After a slow start and session organising the gardener and commissioning our swimming pool, I worked at my desk, to work at my desk, entering Paxton canvas data and printing out the reports which showed that we were doing well enough to win. Then some more work on election literature and a meeting to placate Ross McKay and to hear of Di struggling today with our girls being difficult.
News of a widespread riot in California on racial issues after an all-white jury cleared police of assault on a black people despite clear video evidence to the contrary.
Another slowish start and a lay in before getting up to meet the gardener to go over all of the work that he is doing. We went through the conservatory plants and examined them and moved some. He helped me pack up the swimming pool cover and put it away and then I vacuumed the pool out and applied more chlorine to get rid of the milkiness. The pool was also clear enough to let me increase the pool temperature. Then to work at my desk, entering Paxton canvas data and printing out the reports which showed that we were doing well enough to retain Paxton with John Brown as the candidate.
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This evening, I carried on laying out the "Please Vote Today" leaflets for each of the four election wards that we are targeting in the form of mini-FOCUS’ss which I then had to distribute around the candidates to obtain their approval. I met Ross McKay at Derek's and he is very disillusioned about being left on his own to canvas Eaton Socon where we are most confident and leaving to concentrate on more marginal areas. It is actually the right thing to do but try telling him that! Today, Di went into Bedford and got my mobile telephone repaired and the girls were having one of their most difficult days, arguing and being awkward. The news today is from California where a widespread riot has broken out on racial issues. The Los Angeles Police have long had a reputation for over-reacting and beating up black people and, despite a particularly bad case being video-taped and used in evidence, an all-white jury cleared them of assault and this caused an outrage. Mass riot and looting started in "down-town" Los Angeles and overflowed to Market Street, San Francisco as the police rapidly lost control.