This was Father's Day coinciding with the start of fishing season but I still had an Eaton Socon meeting with Derek and Sally to come up with some good schemes and comments for next Tuesday's HDC Leisure and Amenities Committee.
We also welcomed Di’s father Charles with Daniel and Angela for a fine roast beef lunch on a day when I worked on both the Rolls Royce and the Reliant. This evening to Debbie’s parents meeting at Kimbolton School for a much better report than we ever got for Daniel!
We had a bit of a lay in this morning and, once I had woken, I got quickly dressed and did the morning chores before breakfast. The anglers were fishing the river in numbers, obviously pleased that the season had started again. It was a nice fried meal and also an occasion for my daughters to give me Father's Day cards and presents together with kisses. Daniel was down later and also gave me a card but no present or kiss! This morning, I got the tyres pumped up on the Rolls Royce and, having already charged the battery, managed to start the car and drive it out of the garage. I had a slight scare when there was petrol streaming from the engine compartment, but it was some part of the fuel system sticking which soon resolved itself. I took the car for a run and was hoping to use it to travel to a meeting in Eaton Socon, but the battery was not charging sufficiently, and I decided I might need a new one.
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The meeting was to prepare for next Tuesday's HDC Leisure and Amenities Committee and, with Derek and Sally, we came up with some good schemes and comments on the committee's business for them to pursue. Back in time for lunch which was of nice roast beef in the company of Diana's father, Charles Jackson, who is on his own at the moment. This made for quite a full dinner table - what with Daniel and Angela as well. I was dodging the heavy showers this afternoon whilst pumping up the tyres on the Reliant and then letting it down off of its axle jacks until it was on its own three wheels.
I cleared up the garage and set up battery chargers to charge both Reliant and Rolls batteries overnight and then, after tea, it was time to go to Kimbolton School and hear Debbie's school teachers tell of her progress at the end of her first full year in the Main School. Overall, they were very pleased with her attitude and progress and we have few problems to worry about; which is quite a contrast with the story we used to get for Daniel. Home quite late and, after getting the cars put away and the house put back into reasonable shape, I had another quite early night.