Sheridan House Glisson Road Cambridge
Sheridan House Glisson Road Cambridge

The girls back to school and me to a round of meetings both in my office and then at Glisson Road, Cambridge, where we incorporated Glisson Printers Ltd with me as Company Secretary. Then home and to agree to open the Grand Bazaar and Jumble Sale in support of the fund raising for medical treatment of Scott Peacock, a Little Paxton boy which I am pleased to do next Saturday.

There was no gradual re-introduction to things this morning as it was the first day back to school for the girls and I was hosting a crucial constituency campaign meeting for mid-morning. Della went quite happily and willingly to school having discussed her fears with Diana and Debbie beforehand which was a good way to handle her nervousness. Then I was disappointed to find the conservatory in very poor shape after my time away. On the plus side, the banana plant was sporting a beautiful cascade of miniature fruit, but most of the rest of the plants were subject to aphid attack and had succumbed to under-watering.

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I was not going to get time to speak to the gardener and so I settled his weekly bill by putting money in the book to cover it but left things at that for now. I should have given him better written instructions for our period of absence. Something of a scramble followed to get my office ready for a meeting and we ran up the percolator for the seven of us taking part. It ended up being a good meeting with a much clearer idea of what we were intending to achieve but we also went through a period of depression over the organisation of the campaign before doing so. Intentions are so well-meaning, but we are so gloomy over our deficiencies which is unnecessarily depressing. All finished by 1.00pm and after having three of our toilets in use to service the departing guests (!), I was ready for my salad lunch with Diana. I was pleased to find that I had tipped the bathroom scales at 13st 12lbs this morning, a loss of 3/4lbs on the week, which was as much the exercise as the lower eating level.

Sometime this afternoon to organise my desk but little actually achieved apart from putting things in piles for action for I was interrupted by the arrival of the St Neots Trailer people who brought the Reliant trailer for a fitting. It was very tight on measurements, and they had to arrange for some slight adjustment tomorrow, but it was pretty much there or thereabouts. Back inside for tea and then off to Cambridge for my next meeting. This time the subject was Glisson Printers and the salvage of the low-cost party printing facility that is so important for our circulation of FOCUS and election addresses.

The meeting agreed to incorporate Glisson Printers as a limited company with some £5,000 of share capital and as much again in loans to take over the useful equipment left from the former operation and buy the new technology copying machine that will make life considerably easier in the future. I agreed to be the new Company Secretary as I knew the procedures necessary under the companies acts and others will be responsible for the day-to-day running. Home by 8.30pm for once and then the rest of the evening making telephone calls and updating this last couple of days' journals. I have agreed to open the Grand Bazaar and Jumble Sale in support of the fund raising for medical treatment of Scott Peacock, a Little Paxton boy which I am pleased to do next Saturday.