Our overnight worry about Della’s drama debut was avoided by a delay to the event and I had time to walk Sam twice and get him to do land and water retrieves even in the rain.
As Di visited her parents in Cambridge today, I worked on overdue paperwork and sorted out my navigational software.
The assumptions behind the Home Secretary’s ‘Law and Order’ plans crack down on benefits for single mothers have been discredited.
Rather a fuss as we came to bed last night. Della had volunteered to take part in some dramatic art at school today and Diana had improvised a "Town Crier's" costume for her and she was nervously anticipating the event and being reluctant to go to bed last night. In the event, her schoolmaster was ill today, and the event was called off! One dry and one wet walk with Sam today as the rain moved across the country from the west and a south-westerly airstream returned again.
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He did some good retrieves and I even subjected him to a couple of water retrieves this evening as he was cold and wet anyway. Even so, he was a bit reluctant, but we got both dummies back in the end. Pity he over-ran a pheasant this morning because it is difficult enough for me to find one for him to try pointing these days. Diana went to Cambridge to do some more Christmas shopping and see her parents again today but I stayed at home and worked on my overdue paperwork.
I do not know what was worse; having to work at my desk or watch Bill do the gardening and, in doing so, ignore my suggested routine for clearing up and shredding the leaves! A couple of calls to P.C. Maritime only to find out that their catalogue of electronic charts was still as confusing and out of date as ever but I did decide to order the 1994 Tidal Data disc and Version 7 of the Facsimile programme that now includes Navtex.
The Home Secretary flexing muscles with talk of new laws to curtail the activities of suspects on bail but his plans to crack down on the welfare benefits of single mothers runs into trouble with the leak of a cabinet report that reveals that there is no evidence that such children are likely to get into trouble with the law or their mothers deliberately get pregnant to get council housing.