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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For this mid-winter month, the weather started mild and sunny too but was then very wet and windy for Nigel's shooting day before became stormy but still mild and wetter all the time.
It then became icy as the water levels came up and the temperatures dropped further and freezing fog followed with thick rhyme encasing twigs and grass so that the trees were covered in snow-like ice.
This, until milder weather and drizzle arrived on Christmas Day and it stayed mild thereafter. The year ended with West Country floods where rivers became swollen and overflowed their banks
I watched Norwich beat Chelsea with their new signing from Crewe, Ashley Ward, in the starting line-up and scoring two goals. Norwich City beat Crystal Palace and Norwich City Reserves did well as youngster Jamie Cureton scored twice in an exciting match despite the cold that ended 2-2.
It was then that I got fever from food poisoning and was as ill as I have been all year and then contracted a cold to follow. I managed a Boxing Day trip to Norwich with Jim to watch Norwich lose out to Tottenham in an exciting match at Carrow Road. I then watched Norwich City beat 4th-placed Newcastle 2-1 at Carrow Road for a midday football match.
I had gone home to The Hayling View to catch up on Christmas plans with the family and stored the girl’s new mountain bikes in the garage. I took Di and Girls to select £35 Christmas Tree then got the decorations down from the loft and lights up on the balcony.
This month, I enjoyed an evening playing with Debbie and updating my journal before organising a family cinema evening out in Bedford watching "Never Ending Story III". Di takes delivery of new corner cabinet and dishwasher but the necessary trims had to wait.
There were still opportunities to take the family out for lunch at the Little Paxton Little Chef opposite now that the Southoe branch had closed.
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 on Christmas Day with Diana and the family opening a huge selection of presents and the girls got to enjoy their new bikes at last and were thrilled.
Unhappily, we then came home to Paxton to find Debbie’s new mountain bike stolen having been left outside and a fruitless search failed to retrieve it. I drove from Paxton to Brighton for a 26th Anniversary Holiday with Diana, staying in the Brighton Thistle Hotel.
I treated her to a meal in Brown’s during a comfortable Brighton stay in a warm room and then had sex with a condom later on our 26th Anniversary. There followed a good shopping outing for both of us and then chance to see the film "The Specialist" at the Cannon Cinema before dinner at a nice Chinese Restaurant.
The drive from Brighton to Paxton after this break and memory lane visits to Shoreham and Falmer giving over the driving seat to Diana as I carried on familarising myself with my new Psion organiser.
This month marked a significant time for the development of my relationship with Wiggly, with both the frequency and duration of our times together threatening my long-term marriage with Diana and I was demonstrating an apparent willingness to take risks in being seen together with Wiggly by mutual friends of Diana.
I was supposed to be in Norfolk but was making secret journeys to see Wiggly and combined this with an election-planning LibDems meeting. She was preparing nice meals for me in return for me doing chores such as fitting her kitchen roller blind, a heating timer and thermostat.
I was not always available and so had to let her go with her gay friend Michael for a Friday night gig at The Old Falcon, but I then visited her the following day to see her and took her out for a meal in Cambridge.
I was increasingly facing conflicts of time and opportunity between ladies but tried to drop by for a couple of hours’ cuddles and organised her pantomime sponsorship and party.
She was becoming upset over the amount of time I could spend with her but at least we discussed it and parted on good terms. We were all friends again a couple of days later when I called on the way to Norwich and we had a Chinese meal out; but I had then started to have trouble satisfying Wiggly due to trying to make love too quickly.
There followed lunch at The Bedford Arms with a tired and contemplative Wiggly, 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 too!
Things were therefore better, but I then had a difficult call to make the next day. She was experiencing work problems as her boss pressed her hard to succeed in landing an American project.
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 at seemed that we were back to square one.
It was then a Chinese Restaurant meal and night together that did the trick. I had bought her a fine eternity ring, gave it to her a week before Christmas and finally won her heart. Joint clinic visits followed to find better news for both of us as she had an ultimate clear bill of health.
We saw the film "Nightmare before Christmas", together, a ghoulish cartoon which was quite horrifying really but we enjoyed it. This was part of a London Shopping and Football Trip with Wiggly, enjoying coffee in The Imperial Hotel before shopping at High & Mighty in Oxford Street for me and then buying a nice red miniskirt and matching top for her.
Then back to Montague Street for the night after fun in Hyde Park. Then to stay again with Wiggly for another warm and productive night before taking Sam for a short run at Coneygear. This whilst Wiggly had discussed with Joanne what to say to her parents.
Off to Norfolk again and we arrived in early evening and then went out to try to find a jazz club in Norwich without much success. Finally, on to The Iron Duke, which was a homely and quaint pub some shopping buying some clothes and then leaving for Eynesbury again, where we had a light tea of home-made chicken soup and Christmas cake.
Then to Nigel's for his New Year Party with Wiggly. A sexy game of Twister modified by me to reveal the girls’ underwear until off to bed in Room 6 at Hail Weston House around 3.30am. before a Christmas Lunch farewell for Wiggly.
Nigel was also suffering from a huge cold, had horrendous business problems with MiPet and his poor dog, Sally, had died. Sam Weller's Francis develops breast lumps and he has his stress symptoms.
When home in Paxton, I was walking Sam around Paxton Pits and managed a clearer day for shooting in the field opposite, between more bracing walks with Sam in the cold. I was training, shooting and attending dog events with Jim and his dogs continued as normal despite the other things dominating my life.
Even so, after struggling with Sam’s training, I once gave the GSP Club training day a miss. Then, another time, I had struggled to wake Nigel at Hail Weston House to arrive late at a Peterborough shoot.
I was combining the afternoon shooting on Mill Meadow and evening obedience training. Sam enjoyed hunting and pointing for rabbits on the Eynesbury to Eaton Socon riverbank as, often being short of time, I reverted to just walking him in view of my training difficulties but we still attend obedience training where he improves with other dogs.
I quartered across Mill Field set aside but he was outfoxed by wild hen pheasants. I sat in a hide for abortive pigeon shooting but he retrieved ducks willingly from the river.
During all this, I was surprisingly maintaining life at home and took the family to Waresley Garden Centre to get the Christmas Tree. When I found time to take the girls to the bus stop, I was pleased to see how friendly the Paxton Kimbolton Schoolchildren remained.
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. Off to Norwich for Diana's Christmas shopping expedition before going home to put up the Christmas Lights. Then a meal at McDonalds and then on to the cinema to see "Miracle on 42nd Street"; a remake of the old film.
By this time, the old building of Heronshaw was nearly demolished and the replacement was now costed at £60-70,000 and so I was constantly liaising with the Wroxham builders accordingly. I supervised the demolition of Heronshaw in three visits and reorganised the garage for storage and use. I was starting the task of reclaiming the larger timber baulks and designing the building replacement.
My two best friends were struggling. Nigel had a traumatic experience threatened by a former employee and Jim was getting disillusioned with his whining dog Ben. I enjoyed the Kimbolton School Prep Department for Della's last Prep Carol Service and the year ended with my financial paperwork working on my Investment Summary for the end of April 1994
I suffered a day of inexplicable sickness and fever with a raging headache, a temperature of 100F+, near-paralyzed limbs and felt hot and then cold in consequence. I managed recuperation from possible food poisoning and then time in Norfolk, tidying up salvaged timber and working in Horning planning my Heronshaw rebuilding.
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.
Plans for Local Government Expenditure have led to the need to cuts in services and the local councillors are not happy about it. John Major’s Government loses the key vote in The House of Commons on increasing VAT on fuel from 8% to 17.5% and are in big trouble.
Chancellor Kenneth Clarke announced his micro-Budget still smarting over his House of Commons defeat. An appalling knife attack on the staff and shoppers in a Birmingham store leaves several with serious neck lacerations.
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 of the confinement in hospital of her best friend and subsequent death also.
All except two passengers and crew were saved from the fire-struck Italian cruise liner, the Acquile Laro, and were taken aboard a tanker and thence to a flotilla of other ships.
News of 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.