A late start after a poor night, but then Di took the girls shopping, as I worked on building society accounts and things with a lit fire in my office each side of a Radio Chiltern interview. Then to St Neots for chores and back for some evening television with news of the Gulf deadline being only a week away with our nation in war fever.
It was a poor night for Diana and me. I think that we had let the room get too warm on a day that was not quite so cold as of late. This morning, I missed Daniel at the breakfast table as he had already gone to work by the time I came down. This was a pity as I heard that he was now suffering from the cold and was not very well. The last day at home for Della before going back to school the next day and that will be a relief for Di and I. Diana had taken Debbie shopping this morning and I tried to keep Della happy, but it was quite a job. I lit the fire and attended to my chores and then spent most of the day in my office, working on administration. It was my building society affairs that was taking time and also some more correspondence and pressing political matters.
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I was also interviewed by the Chiltern Radio news journalist and my interview (about local prisoners escaping) was broadcast every hour for most of the afternoon and evening. Later this today, I went into St Neots, posted my letters, visited two building societies and then drove the Range Rover through the car wash as Daniel does not seem to clean it for me any more even though I am paying him £20 per day! Watched the television with Diana for far too long this evening and then updated my journal before making my own bed-time drink and going to bed. It is sad to see the lack of festive lights now that 12th night has passed. The news is of the Gulf as the deadline is only a week away. The Iraqis ask for an extension to the deadline and the British Labour Party calls for delays in military action and more time for negotiation and for sanctions to work and I agree with them. Unfortunately, the nation is now in war fever and I do not think we win many friends for questioning the process. There will be another time.