An organising day spent tending Sam with his cough and then preparing the Rolls Royce for its MOT retest and struggling to re-insure my Land Rover Discovery.
The evening trying without success to contact people about election preparations and so turned to my journal and other general correspondence and telephone calls.
Another one-day rail strike as the government still prevents British Rail from settling with the signalmen's union.
I opted to walk Sam early and late today so as to have much of the working day in my office. The poor thing is coughing occasionally at the moment but then there is so much pollen and vegetation seed around that it might just be that.
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His training is taking a bit of a back seat but those things that I ask him to do, he does satisfactorily. Della walked him to the bus stop and seems to be able to handle him all right. Much of the morning trying to organise the Rolls Royce MOT so that it will be ready to sell when the Exchange & Mart come out with its advert.
I ordered a pair of seat belt stems from a dealer first thing and got the money transferred to his building society so that they were posted today. Then I arranged for Cambridge Street Motors to take a look at the car on Friday when they will effect a bandage repair on the exhaust, free off the binding front brake and bolt on the replacement stems.
Lastly. I set up Market Square Garage to re-test the car later that day and so I hope that all will go well and that it will be ready for prospective buyers to consider at the weekend. Next, a series of telephone calls and then faxes about re-insuring my Land Rover Discovery. I was querying why there were no insurance discounts available for the Land Rover alarm/immobiliser in view of its performance when compared with the seven other manufacturer's systems that are so included.
Next discussions with a Ropes Hill Dyke property-owner about our response the Broads Plan before time to write a long-overdue letter to the District Council reporting the houseboat being used close to here without planning permission. A whole host of other matters including bills to pay and calls to make.
The evening trying without success to contact people about election preparations and so turned to my journal and other general correspondence and telephone calls. Another one-day rail strike as the government still prevents British Rail from settling with the signalmen's union led by Jimmy Knapp.