Another very cold day spent mostly inside sorting out property and investment files and arranging to meet Fountain Forestry George McRobbie in Birmingham next week to review Thormaid.
Then outside for a couple of hours checking out the Rolls Royce and clearing leaves from the gutters before progressing FOCUS and being interviewed by two radio stations. The news from the Maastrict negotiations is all about the Major government being dragged into closer European unity with great reluctance on economic and foreign policy.
The three largest former members of the Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine and Bueno Russia) have spurned Gorbachev's proposals for a new federation and have declared the formation of a Commonwealth based in Minsk. The Maxwell empire is all in ruins with the latest deficits on the pension funds being estimated at £575million.
A day in the pattern of others recently; very cold but spent for the most time inside. I had been sorting out my forestry file and then extended this to my National Savings files when I found out more about the terms for re-investment presently available. Made a number of telephone calls to progress my affairs and received one from George McRobbie and arranged to meet him in Birmingham next week. I will be quizzing him on his company's plans for managing my forest in Caithness and then resolving with him what to do about improving the sporting potential. Still time to write and fax a press release on District Council affairs before Diana returned from her shopping and prepared the lunch.
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Outside for a couple of hours this afternoon hoping to clear all of the leaves from the gutters but it took me an hour with the ladder to clear those on the back of the house. At least that finished off the need for a ladder and, whilst I had the Rolls Royce out to get to it, I started it up and took it for a run to charge up the batteries, top up the petrol tank and pump up the tyres. It was fine apart from being the very devil to start and then the air-conditioning did not work! I tried to play with Della before tea but Percy came round to get me to scan a cartoon for John Roscoe to incorporate in the centre of FOCUS. There then came a couple of calls from radio stations Radio Cambridgeshire and C.N.F.M.103 and I was interviewed about the actions of the "blue meanies" and was criticising them for spending less on amenities and charging the public more for them. I worked on the financial items again this evening and then found a little time for Della before retiring to my office to update my journal. The news from the Maastrict negotiations is all about the Major government being dragged into closer European unity with great reluctance on economic and foreign policy but threatening to resist completely on social issues due to its political dogma. The three largest former members of the Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine and Bueno Russia) have spurned Gorbachev's proposals for a new federation and have declared the formation of a Commonwealth based in Minsk. The Maxwell empire is all in ruins with the latest deficits on the pension funds being estimated at £575million.