As daylight hours waned it was a dismal month of cooler and rainier weather with brief respites. Warm and sunny days were followed by foggy nights with a slight frost.
My throat infection at the beginning of the month turned into a full cold and then a chest infection until I ended up quite ill. This whilst keeping St Neots LibDems on the rails by attending a controversial meeting as we prepared to expel Ross McKay from branch and council groups.
Time with my friends Julie and Jim Bird, and also with Nigel separated from Lynn and experiencing an argument that turned violent. Wiggly was getting more demanding as our relationship deepened and we were spending time together in Norfolk and Eynesbury sharing meals and attending events.
Her health issues were improving and she was settling in to her flat, owning a more reliable car, and managing to fulfil her political role whilst following her hobby of drama. Diana also became depressed at times with the girls behaving badly but went regularly to Keep Fit and Yoga.
We had many meal and cinema outings, and I agreed to send her to Henlow Grange next month as part of my continued forfeit for detected infidelity.
There followed a weekend with Diana at The Heathrow Marriott without Sam which unfortunately coincided with a Bakerloo Line tunnel collapse and consequent airport traffic chaos and drove to the West End to watch "The Mousetrap" at the theatre.
Debbie turned in school assessments was managing the large range of subjects which were satisfactory, Della made a splendid pizza at school and I helped her settle her down to bed as she reverted to eyelash plucking again and Daniel gets a pay increase from Nigel up from £10,000 to £16,000 and is again happy.
Much time this month training Sam at our new Molesworth farm venue and making progress in fits and starts at Novice Pointing events. Good at hunting and quartering, retrieving and water work but sometimes with a hard mouth on live game.
The news this month unfolded with a ferry disaster was found to be due to faulty bow doors, The Labour conference saw Tony Blair trying to deal with the demanding unions and Margaret Thatcher embarrasses the start of the Tory conference over stories of her son Mark making money on her position.
The start of Sein Fein TV interviews heralds the organisation of formal talks before Christmas as Ulster Loyalists join the Irish cease-fire. Lloyds names win a record £500m damages suit against the underwriters. The first artificial heart is fitted at Papworth and The Audit Commission report a three-fold increase in computer crime.
Elsewhere, Sadam Hussein's partial withdrawal from the Kuwaiti border region has to satisfy the US and UK after France supports the status quo and would not allow more offensive action. Islamic Jihad set off bus bomb in Tel Aviv, killing dozens in attempt to derail the Arab/Israeli peace plan and Israelis unwisely retaliate by shelling Gaza.
The biography of The Prince of Wales makes three weekend appearances in The Sunday Times before and after Her Majesty the Queen makes her historic visit to Russia but her son's story dominates the home news coverage thereafter.
A Heathrow office block collapses with the tunnelling problems getting out of hand. There is also a collapse of seating at Wembley that ends a Pink Floyd concert before it began.
England could only draw with Romania at Wembley and Daimon Hill lost to Michael Schumacher and has to win last two Grand Prix races for championship success. Terry Venables, the England Coach, is also pilloried for his business affairs.
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The daylight and sun in shorter and shorter supply in a dismal October of cooler and rainy weather with brief respites. After a mild frost, a new pattern settled in of warm and sunny days after cold, still and misty nights with fog becoming the norm and getting thicker as the month went on. Rain returned for the end of the month, but temperatures stayed mild.
It was a busy time for me with plenty to do. I did manage to complete some tasks such as mowing and strimming the lawns at Harnser, fully washing the Land Rover for the first time in ages, joining Norwich City Football Club as a member and keeping St Neots LibDems on the rails.
I attended a controversial meeting as we prepare to expel Ross McKay from branch and council groups. I plucked and then cooked my own shot duck to eat. After some delay, I investigated better insurance for our properties which should be completed soon.
My throat infection at the beginning of the month turned into a full cold and then a chest infection until I ended up quite ill. A little time with my friends, having tea with Julie and Jim Bird, giving Laura a drawing set as a gift and then going shooting afterwards.
Rather depressing seeing Nigel for snooker and to hear of his latest life story. He is still searching for female company and rushing frenetically here and there. There was a sad upset with Lynn completing her move to Grafham and I witness my god-children fighting over things from the split home.
There are still all sorts of emotional upsets a few days later when I go over for a coffee to find that Lynn had been round in an argument that turned violent the night before.
Wiggly was getting more demanding as our relationship deepened. My waking thoughts were again with my women during this month of their birthdays.
Wiggly began the month on the first of three weekends with me in Norwich bravely bearing a bad cough & cold together with her menstrual period and catalogue of work and car problems. She attended Addenbrookes Clinic for her treatment and caught the train to meet me and I made it worthwhile with an overnight stay at The Hotel Nelson and then a Theatre Royal production of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie".
She relaxed with a hair trim in the morning and looked around the shops in Wroxham before I bought her a new hat and then lunch at Oliver's and the match at Carrow Road together. Both tired and, with her having a period as well, I put in a poor sexual farewell performance, though I made sure she was satisfied
The temporary Escort car that I had provided with was appalling to start when I dropped her back in Cambridge and so I called on her after dog training and helped her get it into Cambridge Street Motors for examination where it was pronounced the car dead much to her distress.
By now her washing machine had broken down as well and she felt that I was abandoning her and losing interest! Dropped round then to help her with information to choose another one and also to see her whenever I could as she still needed strong support.
She perked up after giving the work leaving speech for colleague Daniel and also when the clinic found her warts declining. Another Norfolk weekend to enjoy the production of "HMS Pinafore" at Theatre Royal and good sex afterwards and the next morning.
We bought our own bedding from Roy’s for our Norfolk sorties and took a look around Latham’s when I upset her over seafood and then she could not get a meat pie at the football either! She was even more of a problem to me as a result, making me leave early and still get stuck in traffic unnecessarily.
I made my first unaccompanied visit to her house, sleeping on my own until she joined me at 4.00am and we made it up with best mutual masturbation sex ever before I slipped away in the morning and came back later council her before she received her new car.
A date instead of rabbit shooting but I fail for the first time, though still satisfy her. She becomes more relaxed for the time being but then gets sad over her broken oven and problems in re-taxing the car.
I was good giving flowers for Wiggly and Diana on the eve of their birthdays and some thought as to whether the relationship would last but then dinner of smoked salmon out at Whittlesford on her birthday cemented things.
Great sex for me but I could not satisfy her this time. Joined her for her insurance assessor's meeting and had to cheer her up from getting depressed over things. Successfully passionate visit to see her after getting merry playing snooker at Nigel's.
Depressed again after arguing with her brother during his weekend visit to see her. Another night at Wiggly's place and a take-away Chinese together on eve of half-term break in Norfolk.
Took her to Addenbrookes where there was now no further treatment needed. Night with Wiggly at Barton Mills Travelodge and meal at nearby Mildenhall thoroughly enjoyed.
Another visit to help her contact volunteers to distribute FOCUS in Eynesbury and found out that she had completed the task herself afterwards after getting the help and encouragement. In all, an intimate month's roller-coaster enjoying her passion and mood changes.
Diana also became depressed at times with the girls behaving badly but went regularly to Keep Fit and Yoga. I made a point of walking the girls to bus stop again on a regular basis to try and keep in touch with their problems and frustrations.
Diana and I see "Speed", "Forest Gump", "Button Wars" and "The Client" at Bedford cinema all as Monday afternoon dates and I agreed to send her to Henlow Grange next month as part of my continued forfeit for detected infidelity. I joined her for a Cambridge visit, the first for some time, to look at bedding options.
She was not very happy but still delivered FOCUS leaflets so I give her two meals at Brackenbury's. A nice Sunday lunch together after my weekend in Norfolk. Di then got all worried about genital growths but I reassured her by taking her to the VD clinic where she got the "all-clear".
A Pizza Hut lunch for Di as well as the Monday film on her birthday with breakfast cards and presents and a birthday tea of cake and candles. The family treats included a Little Chef lunch and a weekend at The Heathrow Marriott without Sam which was enjoyable but coincided with a Bakerloo Line tunnel collapse and consequent airport traffic chaos.
We had a swim, drove to the West End to watch "The Mousetrap" at the theatre but the break was nearly spoiled by Diana's tantrum over the girls arguing but I smoothed things over so that we had a nice breakfast and drive over to Thorpe Park which we enjoyed despite the rain showers.
Diana joined me in Norfolk and got her tipsy at Mr Chann's Restaurant. A trip over to Cromer to see the latest Disney epic, "The Lion King", to Norwich and Jarrold’s for coffee and Oliver's for lunch with the girls going to Supaskate
A trip to Potter Heigham and Winterton before lunch at The Horning Tea Shoppe. Sam had to find the girls who had run ahead and hidden in the seaside dunes. A red letter day as I petted Diana to her first climax since being found out. Beefeater lunch for a change on the Saturday of return home.
Debbie turned in assessments which were satisfactory only but at least she was managing the large range of subjects. She sees "Speed" with Amy at an early evening performance and has an early end to our hotel weekend as Daniel collects her for a party back home
Della made a splendid pizza at school and I helped her settle her down to bed as she reverts to eyelash plucking again. We get her shoes replaced free of charge as they proved unsatisfactory, and I also helped her drill and string her conkers at a time when she had fallen out with friends at school and ended up taking her for combined conker and dog walk.
Daniel gets a pay increase from Nigel up from £10,000 to £16,000 and is again happy with work and agrees to collect girls after school. He gets new rented TV for his room as the first in a number of home entertainment improvements. He retains his friends and still goes out with Gary and Jason to Cambridge.
Sam was given short shrift for much of the time lately but still behaved well when in Norfolk. He was still grumbling when with the other dogs at Eastwick but performed well in Tim's training group and in a special quartering session with Brian Botterman.
I gave him plenty of roadwork and general exercise in preparation for his first Field Trial but he rewarded me with a poor hunting performance at Paxton Pits even if he was watching me closely with good obedience but he improved when running at Molesworth.
A good cross-river retrieve and much better hedgerow hunting on two occasions and quartering on the very eve of the Field Trial. once at the event, still he did not do too bad but could not find a bird and get a retrieve and whined and grumbled too much. His second Trial was better in hunting and finding game but disappointing as he then badly mouthed a hen pheasant and is eliminated.
Once home, water retrieves of duck from the river were completed all right. I gave him and he did the longest "memory" and most-difficult "blind" retrieves ever and then quartered and hunted well at Molesworth with his delivery having been improved with the use of titbits. I let him meet other dogs as often as possible and train at obedience classes with other dogs and also worked on directional control as well.
No geese to shoot in my walked-up shooting locally and then Sam made a mess of pigeon retrieves by mouthing the birds again. Better quartering in preparation for second trial despite a vet's need to take a grass seed out of his eye and this triggered the need for carrying practice afterwards that still left him a long way to go.
Daniel managed him fine during our weekend at Slough. He ran reasonably at club annual working test and gets second place in the novice but delivered retrieves badly, did not have to retrieve real game and missed the first place to Tim's dog. His tracking ability was proved again when training with Martin Sullivan afterwards
There was more training at Burnham Market with Martin, quartering and retrieving before we were finally turned off the fields by a gamekeeper! He then disgraced himself with poor treatment of cold game and then had excellent retrieves upon cock pheasant runners with Jim before a disastrous experience again with Martin in Burnham Market that leads me to withdraw Sam on eve of a third Field Trial as not being ready for it.
The month’s news unfolded with arson attacks on the same family home three times but then the parents were themselves charged with the arson. A ferry disaster was found to be due to faulty bow doors.
The Labour conference opened with a Union Block Vote tussle but then Tony Blair commits the party to eliminating the nationalisation "clause 4" from constitution.
Margaret Thatcher embarrasses the start of the Tory conference over stories of her son Mark making money on her position when premier and party hopes to avoid discussing Europe at conference were dashed when Lamont and Tebbit address fringe meetings and reopen the argument.
Then Michael Portillo and Michael Hezeltine clash with conflicting speeches. Labour resign from The House Privileges Committee over their failure to hear the "sleaze" enquiry in public and now two Tory ministers are joined in the allegations.
One resigns first and then the pressure comes on the other as Jonathan Aitken is also joined in. The spirit of compromise is in the air at the end of the month with the committee hearings due to start again soon.
The start of Sein Fein TV interviews herald the organisation of formal talks before Christmas as Ulster Loyalists join the Irish cease-fire. Lloyds names win a record £500m damages suit against the underwriters.
The first artificial heart is fitted at Papworth and The Audit Commission report a three-fold increase in computer crime.
Sadam Hussein's partial withdrawal from the Kuwaiti border region has to satisfy the US and UK after France supports the status quo and would not allow more offensive action but the Serbs intercept a medical convoy in Bosnia.
Islamic Jihad set off bus bomb in Tel Aviv, killing dozens in attempt to derail the Arab/Israeli peace plan and Israelis unwisely retaliate by shelling Gaza.
The biography of The Prince of Wales makes three weekend appearances in The Sunday Times before and after Her Majesty the Queen makes her historic visit to Russia but her son's story dominates the home news coverage thereafter.
Jonathan Dimbleby finds it necessary to hold interviews to correct "unfair tabloid impressions". A Heathrow office block collapses with the tunnelling problems getting out of hand.
There is also a collapse of seating at Wembley that ends a Pink Floyd concert before it began. A girl wins £100,000 in a crisp packet competition. Locally, half of the land in Paxton Pits nature reserve comes up for sale.
On the sporting scene, Norwich beat Blackburn Rovers despite Chris Sutten playing for them and got past Swansea despite losing second leg of cup match.
England can only draw with Romania at Wembley and Daimon Hill loses to Michael Schumacher and has to win last two Grand Prix races for championship success. Terry Venables, the England Coach, is also pilloried for his business affairs.