What was planned to be an uninterrupted day, started with a call from Alf asking me to see Freda in hospital. I managed to edit and print out the FOCUS contributions from my colleagues and then took my my portable Amstrad computer round to Derek Giles and helped him. The weather was milder again today and very wet. The USAF is attacking the Iraqi forces mercilessly which have retreated from Kuwait and are cut off in southern Iraq.
I anticipated a relatively uninterrupted day to get on with my FOCUS work and remains of my present tax planning chores but first I had a call from brother-in-law Alf who confirmed that Freda was in Norwich hospital and asked if I could get to see her this weekend. I will try to get up there as I also have to bring Daniel home to pick up his car which we hope will be ready this weekend. The overnight news was still of the USAF attacking the Iraqi forces which have retreated from Kuwait and are cut off in southern Iraq, The USSR and other countries are bitterly complaining about this activity which seems to lack any restraint or compassion.
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For my part today, I managed to edit and print out the FOCUS contributions from Michael, Sally and Percy and also undertook some tax planning by disposing of more children’s shares to exploit the annual CGT exemptions. This evening, I took my portable Amstrad computer round to Derek Giles house and helped him and a colleague to input the Eaton Socon copy for FOCUS. I also dropped off copies to further colleagues to get their reactions on the copy on the latest issues; especially on the comments I wrote on the Gulf conflict. I anticipated that the fighting would soon cease, and the war would be over and so the note I was adopting was on the inevitability of the war, and our support for it, but also of the differences on timing and efforts we have taken on the related humanitarian matters.
I was quite late home after all this but satisfied over the progress that I had made today. The weather was milder again today and very wet. Quite heavy rain started this morning and then continued heavier as the day went on.