David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
After a cool start to a warm day, I followed up on my local party politics efforts and then coached Debbie's 1500m efforts at Kimbolton.
Then tackling the Rolls and taking it for a successful run before watching World Cup football before and after taking Diana to Bedford to see the 6.00pm performance of "Angie".
It was cooler early and late but still warm during the day as we went about our business. My first priority was telephoning news of my conversations with Derek Giles to Sally and Percy and to get Louise's copy faxed to John Roscoe for advice and help.
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Suffering a delay to my Rolls Royce commissioning efforts and I had to get involved in more Local Politics; reconciling views of my Liberal Democrat colleagues.
Two more runs with Sam in the sunshine and some particularly difficult water retrieves for him to do across the river with which I was very pleased.
I had stayed up late last night chatting to Sandy on the telephone and then checked with Percy this morning to see if there had been any further developments with Sheila Shorten overnight. She was still upset with Derek over the precipitative way in which he had pressed for the second St Neots market day for Tuesdays.
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On a dry and sunny but cooler day, deciding to advertise my Rolls Royce for sale, training for Sam further stalking and pointing a rabbit and effecting our own repair to the dishwasher.
This evening, taking Di to the cinema in Bedford to see the film "Naked Gun 331/2 - The final Insult" which was an incredibly silly film, but she liked it
Daniel had brought Jason round last night and I agreed that he could borrow my late Dad's car. With the drive free for the first time in ages, I opened up the garage and put batteries in both the Rolls Royce and Reliant on charge.
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Tackling paperwork, further training for Sam to gunshot, RHDRA administration and more political plans in preparation for a Town Council by-election
Warm and sunny again today and the first job was to take Sam for a run on the eve of the fishing season. More work with the starting pistol dropping Sam to shot and then using the dummy-launcher to first make some even louder bangs for the same purpose and then actually launching some dummies for him to retrieve.
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Meeting up with Di’s parents and making a car offer, undertaking Ropes Hill Dyke road correspondence, and making a Cambridge Street visit with Nigel.
A one-day rail strike called for the next day after failed pay negotiations and Tottenham Hotspur are on the receiving end of some draconian punishments for making illegal payments to players and staff
The warm sunny weather continued and Sam continued to moult his winter/puppy coat. I took him swimming this morning before the advent of the fishing season would make his use of the pits too disruptive. He did a good split water retrieve under direction by signal and whistle so that I could call him off one retrieve and get him to do another first.
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On another warm and sunny day, confirmation of the Tories appalling Euro-election results after which there were more calls from his party for John Major’s resignation.
A good walk with Sam who I find is always better-behaved with other dogs after trips to his events. He also did a nice water retrieve with a difficult entry and quartered well and was in the act of pointing a pair of partridges when I called him off inadvertently.
More work with the Town Council LibDem group and post-election admin. Nigel Smith dropped by, anxious to salt away a picnic hamper and contents so that Lynn would not know he had been out philandering instead of working!
Like yesterday, we had more warm and sunny weather and just about no wind. With quite fresh air and low humidity, it was still comfortable and very nice.
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