On a day that started sunny but rained later, I would have liked to visit the Boat Show, but Di and Dan were not interested, and so I slept in, wrote, and attended to correspondence. My cough resumed as I took down Christmas decorations on 12th night. The news is of the Gulf and attitudes are hardening again with "negotiation" being a dirty word.
I stayed up a bit late last night watching the Vietnam film, "Apocalypse Now", but did not manage to get straight off to sleep afterwards. Still, Diana let me sleep in this morning and I was reasonably rested when coming down to breakfast at 9.00am. I tried to persuade Daniel or Diana to come to London with me to visit the International Boat Show but neither of them either wanted to go or to stay at home with Della and so the plan came to nothing. I spent my day inside for the most part, watching TV but later in my office updating my journal and attending to all matter of political correspondence etc.
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It was fine and sunny for most of today but then the rains resumed and we got more of the water that is in such short supply. Still the river has yet to flood this winter. Daniel was in this morning and afternoon and showed the girls how to play computer games which was nice. Diana took down our Christmas decorations, it being 12th night, and I switched off the outside lights and will take them down when I can. With my cough resuming, I dare not go out for very long at the moment. The news is of the Gulf and attitudes are hardening again with "negotiation" being a dirty word.