UN and NATO airplanes bomb a Serb-held Croation air base of Ubdina
UN and NATO airplanes bomb a Serb-held Croation air base of Ubdina

Two dog training sessions, locally and at Molesworth Financial coordinated with essential paperwork, dog training before watching a televised football match and helping with the girls homework.

Startling news today as a combined force of UN and NATO warplanes bombs a Serb-held Croatian air base of Ubdina to try to put their planes out of action and make them conform to no-fly zones.

The mild month has led to some plants and shrubs being confused into thinking it is spring.

I was tired after my travels and slept so very soundly that I was reluctant to wake up when called at 7.00am.

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Then to swiftly shave, shower and dress and a light breakfast of melon and porridge before out with Sam early enough to be able to accompany the girls on their walk to the bus stop.

Saw them safely off and, after completing a low-key training walk with Sam, came home to process a large pile of income cheques and expenditure bills so that I could give them to Diana to deal with during her trip to St Neots this morning.

I left her with the choice of two afternoon performances of our customary Monday Bedford film, but she was not back early enough for the first one and only then realised that we could not get home from the second one in time to be home for Della's return from school!

I find myself a less patient person these days which is probably due to my tiredness. A longer walk for Sam in the afternoon as I went up to Molesworth and took him around the upland area.

Just about all of these fields are now put down to winter wheat which is growing well in this milder weather but shows no real sign of pressure from rabbits or pigeons. There was no pigeons on the rape by the A14 either and all of the land was sopping wet and greasy whi

ch also acts to deter the birds from settling and turning their feet into mud balls. Watched an exciting evening TV football match and saw lowly Everton beat Liverpool to give them some hope of avoiding relegation.

A call to Wiggly who started off chatty and happy but then seemed to get depressed as I was not going round to see her. I was right to stay at home for I had to give Debbie a lot of help in getting to grips with some complex trigonometry that she had for her homework.

Startling news today as a combined force of UN and NATO warplanes bombs a Serb-held Croatian air base of Ubdina to try to put their planes out of action and make them conform to no-fly zones.

Britain's contribution is two Harriers flying out from HMS Invincible and four Jaguars from RAF Marham out of the 39 planes. The school performance "league tables" are published for the second year to another tumult of criticism as to them being unrepresentative.

It now seems that there is a developing consensus that they should incorporate an "added value" bias in the future to take account of the difference in their intake and resources. The mild month has led to some plants and shrubs being confused into thinking it is spring.

The gardener brought some roses in after pruning their bushes, the Jasmine around our swimming pool is covered in yellow flowers and a neighbour's tree with pink blossom.

Elsewhere, others are still picking raspberries and summer flowers. The first six winners of the National Lottery Jackpot just fail to become millionaires, receiving £839,254 each.