After a family breakfast on a sunny and fine day, with still a fresh wind from the west., I spent this morning working on my journal and then helping John Roscoe with a computer printing problem as Daniel and Angela hosted friends swimming, watching satellite TV and playing croquet on the games lawn.
The news is still of the economy where the ramifications of the recent bank failure are still sinking in and as Bank of England reduced the interest rates again as they try to keep the pound on parity in the EMS.
Having gone to bed on time last night, Diana joined me later and then I slept until around 7.00am this morning. There was one disturbance at 11.45pm when the telephone rang and somebody, Daniel presumably, answered it. I dressed in shorts, sandals, and a tee-shirt this morning, hoping for fine weather as it looked hopeful with the sun shining. First, I had the chores to do and tended to the fish, doves and conservatory and then I enjoyed a lovely fried breakfast with the family; that is most of the family, except Daniel who was late to rise again. After this, I spent the morning updating this last few days' journal that I had not time to do whilst being in the boat.
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I also had John Roscoe as a visitor, and I helped him set up the Amstrad with his printer so as to be able to print out all of the canvassing data for the start of canvassing for the August 8th Eaton Socon by-election. I had time to make telephone calls to Ross McKay, Derek Giles and Sue Sutton to update them on the progress that had been made as there had been worries and concern whilst I was away. During the afternoon, the remainder of the canvas data was printed out and I also re-organised the Eaton Socon data files to prepare them for new data in the August 8th by-election. Daniel had Angela and his friends here today; swimming, watching satellite TV and playing croquet on the games lawn but I think that Angela really wanted more attention and to be with him alone, if only he would realise it. I settled down to a pile of correspondence this evening and then turned into bed early, leaving Diana to watch the TV again. I was planning to get up early to do some more paperwork before going over to White House Marina at 8.00am to see about getting my boat fixed. The day was sunny and fine, but still a fresh wind from the west. The news is still of the economy where the ramifications of the recent bank failure are still sinking in. The Bank of England reduced the interest rates by another half percent, even though the inflation figures are not improving, as their sole aim seems to be to keep the pound on parity in the EMS.