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Seeking a progress update on Della about her getting a plaster aster and then working hard to try and sort out the party row with Michael being elusive and probably sick with the tension. Eventually relieving Diana at a busier Holly Ward with Della making progress.
Slept deeply after my exertions and stresses of yesterday. Diana took the early shift at the hospital this morning and then I went along to join her after taking Debbie to the bus stop; having carried my briefcase and portable computer in case I should be there for a while. I had been asking yesterday about what was due to take place next and this morning Mr Vaughan-Lane had called quite early to see Della and Diana. He was still planning for Della to be plastered on Thursday and had little to add during a brief visit. He was gone by the time I got there and so I took Diana down to have a coffee and then came home to leave her there.
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The long journey from Edinburgh to home to find both family and political party conflicts galore when Di, Debbie and Della could be pacified but the fall-out between Michael and Ross looked to be more intransigent.
A call at 7.00am and then breakfast at 7.30am, intending to get going by 8.00am. Breakfast took a little longer than intended and then we found the morning very cold, frosty with the thick fog leading to many radio weather warnings about black ice. We took off gingerly along the route and then made better progress on the motorways. Finally arrived at Birmingham Airport in late afternoon and swapped my things over to my own car for the rest of the journey home. I got there to find Diana there and Debbie at the hospital.
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Managing to injure my nose by falling over a chair in the dark and then trying to enjoy another wet sporting day whilst also exploring my estate and all of its features. We then went back to the hotel where we met Alan Brooks in the bar and talked about developing the White Loch for sporting use.
Then we drove as far as Edinburgh and booked into a Thistle Hotel for the night causing some consternation by taking the guns upstairs
We had booked an early morning call at 6.00am so as to get out for some shooting at dawn. The problem was that, in this large country-house hotel bedroom, I had to scramble across the room in the dark to cancel the ringing telephone and succeeded in tripping over the chair and falling on my nose! I was therefore hopping around the room, clinging to my bleeding nose which was a rather painful start to the day. The next scramble was to find some dry clothes as much of what I was wearing was still soaking wet from yesterday.
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A very enjoyable, if very wet, visit to Thormaid being shown around by area forester David Edwards and some "sport" both before and after drying out at the Forss Bridge Hotel in the company of host Ian McGregor, the proprietor. I called Hinchingbrooke and the nursing staff put Della herself onto the telephone and we had a nice chat as she told me that everything was all right.
We got 7.00am call this morning and I had a nice bath before going down to breakfast. We were all set to go by 8.00am and checked out of the hotel and drove to Broubster where we met David Edwards, the area forester. As senior forester, he had been involved with Broubster since its inception and had actually laid out Thormaid and others. He took Nigel and I on a walk from the southern edge of the estate along the western boundary past the DuLochan System.
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