I chronicled a whole catalogue of news stories today with my Psion but I had spent my day working at home on my finances and shooting in the field and re-erecting the scarecrow opposite to protect John Osborne’s field.
Bad news as our Cambridge Street planning application had been recommended for refusal
Up early again to listen to the radio news and note current events on my organiser. This morning more than half of Labour MEP"s publish a newspaper advert in support of Tony Blair’s review of clause 4.
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All Bosnian parties agree extension and enforcement of ceasefire.
A nurse at a Truro hospital, Valerie Tomblinson, has performed an operation to remove an appendix in the absence of the surgeon and has been suspended, even though the operation was successful.
Research at a University in Alabama discovers more about the body's fight against Aids which could help further research. A DC9 passenger airliner in Columbia, carrying more than 50 people has crashed after an explosion and only a nine-year-old girl, thrown clear onto a bank of weeds, has survived.
I was a bit groggy this morning, having stayed up until midnight watching a murder thriller last night, but still got through my routine and out with Sam. The girls having gone to the bus stop early, I opted not to join them but came back to load my pigeon shooting equipment onto the Jolley and then motored across the river with Sam.
We set up there and found plenty of pigeons but decoying them down near me was a very different proposition. I did shoot one high overhead in the end but, whilst they have plenty of food supplies in neighbouring fields of grass and wheat, they just clear off at the first shot or indication.
At least I saved my conscience and kept them clear of John Osborne's field and put the scarecrow back up, so I felt satisfied. Once back home and warmed up with a mug of coffee, I had a long chat with Sally.
The residents' association meeting had gone well on Tuesday night, and this must have been reassuring for Wiggly, but our Cambridge Street planning application had been recommended for refusal by the planning officer and turned down by the Town Council last night.
I called Nigel and told him and then Phil Osborne, the Architect, will find out why it was thought to be an overdevelopment to see if we can re-submit something that will find favour next time.
Lunch courtesy of Diana who had come back from her shopping expedition and then the afternoon updating my financial summaries, finding out that our investments had all been falling in value which could cause us problems in the longer term.
Out with Sam in the twilight and then tea with the whole family; Daniel having come home from another tiring day at work. Calls to Percy and Derek in preparation for tonight's meeting of the constituency and then to my journal after tea before getting changed to go out to it.
The Tory Government managers have hatched plans to try and bring their rebel MP's back in the fold by separating and courting them but I think that they will be keen to stick together. Home Secretary Douglas Hurd has added his support to the matter of outlawing the use of Veal Crates in the EEC.
Russian forces will now make their final assault on the Presidential Palace of Chechnya with its underground network of bunkers being a tough proposition.
There are second thoughts by police and social workers about the new use of videos in interviewing child abuse victims. A new series of earthquakes are expected in Southern California.