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Paxton to Horning after training Sam in the water at the gravel pits, reviewing property acquisitions and investment forms. A foggy and murky journey but a fair one in time for some work before dark.
The evening running my new Amstrad computer weather forecast set-up before my journal, my bath and my bed.
The weather had turned wet and mild overnight with the wind first strong and then moderating towards dawn so that it was much more pleasant for me to walk Sam. In fact, I got him into the water over at the gravel pits as he has to learn to enter cold water willingly which will be vital when being a gun dog in earnest. This was a vindication of my decision to get Bill mowing the lawn yesterday, but he did not necessarily see it that way and was complaining about being out in the cold. I gave him some more tasks for the day and then got back to my office where I had urgent calls to make.
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Daniel at home off ill on an even chillier day for waking Sam, but he was able to help me as I upgraded the Amstrad memory to run under Windows. Della was writing a speech this evening all about Sam and will take his rosette, shield and some photographs into school.
Concerning the talks with the I.R.A., the government is being supported by the opposition parties in the interests of trying to find a solution to this intractable problem
It was another bitterly cold morning with a slight frost and much more wind chill as the breeze strengthened from the south-east and thus from central Europe. I had bathed last night and so had just a wash and shave this morning before joining the others for breakfast. Poor Daniel did not feel up to work and stayed in bed early and late; just perking up enough to be helpful to me for some of the day.
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A much colder and breezy day at home for two chilly walks with Sam outside as I worked inside on decoding weather faxes and completing paperwork.
Irish Revelations as John Major admits to negotiations with the IRA
Daniel was a bit better this morning and recovered enough to eat and use his computer a bit before slumping back onto the settee. The south-easterly breeze was picking up and temperatures dropping as the wind chill factor combined with the colder incoming continental air. Two brisk and chilly walks with Sam, during which I saw the County Council completing the installation of a new wooden pedestrian footbridge over the Paper Mill Sluice.
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The weather had been cold, misty and windless as we were in the middle of an area of high pressure as I could monitor between walking Sam and doing financial work.
Poor Daniel was still unwell after catching influenza and so I could only take the girls and Daniel's friend Gary to The Little Chef for lunch.
Later, watching England beat The All Blacks on goal kicks. A quick tea of kippers and then I took the girls out to see the film "Hocus Pocus" in Peterborough. Very corny and quite scary but we all enjoyed it.
I had been watching the weather with even closer interest than normal now that I had really understood how to receive weather charts by radio. By de-modulating the upper side band of short-wave broadcasts from Bracknell and Northwood. I am getting the same information as the regional weathermen. I could see why the weather had been cold, misty and windless as we were in the middle of an area of high pressure but now this was moving slowly eastwards and the Atlantic low-pressure areas were forcing there way towards the country.
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