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This was typical mid-winter month for weather, starting mild but then becoming freezing cold before a milder spell with drizzle arrived on Christmas Day, thaws triggered flooding in the West Country.
Norwich was doing well in the Premier League, signing Ashley Ward and winning and drawing matches against tough opposition.
Despite my affair with Wiggly, I was busy trying to maintain family life in Paxton taking them for films, buying presents and even took Diana for a memory-lane visit to Brighton.
I carried on familarising myself with the Psion organiser and we enjoyed the Kimbolton School Prep Department for Della's last Prep Carol Service.
I had prepared The Hayling View as always for the festive period and we hosted Diana’s Christmas Eve family party with Sue across from Colchester having picked up Charles and Norma on the way.
Charlie, Chrisula and their children also arrived later Christmas Day with Diana and the family. The family opening a huge selection of presents girls got to enjoy their new bikes last and were thrilled but soon Debbie’s bike was stolen from outside the house.
When home in Paxton, I was walking Sam around Paxton Pits and was training, shooting and attending dog events with Jim and his dogs but he was getting disillusioned with his whining dog Ben and this continued as normal despite the other things dominating my life.
Nigel was also suffering from a huge cold, had horrendous business problems with MiPet and his poor dog, Sally, had died. He also had a traumatic experience threatened by a former employee.
I was maintaining life at home and took the family to Waresley Garden Centre to get the Christmas Tree.
As well as the school run, I was still going to Cambridge on Tuesdays with Diana and to the Kings Pantry lunch soup for their baked-potato lunch special
I got fever from food poisoning which was as ill as I have been all year with inexplicable sickness and fever with a raging headache, a temperature of 100F+ and near-paralyzed limbs and then contracted a cold to follow!
This was a significant time for the development of my relationship with Wiggly, both the frequency and duration of our times together threatening my long-term marriage, taking risks in being seen together with her by mutual friends of Diana.
While supposedly being in Norfolk, she was preparing nice meals for me in her Eynesbury flat in return for me doing chores such as fitting her kitchen roller blind, a heating timer and thermostat.
She was becoming upset over the limited amount of time I could spend with her but she was in better heart for our Norwich Christmas Shopping weekend as she got on top of things and then I got on top of her and needs!
Wiggly was struggling at work and I could not help her with this but could personally with a few chores such as buying cards and trying to console her with mixed results when she then had bad news about her infections, and it seemed that we were back to square one.
I had bought her a fine eternity ring, gave it to her a week before Christmas and finally won her heart back. Joint clinic visits followed to find better news for both of us as she had an ultimate clear bill of health.
Wiggly had discussed with Joanne what to say to her parents about me over Christmas as we took the risk of going together to Nigel's for his New Year Party.
There followed A sexy game of Twister modified by me to reveal the girls’ underwear until, suitably stimulated, I took Wiggly off to bed in Room 6 at Hail Weston House around 3.30am. This, before a Christmas Lunch farewell for Wiggly.
Locally, HDC buys Paxton Pits and saves the nature reserve and the Little Paxton Mill Lane bridge strengthening nearly blocks the road as a new St Neots by-pass roundabout roadworks also delays traffic.
Elsewhere, the John Major’s government's plans for Local Government Expenditure have led to cuts in services and they the natives are not happy about it.
His Government then loses the key vote on increasing VAT on fuel from 8% to 17.5% in The House of Commons and are in big trouble.
An appalling knife attack on the staff and shoppers in a Birmingham store leaves several with serious neck lacerations and the Managing Director of the Lyme Bay Activity Centre, where several children died in a tragic canoeing accident, has been jailed for three years for manslaughter.
The sad news followed was of the death of a pretty blonde 5-year-old girl from Meningitis locally and, after the confinement in hospital of her best friend, her death also.
Overseas, all except two passengers and crew were saved from the fire-struck Italian cruise liner, the Acquile Laro.
A growing crisis as a breakaway republic of Russia Bosnia is threatened by surrounding tanks and troops and talk of the UN Peacekeeping Force being withdrawn.
Five British tourists, four of them from one family, were crashed to their death on a skiing holiday in Isola near the Italian border when their Range Rover skidded off a mountain road.
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