Five meetings today with various LibDem colleagues for Focus editorial, On-Site training PR and then two radio interviews. The unification of Germany that took place at midnight tonight.
The unification ceremony at the Brandenburg gate in its restored capital, Berlin, was a very emotional and nationalistic occasion, however, and tonight all Germans are celebrating. Germany is now a country of 79million people in 16 Länder or states, comprising 23% of the EEC population and 28% of its GNP
Another day of meetings with five in all throughout the day. But first I tended to the garden and conservatory as it all depends upon me these days. I had to sweep up all of the rear garden paving as the decorators had been messy and the leaves were now falling in sufficient quantity to foul the swimming pool. I met the decorators as they started work and asked them to try to be a bit tidier - particularly with their cigarette ends! To my office to prepare for my meetings next. I made a mistake with my journal data files and overwrote the September data which was sad but at least I printed it out first and may manage to re-enter it sometime in the future. I was all ready for the arrival of Margaret James from On-Site Training and Penny Miles from Cambridge P.R. to discuss publicising my new involvement with the company, when Michael and Sally arrived to work on their FOCUS copy and I had to set them up in the kitchen as I received my other guests in the office. We met for a couple of hours and went through my own personal career and background and then I moved the discussion on to what the company of On-Site needed to achieve in its P.R. activities; training enquiries for the existing franchises, franchise enquiries for the areas needed to complete the network, and then company and financial status as the main objectives rather than personal glorification based on my past involvement in the computer industry. There was, however, scope for drawing on my reputation to promote the company.
** "Read More" BELOW for the complete story **
Back to Michael and Sally who had just about finished typing in their FOCUS contributions and I transferred them across and printed these out so as to let the results be amended. They then left and I took Diana out for lunch at The Little Chef in Southoe. Di was grumpy at first because my friends, being in the kitchen, had interrupted her work and I also had to go to St Neots first and still get back for 2.00pm; but she softened up when we had received our food. She is also worried about Daniel who has left home and may have gone to see his friend Gary in Leicester rather than to Heronshaw as he had said. After lunch, we welcomed Percy and Michael who both worked further on FOCUS and this took all afternoon. We had a couple of radio interviews with CNFM and Radio Cambridgeshire whilst they were here as our recent bout of press releases are beginning to find their mark. We also did another press release for Percy on trees. Time for me to tend the swimming pool after tea and then came Percy briefly (who had another item he had forgotten) and after him Peter While who is undertaking the editing job for FOCUS and is making a start on it. I was laying out a completely new format for FOCUS that draws on the new "Bird of Liberty" logo.
I finished quite late as a result and my active mind did not let me sleep very well for a while. The news today was all about the unification of Germany that took place at midnight tonight. Although the movement to unite came from the East, they have been disappointed and apprehensive so far at the number of firms closing and jobs being lost. The loud and aggressive Westerners are eclipsing their society and so today was one of muted celebration. The unification ceremony at the Brandenburg gate in its restored capital, Berlin, was a very emotional and nationalistic occasion, however, and tonight all Germans are celebrating. Germany is now a country of 79million people in 16 Länder or states, comprising 23% of the EEC population and 28% of its GNP. Its head of government is Helmut Kohl and its head of state Richard von Weizsäcker, both of the former federal Germany. Police have detained suspected terrorists near to Stonehenge and they are trying to link them with the death of Sir Ian Gow. The world stock exchanges are rising again but is the recovery sound?