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A slow start to the day but then progress in listing outstanding jobs and good news with Della’s acceptance by Kimbolton School. My afternoon Onsite Board Meeting was a depressing affair with no successful business formula for the company nor a way of solving their acute cash flow position.
More skirmishes with Iraqi planes now having undertaken more sorties but losing two more in battle. The US military now admit 22 Scuds fired on Saudi Arabia (18 shot down) and 13 on Israel (1 destroyed) which is more than previously admitted.
I had gone to bed very late again last night and was tired when woken up this morning. Slow to get down to breakfast to find that Debbie had already gone off to school. I was pleased to get a letter from Kimbolton School that confirmed that Della had secured a place for entry into the Preparatory Department and will start in September. Della seemed pleased as well, but Diana was rather ambivalent, being nervous on her behalf. She had worried about Debbie in the same way, but her fears turned out to be unfounded.
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Working at home this morning preparing for my evening HDC Finance & GP Committee and taking and making all manner of phone calls. The meeting went well, as I successfully highlighted the poor council service plans for next year.
The number of Israeli injured has risen with Scud attacks to just under 100 due to the collapse of a two-storey apartment building but the air war continues.
To bed a little late and then up a little early. The Israeli news was clearer this morning with the three dead confirmed as old women (one crushed and two from heart attacks) but the number of injured has risen to just under 100 due to the collapse of a two-storey apartment building. The war news is of border skirmishes between Iraqi and US troops on the Saudi border as both sides try the other out on reconnaissance sorties. The weather has cleared to a certain extent and the Allied air attacks and reconnaissance were resumed but this time the Tornados joined other fighter-bombers in attacking the targets from a safe height.
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A day at home after a good night’s sleep, supervising a bonfire and taking some phone calls from the press and District Council. Then to Cambridge this evening to a meeting of the S.W. Cambs Executive to discuss party issues.
Our UK aircraft losses in the Gulf war are a worry as were continuing Scud missile attacks on Tel Aviv
I had a good night's sleep - the nearest to a full seven hours that I have had since the Gulf War broke out. I got up at 7.00am to the radio news and had a little trouble with my eye which was sore. Since an accident with my daughter a few years ago, my left eye is always a bit sore if dry of tears and with my cold and loss of liquids this was the case after I had inadvertently rubbed it. Shaved and dressed for breakfast and then back to my office to do some work whilst keeping abreast of the news from the Gulf. I then spent time in the garden where I lit a bonfire now that the breeze was from the north-east. I tried to dispose of the existing brazier of waste (which I did) and then the branches from the Silver Birch tree that I cut back the other day (which I could not).
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A slow start to the day after my late retirement and so I had to join Diana later for coffee in St Neots where I also bought a small TV to watch the Gulf War news in my office.
Nine captured pilots from America, Britain, Kuwait were paraded on Baghdad TV as the day begun with another Scud attack on Saudi Arabia and the House of Commons debated the war today. There has been more trouble in the Baltic states with the Soviet authorities using "black-berets" to attack the local nationalist efforts to secede from the USSR.
I slept reasonably-well last night but was still tired this morning in view of my late nights and early mornings. The news from the Gulf today is of the parading on Baghdad TV of nine captured pilots from America, Britain, Kuwait etc. Western spokesmen were outraged by this breach of the Geneva Convention on the exposure of prisoners, particularly after the Iraqis announced that they will now be placed at industrial and economic locations. I got showered and dressed quite late and then decided to go to St Neots with Diana but she upset me by already having left. I caught up with her in town and we both did some chores and then had a coffee together. I bought a new 15-inch Toshiba 155T9BZ teletext colour TV today at the sale price of £240 which I brought home and installed in my office so that I could keep up with the war and economic news whilst working in my office. A number of telephone calls this afternoon as I did a little work and then, this evening, I updated my journal and worked on a number of other items.
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