The morning and most of the afternoon on a much warmer and sunnier day catching up on my finances and then some Dentistry and Mayor-making orchestrating a potential deal with the Tories to outflank Labour’s Daisy Seager who seems unwilling to cooperate. John Major defends his National Health reforms and agrees to meet the B.M.A.
I was due to spend the day at home, working on my paperwork and I managed to do so for the most part, sorting out all of my papers and then updating my bank and building society accounts. I had a couple of month's bank reconciliations to do, and this took some effort before I finally completed as much as I could. I continued to work both sides of lunchtime, as the time ticked by and I eventually gave up in mid-afternoon, when it was time to go over to a dentist's appointment in Kimbolton with Diana and Della. Debbie was due to go with us but was off by coach today for a school history project. I had a clean bill of health from Dr Osborne but, after seeing Della's new teeth, he gave us advance warning that she would benefit from cosmetic surgery to cure a "large over-bite" and then braces to keep her teeth straight for a while. I picked up the local papers whilst I was out and then got Diana to drop me off in St Neots on the way back.
** "Read More" BELOW for the complete story **
I paid in some cheques to the building society that had been hanging round for a while gathering dust and then paid in some eleven cheques to the children’s' National Savings accounts that had been waiting even longer as I had been so busy. Then on by foot to see Sally and there to advise and reassure her about the best course to take with the Mayor-making negotiations where, despite press stories pointing to a hung council and an un-cooperative Daisy Seager, we will be sailing on regardless, seeking support for the election of Michael Pope as Town Mayor. Now there will be a meeting between Sally and Michael on our side and Alan Sharpe and Graham Hunt on the other to take place next Saturday. Our aim is to out-flank Daisy and get an accommodation with the Tories that can work to our mutual advantage. Home by route X1 bus and, after tea, I did a little more work and made some more telephone calls.
Then to update my journal and listen to the national news. There is election fever in the air as John Major defends his National Health reforms and agrees to meet the B.M.A. The Tories challenge the economic and spending forecasts of the Labour Party as the current by-election runs its course. We have a bye-election in Stapleford (part of the South Cambridgeshire District in the S.W. Cambs Constituency) and have only a Green candidate to fight which should prove to be the formula for a gain. The weather was much warmer and sunnier today and my office was getting uncomfortably warm at one stage before I went out for a breath of fresh air. The girls used the swimming poll this evening for once, which was nice.