Catching up with Diana after time away and joining the family for breakfast and servicing the pond and swimming pool before enjoying a nice lunch of roast chicken with home-made apple pie and ice cream to follow . Some shopping and chores and then returning to Norfolk as the French decide on Maastricht
I had upset Diana last night by going to bed and leaving her in the lounge, but I made amends this morning by bringing her up a cup of morning coffee. Then an hour in bed with her before I got up, dressed, and joined the family for a breakfast of melon and croissants. I still think of the fine English breakfasts we used to have on Sundays but concede that the present diet is healthier and less fattening. Out to do some chores this morning as I first fed the doves and fish, backflushed the pond filter and then turned my attention to the swimming pool. I spent some time sweeping the pool surround and then vacuuming the leaves and other debris from the bottom.
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The leaves are falling now, and Autumn is with us but, although in Norfolk the swallows seems to have gone back, the Cambridgeshire House Martins gather high up in the air under the rain clouds. It was fine for most of the day until we had a shower in the afternoon. A nice lunch of roast chicken with home-made apple pie and ice cream to follow and then Di and I went off to the D.I.Y store "Great Mills" for a look at home-making materials for the fitting out of the new boathouse. Daniel had given my Range Rover a good wash and clean this morning and it was a pleasure driving it. I eventually left for my week's work in Norfolk after tea at around 6.00pm and was safely unloading in Horning two hours later. A relaxing bath and then my bedtime drink of chocolate and my journal before back to my Heronshaw bed.
The French people went to the polls today to vote "yes" to a referendum upon the acceptance of the Maastricht Treaty which agreed further measures for European unity including progress towards a common currency, foreign policy, and frontiers. However the margin was only 51% to 49% and, with Denmark already having voted "no" and with a British parliamentary reluctance due to a split Conservative Party, John Major (the current EEC President by rotation) has problems on his hands.