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At home this morning on another snowy and icy day, I received my new electronic charts and spent most of the day on my computer navigation tool, breaking off at midday to see Roger Brittain to discuss my tax affairs.
Daniel arrived later and we enjoyed his company after we took his car to DAB autos to get it fixed and he enjoyed playing with my new laptop computer.
I chaired a joint Parish Council/Village Hall Committee meeting this evening and we agreed an outline design for expanding the hall.
The day started with much snow still on the ground and with an ice topping from the re-frozen melt of yesterday. School-girls on the way to St Neots were slipping and sliding down the slope to the Hayling Way. I was up early and got ready in good time for breakfast with the girls and then waited in the lounge reading this morning's newspapers until the postman arrived with the mail. I was pleased to find the new electronic charts and loaded these on to the computer. I spent most of the morning and the afternoon using the navigation planning tool, but broke off for a midday meeting with Roger Brittain to discuss my tax affairs.
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To update yesterday's journal and get some paperwork done as Debbie and Della get off to school and Daniel reports a £1,200 estimate for his car repair. My work on the LibDem FOCUS has to wait but I visit Robin Martlew in the evening to review his forthcoming May South Cambridgeshire District Council election campaign. Another Iraqi Scud missile attack on Tel Aviv which sounds like a direct hit with much damage and casualties.
A bit if a lay-in this morning after the late night, but I did not feel too bad. I searched around the house and eventually found some anti-dandruff shampoo and used it before completing my shower and getting down late to eat breakfast on my own. Debbie and Della were off to school and, after reading the papers and post, I settled down at my desk to update yesterday's journal and get some paperwork done. During the day, I managed to reconcile and update my financial affairs and then undertake a range of correspondence to get it out of the way. This left the work needed on my political activities and, although I managed to do some, I have the major task left of starting the layout of FOCUS for the forthcoming March issue and the enclosed advertising sheet.
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As Di and I start our diets, the snow means no riding for Debbie who plays with Della in the snow for a short while. The day for me spent on electronic navigation around the East Anglian coast with PC Wayplanner for which I also bought new charts and a current Almanac from L H Jones. More US air attacks are deemed necessary before a Gulf land offensive.
With the snow on the ground and just about everything cancelled, we had a nice lay in before tackling a fine fried breakfast. Despite this offering, Diana is determined to make me slimmer and remove this gross "tummy" that is hindering movement at the moment. I am struggling to get back below 14 stone but am pleased that she is applying the same rigours to her own weight and figure which means better health for her as well. No horse-riding for Debbie and so she was out with Della playing in the snow with sleds; but that did not last long as it is still bitterly cold.
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A day inside on a bitterly cold day with temperatures of -12.5degC, the coldest for four years which freeze the river and justify the use of our sled for once as the girls play out in the snow and Daniel bends his car again.
The plumber still attends to finish the piping in the Utility area and Mr Morbey fits the Sky Movie decoder for Di. The Gulf ground war seems close.
Another bitterly-cold day today as each day seems to get colder with temperatures of -12.5degC, the coldest for four years. The river is quite frozen, but never freezes beside our spring water outlet or downstream where other spring water drains out into the flow. The papers and post came this morning and I was pleased to receive the printer cable that was preventing the use of this new portable machine. No school for Debbie and so she was soon outside in the snow playing with Della and the Law children.
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