A busy day of phone calls, office work and FOCUS copy as I was renewing the insurance for The Paxton Princess and finding out more about Hugh Hunter, whose news of death we have withheld from Della as she recovered.
I spent the entire day at home again, foregoing different opportunities to attend meetings in favour of getting some "real" work done. It was a late start again but then the morning was given over to updating my action list of priority tasks followed by the necessary action to get many of them underway. I telephoned and faxed marine insurance brokers about my requirements for renewing the policy for The Paxton Princess and then got back some prices accordingly.
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Longer conversations with my political colleagues throughout the day that led to the planning being done for this month's FOCUS and got me up to speed on what was happening with Town and District Council matters. Calls also to village contacts to catch up on Paxton developments for the FOCUS copy which I then drafted out in the evening. We had not yet had the heart to tell Della about Mr Hunter but will have to do so soon and that is a task that we are not looking forward to. I heard today that he was actually 70 years old, and the truth is that he went the way he would have liked - still working at running a successful school. He was due to take a key role a dame in the school pantomime. The challenge will be to continue the school formula of combining the academic and social priorities that were his hallmark. Another mild day that saw Bill using up all of the ballast that I had carted down from Cosy Corner. I must now await a decent frost so that we can get across the lawns.