Another hot and sunny day spent trying to cut back vegetation overhanging the games lawn, a meeting of Liberal Democrat Councillors; Percy, Sally and Michael after which I leapt into the swimming pool to clean and cool off. The buyers of The Lady have got their loan, US President George Bush is supporting Gorbachev and giving backing to his reforms. During appalling racial violence in Pakistan, 157 people have lost their lives.
I had a little lay in this morning but was soon up and ready for breakfast with the family as I had been away from them for some time and needed the contact. I then fed the fish and re-filled the food containers that Diana had used up, before back-flushing the pond filter to see how well it had been managing. Daniel had been looking after this whilst I was away and seemed to have been doing it correctly. The grass was quite parched with the lack of rain and had not grown very much and so I left the lawns and started on the hedges. The first was the Leylandii that was overhanging the games lawn. I started with the hedge trimmer but then needed a bow saw and mine seemed to be at Heronshaw. I went to borrow one from John and Pat but found a chain saw that needed attention and so I took that instead and this started a whole process that took me off into log cutting. I drove off to Arthur Ibbett in Great Paxton and got them to sharpen the saw and came back to have a go at the logs that have been getting in the way since the oak tree was lopped for fear of falling in the gales.
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Soon lunch intervened and then I had to get Percy, Sally and Michael together for a Liberal Democrat Councillors meeting to plan our council work. We met at Sally's in the end and took some time to get through all the items. Home for tea and some more log-cutting but the chain saw was proving temperamental and so I had to get on with cutting the hedge again, this time using the powerful cutters to remove whole branches and so get the hedge back from the games lawn. I was quite dirty and hot after all this and so leapt into the swimming pool to clean and cool off at the end of a hot and sunny day. I heard further from L.H. Jones that the buyers of The Lady have got their loan and the sale is now only subject to survey. As the superpower summit opens, US President George Bush is supporting Gorbachev and giving backing to his reform plans. This will help with his domestic problems but probably not enough. Britain have obtained EEC backing to get France to end the ban on imports of British Beef, but the damage to the industry is already done. The government should have acted much earlier to isolate the disease and slaughter the calves of infected animals. During appalling racial violence in Pakistan, 157 people have lost their lives as descendants of Moslem immigrants from India fight with native Sindh’s.