights and arduous gardening sessions. At least I am fit and my weight is well under control now. I typed some correspondence before two salesmen from the office fitters arrived and spent an hour and a half presenting their portfolios and asking what my requirements were. They then took plenty of measurements and sketches so as to go back to their office and get their designers to do some plans for me to see in a week of two's time. After this, I fed the doves and fish but did not need to do any watering in view of the rain we had yesterday.
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After a late evening, I awoke and rose slowly to find a cold omelette for breakfast awaiting me as confusion reigned with the children leaving for school. After making some calls, I mowed the lawns and cut up logs as the rain returned. Daniel had a more difficult Physics exam and Debbie found Sundance left out alone in the rain. A satisfactory Liberal Democrat AGM at the Priory Centre and back in time to chat with Di before bed.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has re-affirmed the Salman Rushdie death threat, Japan is embarking on a massive building programme for nuclear power stations and property companies revalue their portfolios with capital losses of up to a sixth in London. The Guinness trial opens at Southwark Crown Court with Earnest Saunders in the dock.
I was late to bed after that KSS meeting last night which did not finish until 10.30pm. I had sat up with a milky drink and then slept well enough but was still tired this morning. Late to breakfast and arrived for a cold omelette as the children milled around in utter confusion on their way out to school! My plans for the day were somewhat disrupted by me wrongly expecting a visitor when he was actually due to come the following day. I stayed in my office all morning, made a few telephone calls to political colleagues and about the purchase of Redgrave Stores and also wrote up these last two days' journal.
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Daniel’s takes his first exam as the girls go back to school and I send the £120,000 for Freda to take over Redgrave Post Office and Stores before I am visited by two schoolboys and a host of Brownies for which our swimming pool is the attraction.
Then time with the new Cllr Sally Guinee briefing her for Council duties as her leader before I drive off for a Kimbolton SS meeting at the Castle. More trouble for the UK over beef boycotts and the status of Japanese car plants here as the financial sector struggles and doubts are expressed over the arrest of six men for terrorism
The breeze was a bit chillier today and I felt quite cold when I went out to backflush the pond filter and feed the doves this morning. I had breakfast with the children and spent some time with Daniel who was sitting his first examination this afternoon and was nervously studying in his room. He is a bit more communicative today and appreciative (I think) of having been forced to put in the work earlier. The girls were back to school and we were pleased to get them out of the way. I heard from Freda and she told of her plans to move to Redgrave on Wednesday/Thursday of this week. I sent the £120,000 cheque for the mortgage by first class post to provide my contribution to the endeavour.
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The day of Linda and Ian Richardson’s rather irreverent family christenings after a morning’s work on the gardens for me and studying for exams by the children and then this evening writing and hearing news of the horrific coach crash in France. Political manoeuvrings in the centre of British politics leaves the LibDems in central stage and the demise of a major financial services group hits the headlines
It was a bit colder last night and this kept me awake with cold feet until I put some bedclothes back on the bed after they had been discarded in the warmer weather. It had become fresher and more unsettled and we hoped for more rain for the garden. Today was the day for the christening of the children of Linda and Ian Richardson but, because this was not until this afternoon, this still left this morning for me to cut the lawns. I cut the main lawns this morning and did the edging at the same time. They had not grown much but had become straggly and covered in seeds, weeds and other rubbish and so they looked a lot better for my effort. The new Koi is tiny, at 4ins, compared with the rest and is so nervous of them that it hides under the plant baskets all the time.
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