The day working on my LibDems St Ives Report and taking Di to the Bedford cinema later.
The Tory Government, riven by public cabinet divisions upon Europe, have been let off the hook.
Talks between the PLO and Israel have led to hope that the present stand-off can be solved and a return to the peace process made.
The Tory Government, riven by public cabinet divisions upon Europe, have been let off the hook by the Liberal Democrats putting down a motion calling for a referendum on economic union and not being supported by Labour.
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They "did not want to be bounced into a premature policy commitment on a Monday" which I thought was a poor excuse. The return of the kidnapped and lost baby "Lydia" has led to questioning of several people.
Talks between the PLO and Israel have led to hope that the present stand-off can be solved and a return to the peace process made. The dispute is about colonisation of the West Bank on the one hand and Palestinian terrorism against it on the other.
The Arab labour force on the West Bank, who depend upon employment in Israel, are still barred by the recently introduced border controls. A showpiece debate was held on the future of Scottish democracy in The Old Grammar School in Edinburgh with Alex Salmon, the SNP leader running rings around the major parties.
For my part, I had a slower arrival at the breakfast table, but I still got off to walk Sam and then the girls to the bus stop afterwards. He was awake in the middle of the night, wanting to run out for toilet and did not settle down until I had given him a run, but the problem might have been that I had left the side flap of his kennel run open.
I settled down to my St Ives LibDem report in my office for much of the day, working my way through the branch minute book and typing up a draft report in note form into my organiser.
I broke off before lunch to take Diana out to Bedford to the cinema where we intended to have lunch at the Pizza Hut before but it was closed and then Fatty Arbuckle’s was inattentive.
Debbie ran Sam for me this evening so that I could get on with my report and then I worked late finishing my first draft before making a few calls to Percy, Ron Heinrich and Stuart Littlewood.
It was late and I had not telephoned Wiggly but, when I did so, Diana came down from bed and listened outside the door so that she at least heard who I was talking to! I had to take her into the lounge and have a long chat to her and this was the last thing I wanted to do.
She did not ask me too many awkward questions but enough to realise what was going on and she was quite upset about it. I eventually got her up to bed after midnight and so had to stop my work for the day.