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A busy outdoor day; co missioning my new high-powered air rifle to go shooting and then watching Debbie play hockey and England Rugby team beat the Springboks later.
Having introduced them to the sport, my daughters had been playing frantically away at my computer games and it is now difficult to get them away.
I was determined to use my new air-rifle in earnest this morning and so I awoke before dawn and wrapped up ready to go down to the riverside gardens. I had remained awake for much of the night; both in anticipation and because Diana had heated my bed up with the electric blanket. It was very cold and frosty when I got down there and, the game being delayed, I practised with the targets setting up the telescopic sights and found that I could get them quite accurate at up to 30 yards but over 40 yards they had already dropped around three inches as they lost speed. I forewent my intended hide and sat just inside my shed to wait for game and the first was a collared dove arriving on a nearby Hawthorne tree barely 15 yards away with a purring coo.
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Catching up with domestic work in the absence f the gardener, more Financial Planning, and then successfully locating the newest "Theoben .22 Rapid 7" airgun in Norwich and setting off to buy it. Also taking Daniel to buy him a new suit. Back to Paxton to see the girls later
I was tired this morning after a couple of late nights watching TV. Being Friday, the garden chores fell to me in the absence of the gardener, and I also took a good look at the swimming pool. I needed to pull back the cover a little and vacuum out the leaves that had accumulated underneath. I set another mole trap in the area of some suspicious activity but I am less confident of success this time a the worms are beginning to hibernate or go deeper and take the moles with them.
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After failing to find Nigel contactable, I spent the day working reluctantly to overcome a backlog of financial work. – Norman Lamont’s Autumn Statement revealed a poor collection of short-term measures that will have little effect in my view
I found today very hard going. I had it in mind to get Nigel to accompany me on an airgun buying trip to St Ives but I could not find him at his office and his home telephone had been left off of the hook. I therefore had to settle down to update my financial investment summary and this was a big problem. Firstly, I had not done this since April and there had been so many transactions since. Then I no longer take the Financial Times so that I had trouble finding the data on prices that I needed. By the end of the day, I was just about knocking the thing into shape. The girls had become fascinated by using my portable computer to play Patience (or "Solitaire" as the American software authors would have it called).
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Working in my office after I suffered a poor night with a temperature, paying bills, reconciling accounts and totting up my Harnser building costs at £57,500. Just a break on Paxton Hill trying to spot the missing geese.
Three executives of a British arms company were cleared of breaking an export embargo to Iraq when it became known that cabinet ministers had encouraged them to do so and the Thatcher government seems to be culpable as these actions encouraged Sadam Hussein in his invasion of Kuwait
I had a poor night for the most part. My temperature meant that I was being disturbed by the draft from the open French Windows and only managed to get to sleep after I closed them and removed many of the bedclothes instead. I also find the bed at home very hard these days, having got used to the softer one in Norfolk. Breakfast in my dressing gown, and then to my office afterwards to first update these last two days journal. The gardener came, did the usual chores, and then gave up on clearing the leaves as the wind would give him no control over them.
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