Celebrating this newly-featured event with my girls receiving huge cards, badges and some fudge they had made after a non-friend breakfast and hearing that there would be no help from Steve as he was having to stay with Mary who seems to have some breast cancer lumps.
A day watching England lose a closely fought match of Test Cricket on the TV punctuated by a social lunch with Di's parents who came over for a fine meal of beef. I then enjoyed some quite warm and sunny weather on the games lawn helping the girls to play tennis.
Violent mistrust and tension between the ANC and Zulus, in South Africa made worse by a trigger-happy white police force and at home John Major taking over the Presidency of the EEC and trying unsuccessfully to head off central integration of Maastricht by enlargement
I was not to spend much time on my forthcoming building project today: The only thing I could do there was to try to recruit the help of Steven for this week's site work and then I drew a blank as he was having to stay with Mary who seems to have some breast cancer lumps. The day started with what has become the normal breakfast for us - just cereal, as I am no longer allowed a fried meal - and then the chores took most of the morning as I gave the swimming pool a good clean. However, today was "Father's Day", a growing occasion in the spirit of Mothers Day, for cards and celebration and the girls gave me huge cards, badges and then treated me to some fudge they had made especially for the occasion (though eating most of it themselves).
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Then Test Cricket on the TV which occupied most of the rest of the day, punctuated by a social lunch with Di's parents who came over for a fine meal of beef originally intended for sharing with Daniel and Angela. Back to the TV but, in a closely fought match, England lost and I then spent some time on the games lawn with the girls helping them to play tennis. Even Della is now beginning to be able to hit the ball. It was this evening, that I got back to the problems of building the boat-shed and when I came to the conclusion (not for the first time) that I could not rely on Steven for my project and would have to spend lots of time on it myself this summer.
The weather today was calmer than of late and quite warm and sunny. Problems in South Africa where a combination of violent mistrust and tension between the ANC and Zulus, combined with a trigger-happy white police force, seems to be leading to a total breakdown of the conciliation process. With John Major taking over the Presidency of the EEC, his scheme is to try to accelerate the enlargement of the membership to head off central integration but the other EEC partners are wise to this and will progress Maastricht first now that Ireland has voted for it in their referendum.