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There were a few very cold, drizzly, breezy and rather miserable mornings this month with heavy snow falling. I still got out with Sam who had been whining at the arrival of such atrocious conditions.
The snow and ice on the ground were tricky and the wind chill, but Louise and I were well-wrapped up and wore large hats to keep warm. The Horning water levels were very high at night and remained even higher as water covered the road and the gardens and drives of many of our neighbouring properties.
I went out with a hammer and pocket full of nails and then hammered them in at high water level on every fence post, tree and other points to give a reference for the forthcoming road works.
I was often giving a good ‘seeing to’ for Louise by filling her and she contacted a heavy cough and cold, which got worse as time wore on. I then started to suffer with mine. I was still attracted to Louise in her Little Miss Naughty bra and had to be discouraged!
I snuggled up to her lovely, long, warm nude body from behind and went soundly to sleep. Once recovered from her cough, she accepted an invitation and selected a film at the Castle Mall multi-screen.
I had ‘solved’ her headache next by taking off my glasses, my dressing gown and then pulling the cover off her to give her a good seeing to.
Louise was often in a grumpy mood, particularly when our latest cleaner had called to say she did not want to work anymore and this meant that all of the washing, cleaning and ironing was down to her.
To try and break her mood, I then made love to her, satisfying myself but not inspiring any great emotion in her. I looked after myself later and, as we slept on, I thought that this was a sad way to spend time with a naked girl in my bed, but so it is and this must make us quite incompatible.
Another time, I was feeling randy and made love to Louise before we settled down and she was amenable if not enthusiastic. She seemed very compliant and was available whenever I want her.
She has said that this was the advice from Galena, who suggested she should be glad of the attention and should satisfy me whenever I needed it. If she only trusted me more and put herself in my hands, she would have lots more fun with these serious sexual encounters.
She was impressed the news that I had booked a flat in Cannes for the film festival and things seemed to be all set for my visit to Redgrave where matters were coming to a head.
Shirley had been having much more success with her daily and weekly cash reconciliation and David seemed ready for me to do the end of month accounts. I also found Shirley upstairs hoovering the shop flat with the new carpets largely fitted into position, making the shop flat look a lot better.
I completed an inventory of the condition and contents of the flat and then got Shirley to agree it and sign the space so that was another job done. She gave me my rent cheque for the month of March, which was £1,040 and included the shop flat, which was good also.
Upon looking at her computer, she had correctly completed the daily sheets and then the following weekly sheet, with the till losses being much reduced on recently. It was good to see her so up to date.
I learnt that the only loan offer that the Raines had got was £19,000 repayable over five years at a rate of 36% which was awful. I read the Raine’s Post Office Plan which was revealing.
The Raines had solved the problem of till losses but had incorrectly reset the weekly sheet and this led to problems. I had to adjust the daily sheets to exclude customer account payments and then consolidated the weekly sheet again, overcoming a second category of error.
They had not been reliably booking out the news accounts papers every day and had got in a right muddle, which caused me a headache. Later, I found both David and Shirley in good spirits and they had settled in after the trauma of moving and managing difficult aspects of the business and were over the most difficult time.
When other priorities allowed, I spent a morning working on my investment plans for the children’s estates and trusts, working out a good way of avoiding capital gains tax in the trusts and giving Daniel and Debbie some tax-free ISA savings on their own account.
I had completed my post office and building society transactions. Worst of all was the £20,000 tax demand from The Inland Revenue, which took me totally by surprise. I was evidently late and could have been surcharged £900 if they wanted to be nasty. Several calls eventually revealed that they had not sent me a statement after receiving my self-assessment tax form and so I had no way of knowing how much to pay.
A Paranoid meeting followed, and we received reports from around the table and then exchanged views. The film festival at Cannes looked interesting and would make a nice holiday as well as progressing prospects for the film. Nigel’s idea of employing a salesman and taking other films under our wing was favourably received.
The next family meeting was very good as the idea I had for Diana, though unique in the stockbroker’s history, was permissible for them and suited Diana down to the ground. The plans for the children’s trusts also went well and shares will not be transferred into their own names under ISA tax shelters which will work out very well.
I then read the financial papers further and advised Di more about pensions and ISA investments. I had much work to do on Paranoid Celluloid liaising with Steve Hicks and his solicitor to draft our legal charges and loan restructuring.
Despite all this activity, I found time for my journal, updating it for outstanding days and then starting to summarise the month of February for the archive.
These days, I often had a simple breakfast of grapefruit, kiwi fruit and then croissants and then a lunch of soup and left-over vegetables from the previous night.
I took Louise, Galena and a new guy to The Waffle House for a light meal which only came to £37 which I thought was good for four of us, including drinks.
Nigel was impressed when visiting that Louise had planned a dinner of venison and took a close interest on her use of plum and lemon sauce to accompany it. Sometimes,
Louise offered to walk Sam and took him with my bicycle for his morning run. Also, I took Sam for his morning cycle ride and controlled him quite closely, given the countryside restrictions that we are suffering now.
On our ride, we saw a dairy farm sealed off with signs and disinfected straw barrier against the foot and mouth disease.
Home to bed, tired after our day and week and glad to be snuggling up together. until Louise got bored and had a headache.
She lay down after which I took off my glasses, my dressing gown and then pulled the cover off her and gave her a good seeing to. Her headache was magickly gone and she was happy and hungry!
Once we got out, our bikes waded through road puddles and lakes, but the sun came out. Louise could keep up with me when we climb small gradients.
In view of our 23-year age difference, I asked her, “when do you think that you will catch up with my fitness and stamina” and she said she thought “never”.
I made a flask of tea, wrapped up and set off,. In our seats in time, due to the kick off being delayed by crowd congestion. I thought that we battled quite well against an obviously talented team and did not get any luck as all the official decisions went against us.
The WBA players continually harried and hassled the City players, often nudging and pushing our players just before the ball arrived and then blocking us off when we first played the ball. The referee let them get away with this all match and did not run enough to catch up with play. He then gave a penalty to them that decided the result, having ignored a blatant foul that got their player in that position.
I heard from Della that she was coming over and wanted Graeme to join her for the football and then, whilst on my way, We arrived around 12 minutes late for the kick off, but little had happened. Norwich went ahead from a good early cross from Llewellyn that Roberts put away but then bad marking left their forward unmarked to head past Andy Marshall for it to be level at half time. In the second half, our goalkeeper was fooled by a long swirling lob from their captain who therefore scored from the half-way line and that knocked the stuffing out of our team and we lost the match.
This day was quite a good one, really. It was not long before it was time to get ready for the football match. City had completed a series of three lost matches and today they had three new signings in the team and we had better hope. We collected my car on the way from outside Sue’s house and then dropped off Debbie’s at Tim’s house and made our way to the ground together.
Tim met us there and we used all four tickets, even though Debbie was still away in Florida with Di Roger and Graeme. We just arrived in time again and then ate pies and enjoyed Bovril drinks as we settled into our seats. This was an important match as Grimsby were just below us in the table and a loss tonight would start relegation worries again.
Llewellyn scored the winning goal with fifteen minutes to go! Home at quite a reasonable time and to bed after a tiring week. listening to the football on the radio as City first went a goal up at Vicarage Road and then let Watford score four goals to overrun our defence.
I watched the lunchtime TV news. as I watched the chancellor’s budget speech. The budget was a triumph of manipulation by Chancellor Gordon Brown, who had been able to repay around £50bn of the national debt, more than had been repaid in total over the previous 40 years.
Amongst the new provisions were better packages for working parents, single and in couples, in what Brown called his “Budget for Families” and also £1bn each on Education and Health.
The most impressive things she saw was the personal invitation by Prime Minister Thatcher requesting the honour of my company for a reception at 10 Downing Street and she was quite overcome by that.
The Foot & Mouth outbreak has passed the 200-mark of confirmed cases, and the disease is in most of the country, and even in France, but not yet in Norfolk.
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