I donated my time early on another dull and cold day today with just fifteen minutes of sun to clear up the rubbish from our recycling site and then I bought a new soldering iron and some other materials with which to repair my alarm system.
Time also for a satisfying Council meeting of leaders to agree representation after our recent election victories. The continuing Gulf War news is of the growing oil slick on the one hand and the mass exodus of Iraqi war planes to Iran on the other
It was another late night again and I was tired this morning. After breakfast, I went down to the Anchor car park and loaded the Range Rover up with a variety of cardboard boxes and other rubbish that had been littering the vicinity of our bottle and can banks. I stopped off at the St Neots Amenity Tip and disposed of all this and then I drove the car through the car wash as, with this dull and damp weather, the bodywork was in a disgusting state. I also went to an electrical wholesaler in Eynesbury and got a new soldering iron and some other materials with which to start my work on the alarm system.
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Home to get that job started and I raised the floorboards in the centre of the house and started taking the system apart. I had been getting a false alarm on one of the alarm zones and I eventually found that it was due to the wires being pierced by a sharp object. I had to go off to Huntingdon but then continued with the job on my return. I allocated the conservatory a zone of its own and also re-connected the fire alarm to the correct channel. There is still more to do in wiring the conservatory tomorrow, but at least the alarm is back in action now and was switched on for the night.
The meeting that interrupted these efforts was one between leaders of the political groups and the senior administrators of the council executive. We discussed and agreed the approach that is to be used in the future for the representation on the council and its committees and the event was quite amicable and without rancour. Another dull and cold day today but we did see the sun for about fifteen minutes this morning!
The continuing Gulf War news is of the growing oil slick on the one hand and the mass exodus of Iraqi war planes to Iran on the other, This latter move has the western military analysts completely puzzled as, although it conserves Iraq's most expensive planes, it also takes them out of the war so that they could not support the ground battle to come.