Returning to the custom of visiting Cambridge with Diana to see her parents and looking at bedding.
Then working Sam at Molesworth Manor Farm and pleased with his hunting performance before a frustrating St Neots Branch LibDem meeting where Ross McKay was expelled from the group.
Labour leader Tony Blair is set on ending the party pledge for public ownership and in an historic judgement, a group of Lloyds Insurance Names have won £500m damages for negligence against the underwriters which is in effect themselves!
I decided to join Diana for her trip to Cambridge today as I had not seen her parents for some time and I had spent a lot of time away. First, I gave Sam as long a walk as I could and took him across the scrub land by the gravel pits.
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I worked him through the trees and then across the waste field where I had found game in the past, but he did not run particularly well today. At least he is watching me a lot better, and his obedience was quite good.
A rush to get back for Diana and then to Cambridge in her car and to get there in good time to meet her parents in Eadon Lilley. The roads were quite clear of both traffic and road works which made a pleasant change and then the city was quiet as well.
It had been very cold overnight, and we even had a frost and this may have kept people at their homes or even in their beds this morning. A nice chat with Charles and Norma over coffee and pleased to hear that they are getting on fine. Then Di and I to look at beds and bedding.
We have it in mind to get Della a new bed in the form of a pair of bunk beds and to get new pillows all round and a set of anti-house-dust-mite covers for Debbie who suffers so with allergies. The journey back and then time in my office working until out with Sam again for a long run on Molesworth Manor Farm.
I was more pleased with his hunting performance and use of a light wind this time. He did not find any game but did not miss any either but did find three hares and was fairly steady to them. I used the time to drop by on Wiggly after work and reassured her; helping her with her car problem with advice and money.
I had faxed details of available cars and dealers to her at work and now discussed how she could find a replacement. I warned her that I would ignore her at this evening's meeting and not to worry again. Back for a late tea (Diana had been at Keep Fit and was now at Yoga) and a splendid pizza made by Della at school which I thoroughly enjoyed.
This evening, I helped Della do her homework as I got ready to go off to The Priory Centre for a very trying meeting of the St Neots Branch Liberal Democrats. There had been confusion about the meeting taking place on a night due for a Town Council Group Meeting and then there was a full measure of controversy, disputes and mad extreme views to get sorted out.
Poor Wiggly had not really got on top of the meeting calendar and arrangements. I participated heavily and just about kept them on the rails with help from Derek Giles and Michael Pope. Chairman Rob Williams and Percy Meyer were ponderous and pedantic and got the others frustrated but we got there in the end.
A momentous decision to expel Ross McKay from the branch was made and must now be carried through. Pity the impression we were making on two new members along for the evening; but that is local politics. Straight home afterwards and, after a little time with Della settling her down to bed, restlessly to bed myself, mind full of the silliness and disorganisation that was evident earlier.
Labour leader, Tony Blair, has taken the bull by the horns and pledged himself and the party to a constitutional review with the aim of eliminating Clause 4 - the item that pledges them to taking things into public ownership - and the left wing are not happy with it.
In an historic judgement, a group of Lloyds Insurance Names have won £500m damages for negligence against the underwriters. The names are near bankruptcy over a series of claims. The trouble is that the underwriter’s professional liability insurance is itself underwritten by Lloyds and so other names and even the same ones would have to pay, making it a very hollow judgement.
Norwich lost the second leg of their cup match 1-0 at second division team Swansea but won 3-1 on aggregate.