With Daniel tired after a late night and Debbie happily off to school on the bus, I could just do my conservatory and garden chores, undertake telephone calls and do administration on my financial affairs and book sales. I arranged to host a dinner party fpr later in the month and then went to St. Neots in late afternoon to do some payments and transfers, post my letters and got some stamps and a few items of office equipment that I was needing.
This evening to Kimbolton School for a meeting of the Kimbolton School Society Committee, which went on quite late. President Samual Doe of Liberia was captured, injured and killed by torture after his visit to the West African Peacekeeping HQ was overwhelmed by rebels, Bush is home in the US with glowing reports of his meeting with Gorbachev and the number of refugees leaving Jordan now exceeds the flood coming in from Iraqi and Kuwait. Irishman Keenan, a former Lebanese hostage, has spoken of seeing British hostage, Terry Waite.
Daniel had stayed out late last night to watch his friends bowling etc. and was paying for his intemperance this morning; being very tired and crotchety when called for breakfast. The rest of us were up and about and Debbie was again got off to school without a fuss. I managed my conservatory and garden chores and Daniel had mowed the games lawn yesterday and so it was looking very nice for a change. I made a start updating this last couple of days’ journal and then made some telephone calls and undertook administration on my financial affairs and book sales. I dealt with the most urgent outstanding matters and also arranged a dinner party for later in the month, which is a small effort to return the very many social events that we get invited to and take advantage of.
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I worked on before and after lunch and then went to St. Neots in late afternoon to do some payments and transfers, post my letters and got some stamps and a few items of office equipment that I was needing. I worked a little more this evening and then drove over to Kimbolton School for a meeting of the Kimbolton School Society Committee, which went on quite late. In view of this, I had got most of my things ready earlier for tomorrow’s trip to Heronshaw and visit to the architect in Coltishall. It was another bright day, getting sunnier and warmer later, but it was cool enough inside to make me transfer the heat from the conservatory to the lounge. President Doe of Liberia, who himself came to power by bloody insureection and murder, was captured, injured and killed by torture during his visit to the West African Peacekeeping HQ as it was overwhelmed by heavily-armed rebel opponents.
Bush is home in the US with glowing reports of his meeting with Gorbachev and, for the first time, the number of refugees leaving Jordan as exceeding the flood coming in from Iraqi and Kuwait. Irishman Keenan, a former Lebanese hostage, has spoken of British hostage, Terry Waite, being in the same building at one stage and this gives the family renewed hope as they press the British government for negotiations to secure his release.