160 British and Dutch peacekeeping troops were being detained by the Serbs
160 British and Dutch peacekeeping troops were being detained by the Serbs

Walk with Sam to the end of the bungalows in Crabbet’s Marsh. then home to Paxton after collecting Wiggly's car and dropping her off.

160 British and Dutch peacekeeping troops are being detained by the Serbs who claim that the move followed a misunderstanding.

I slept remarkably well after my recent exertions and having got the better of my cold. So did Wiggly but I did not think that I was going to be able to get her up to help me, fearing the morning's arrangements were going to be again down to me.

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I shared this worry with her and, to her credit, she jumped out of bed and joined me for breakfast and then to walk Sam along the sawdust road to the end of the bungalows in Crabbet’s Marsh.

The normal job of getting packed and loaded and then the journey home, stopping off at Wymondham to let Wiggly collect her car. It was ready and had a combined alarm and two-function immobiliser fitted for a total price of £199.

I was expected for lunch at 1.00pm but a little late home for Mill Lane, Little Paxton, was closed for bridge works and I had to divert through a St Neots also made busy by the shops opening on Sundays in the run in to Christmas.

Diana was nervous about her meal of roast beef but all of the family enjoyed it and were relatively well-behaved and grateful. I had returned to find all quiet on the home front and tried to spend as much of the rest of the day as possible with the family to make up for my absence.

Della had Michelle to stay overnight and they had survived the experience. Calls this evening to Wiggly, Nigel and Jim. Wiggly had arrived back safely and was busy with her work assignment etc.

I was tired and had still to take Sam for his walk and settle in but still found time to update my journal for this last few day’s events before turning in for a well-earned sleep in my own bed.

The news over the last few days has been of the growing problems in Bosnia where first the Serbs violated a UN-designated "no-fly" zone, suffered a massive air attack and then struck back by advancing on a "safe area" for Moslems at Bisach.

160 British and Dutch peacekeeping troops are being detained by the Serbs who claim that the move followed a misunderstanding.

The other main story is of the forthcoming European budgetary debate in The House of Commons in which it first seemed that sufficient dissident Tories would vote against the government to defeat them but now many of them have been blackmailed into backing down.