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Up on time on a warm, showery and windy day and some time to work before taking Di and Daniel to Bedford, where I checked out Marshall’s new range Rover service facility and met my stockbrokers. After lunch in Bedford, I went with Daniel to view his new car and agreed he could buy it and also bought a video player mum to see a tape of Dad’s last time with Della. The new gardener has done well and will continue.
35,000 may have died in a huge Iranian earthquake and political differences are put to one side as international rescue teams assist. The Berlin ‘checkpoint Charlie’ border crossing was removed today, and threats of right-wing South Africans against Nelson Mandela being tightened
Up on time this morning on a day that was both warm, showery and windy all at the same time. I had a little time to do some work before and after breakfast and then I took Diana and Daniel to Bedford. We dropped Di off at her hairdressers and then Daniel and I drove on to see the new Marshalls Range Rover service facility in Goldington Road and to get a free safety check and car valet. We had a look at the new Discovery which is the manufacturer's latest riposte to the Japanese and is a very competitive product. By foot into Bedford where I went to see some stockbrokers and Daniel to the shops. I signed a deal to put £6,000 of Marks and Spencer shares into a PEP scheme and then we all rendezvoused at the hairdressers before taking lunch at Debenhams.
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After a very late start and then managing my new gardener, I spent the day attending to correspondence and trying to get out from under a mound of paperwork whilst watching Scotland fail and England succeed in getting to the last sixteen of the World Cup.
Then to hatch up and execute perfectly a plan to take over a key HDC committee this evening, which I ended up chairing! Thatcher is already back-pedalling on European Currency Union as expected
I was very late getting up and showered today and came down in my dressing gown to read the morning post at length. It was after the gardener had arrived at 9.00am that I managed to get showered and dressed properly and then spent the morning in my office. The electrician arrived today and worked all morning and I kept my eye on what he was doing so that the fish-pond was not left without power and life support systems for too long. All day I was attending to correspondence and trying to get out from under a mound of paperwork so that I could spend this weekend in Norfolk. I was also watching the Scottish football match on TV and the sad news was that they lost their game and failed to qualify for the last sixteen.
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Some time instructing new gardener Mark in the use of my Atco Club mower for cutting the games lawn grass when Hilary Knightley arrived for advice and collected some of my FOCUS newsletters for delivery. After Di and I had collated the rest, I personally delivered to the outlying properties in my ward and dropped off batches for other helpers to do the same. This evening watching TV whilst sorting through local papers for my news cuttings.
The US was trying unsuccessfully to force Israel and the PLO to resume conciliation talks, John Major was trying to dilute the UK commitment to the EMS but a more serious worry for us all are reductions in the Ozone layer are accelerating year by year
I followed my normal routine on a day that started fine. I insisted that Debbie walk to her bus stop as she is getting lazier and lazier these days by insisting on being driven there. I worked in the conservatory until Mark arrived and then showed him how to mow the games lawn and use the multi-bladed ATCO Club mower. I was trying to repair the strimmer when Hilary Knightley arrived and sought my advice on a variety of personal and career problems, and we went inside and chatted for well over an hour. At least I think that I was of some help and then she took away two batches of FOCUS's - one for her and the other for Helen Young to deliver, which saved me that time at least. I then carried on collating and folding the rest of the FOCUS's and, after lunch, Diana helped me to finish them off.
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After a late breakfast of croissants, and spotting a pair of garden warblers nesting under my office balcony, I welcomed Mark Bowles the second day running and briefed him on the gardening jobs for him to do today. After my journal and some important correspondence, I sorted out the focus newsletters for delivery and continue this task for some hours completing much of it. Then a rather disorganised St Neots Museum Management committee meeting before home in time to see Daniel and Diana before they retired to bed.
The fourth and last member of the active IRA unit was captured on the continent, South Africa has scrapped their apartheid laws and now have to introduce a universal franchise to be welcomed into the international community. Gorbachev meets rival Boris Yeltsin to agree splitting the Russian and Soviet Communist parties, British arms manufacturers and the universities face financial stringency.
I was a little slow to rise after my late night and was watching the garden out of the window whilst drinking my morning tea. I then spotted the new birds that are nesting under my office balcony and managed to identify them as Garden Warblers by using my binoculars and a reference book. It is the first time I have seen them at all. Late to breakfast but Di still heated up a couple of croissants for me. I then tended the doves, fish and conservatory until the gardener arrived. Now that he has turned up two days running and is coping, I think that he will last for a while. It started raining again this morning, after the showers of yesterday, and so I gave Mark Bowles alternative gardening priorities depending on the weather. He was to remove the wallflowers, weed and tidy the beds and then plant out the remaining bedding plants in the swimming pool area if it was raining; or continue edging and strimming if the weather was fine.
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