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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This had only just come in time as the old one was rotting badly and becoming unsafe. Most of the morning receiving and decoding weather faxes and then some of the afternoon and evening doing some overdue financial work. The house heating was hardly keeping up with the cold air as our insulation is so bad by modern standards. Another prize political row brewing as the government admits to have been in contact and negotiation with the I.R.A. and this at a time when they have been increasingly reliant upon the Unionist votes in the House of Commons. This could be a fatal blow for John Major.