A difficult but eventually productive day tussling with how to progress my Redgrave problem and then an unplanned evening outing and good reconciliation with Wiggly.
This as Russia takes Grozny, Norwich Union volunteers clear up beaches and Debbie gets on well with her mock GCSE’s
Making notes of the news in be again when I found out today that Tony Blair was launching an internal publicity drive to win support for his constitutional changes to Labour "clause 4".
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The Welsh Secretary, John Redwood, expressed disapproval on the level of government spending and risked trouble with his colleagues.
Several bodies are combining to try to voluntarily control top executive pay rises with the intention of heading off external controls.
A final Russian assault to take Grozny, the Chechnyan capital seems imminent as the defenders fight on against impossible odds. 6,000 volunteers, sponsored by The Norwich Union, has found that Britain's beaches are as messy as ever with an average of 20 pieces of sewage-related litter per kilometre.
Finally up to find that poor Della was still suffering from her bad cold and was not going to be able to go to school. I still took Sam for an early run and then walked with him and Debbie to the school bus stop.
She is still getting on quite well with her Mock GCSE exams and brought home the results of her career vocational test this evening which said that her main skills were in the area of space visualisation and mathematical computation and weakness in communication and verbal reasoning.
Once I was back home, I sat down and embarked upon writing a long and difficult letter to Freda and Alf, setting out what they must do in order to make their house saleable.
This was a very wearing and stressful experience because I knew that they would take offence and still not act so that I would eventually be put in the position of re-possessing the house. T
hen I had my own problem to deal with and so telephoned Wiggly to ask her out in the evening to see a film in Bedford and to talk things over. She accepted after a slight hesitation and I had that relationship matter to plan for as well.
It was after lunch before I could settle to anything and then, whilst Diana napped in the lounge as Della watched TV, I slipped out and completely emptied and hoovered the car, washed out and dried the mats and then drove off to St Neots to get the car washed so that it would be free of its dog smells and mud from shooting.
A walk for Sam and then out after tea rabbit shooting with Derek the alibi but of course I had taken a change of clothes to see Wiggly. I was a little late changing on the journey but then took her to Bedford, attempting to reconcile our feelings on the way.
I was communicative at first, explaining the stress and distraction of my problems with Freda and upset over her writing off my considerable efforts to satisfy her sexually.
When asked for her comments, she maintained a long silence but eventually warmed up and started talking about her sore toe and the relationship problems she is having with others at work. Thus talking, we bought some popcorn and drinks and enjoyed the film together.
This despite the fact that it was full of dramatic pauses, slow moving and not entirely entertaining. She was her normal self on the way home, invited me in for coffee and, us having managed to return to being an affectionate couple, I was content to leave things at a small cuddle, thinking that another hasty and unsatisfactory sexual encounter would spoil things again.
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She settled in relaxed fashion back onto the bed smiling; chiding me playfully at teasing her and keeping her waiting three days which she said was too long.
We were past our crisis and could part on lover's terms; me to change and get home and her to sleep with straight nerve ends and a satisfied and relaxed body for sex means so much to her.
Once home, Diana had gone to bed, and I stayed up watching the end of a film before undressing on the landing and turning in before midnight.