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For a change I took Diana out for a trip and we went to Ely, via a Little Chef coffee and bought some things at the Ely Boat Chandlers, and then visited the Fair with Della. Back home via the Needingworth Fish Farm (where Diana chose a golden Koi) and then L.H. Jones of St Ives where we saw The Lady for the last time in our ownership, some poor football on TV and then more gardening.
Another IRA killing, this time of an army major in Germany and the Gorbachev/Bush summit agrees arms and trade pacts but agrees to differ on the reunification of Germany
I was all set to get on with my work this morning but Diana fancied a trip out and so I took her to Ely. I still had a chance to do a little work before we left and then I got her to drive as I read the paper and telephoned my mother to have a good chat. We stopped once on the way to have coffee at a Little Chef and then arrived in Ely to find a fair in the market square which pleased Della. First, we went to the Ely Boat Chandlers and got Diana an off-shore jacket and life-jacket as well as a whole host of other things for the Paxton Princess. There was a new pair of boating shoes for me and some rope and other fittings for the boat. We then parked closer to town and walked up to the fair and gave Della some nice rides before lunch.
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A day of gardening , clearing undergrowth and having a very smoky and unsociable bonfire as Di collected her Mum and brother's children from Sandy to play here for a while and we heard that Charlie and Chrisula have had another baby girl - their third. Some rain later after all the dry weather as I planted more bedding plants in what had become helpfully damp soil.
Bush and Gorbachev have agreed on substantial nuclear and chemical weapons cuts but are still far apart on the tricky question of whether a united Germany and now West Germany join the boycott of British Beef. The IRA mount a further attack as they gun down three young soldiers at a railway station in Staffordshire, The first Poll Tax protesters were in court today for refusing to pay and Diana informed Fiona that we were going to be taking Sundance away from the stables
I was up and out early to get going on the gardening today. I decided that, as I already had far too many hedge cuttings to dispose of and the branches on the riverside lawn were far too entangled with the undergrowth to be easily cleared, I would have a bonfire. It was a pity that the breeze was towards the house, but it had to be lit today to get the gardening work done. It turned out to be a very smoky bonfire that attracted Diana's wrath and probably did not do neighbourly relations much good either. This was after the noise of my chain-sawing yesterday as well! Still I carted all of the material across and just about got the thing over with by lunchtime. I could not start the chain saw again and had to give it up as a bad job despite having a close look at it. It seems to flood with fuel far too easily. Diana went out to collect her Mum and brother's children from Sandy to play here for a while.
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