News of British Gas introducing charges and the Child Support Agency being reorganised and a baby being left with a hypodermic syringe within! J
im tells me of the torrid time he has had with Ben. Organising my Scottish trip amidst doubts from Di abut me going alone.
Our morning routine was spoilt by an elementary problem when Diana did all of her chores inexplicably late and we had an argument when she denied doing so even when the result was incontrovertible.
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It transpired later that she had lent her watch to Debbie who had put it right instead of leaving it five minutes fast! The weather has taken a wintrier turn with the mild temperatures giving way to possible sleet as well as showers.
During the shoot on Saturday, my eyes were stung by the driving sleet and it seems that we have more to come in Scotland where it is freezing with snow settling.
Controversial news of British Gas planning the introduction of charges and reducing the help it gives to old and infirm people by cutting back on home visits and the use of brail where special handles are provided for cookers and fires. There is to be a reorganisation of the Child Support Agency following the Commons Select Committee investigation.
The Israeli Government are set to reacting to a suicide bomb attack on Tel Aviv. Japan has suffered two aftershocks near Koby and the Nickei Index on the Japanese Stock Exchange has fallen 1000 points in a collapse which leaves it at the lowest level for years.
A baby in the same Cornwall hospital where the nurse performed an appendix removal had been left with a hypodermic syringe inside after an operation until the mother eventually found the needle sticking out of its back!
The UK government has tightened up the rules for transporting live animals unilaterally so that journeys of fifteen hours or more are the limit. Out with Sam and then to the bus stop with the girls who only just caught the bus after being five minutes late.
Then I put Sam through his paces again; first holding, sitting and returning with the cock pheasant, then retrieving it from across our flooded garden before being sent for a pigeon to the centre of the swollen river and called back with it straight away.
Finally, I tried him with the hen pheasant in the back garden on which he was just about all right. I spoke to Bob Steele later who is also running with "Worcester" in Wednesday's Novice Field Trial and his dog suffers from the same fault when sent for runners.
When I spoke to poor Jim, he told me of a torrid time he had with Ben today when he ran off again and was gone for four hours with Jim out looking for him for half of that time. However, it is Ben's whining that is really getting Jim down and he seemed disappointed that Ben found his way home in the end.
Arrangements also today to get Sam inoculated before I take him up to Scotland and then the provisional hotel arrangements made for Forss with the details to be confirmed with Ian McGregor tomorrow.
Then appointments with the foresters for whilst I am due to be there. It was lunchtime before I had finished all that and then I spent the afternoon and early evening doing some work to The Hayling View.
At last, I managed to repair the light switches in the Playroom and Ironing room before fitting new smoke detectors and rearranging the wiring for them in the loft.
This done, I was able to re-commission the alarm system so that the house security is back in service again after having been off for a long time.
Up latish with my journal and managed to cross off several action items. Diana came late to me tonight with misgivings over me going to Scotland and asking if I was sure that nobody was going with me! I said that I could not tell a lie and that there was someone, my dog Sam!