David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
With the weather much improved, after updating my computer journal for these last ten days, I returned to election organising making a number of long telephone calls to our four candidates resolving campaign problems and organising the next stage in the campaign, even chancing upon both of the Tory candidates, Terry Hayward and the young Normington. Also, time for two good sessions with Sam today. The news is still of Bosnia as the world community tries to decide what to do in response to the latest Serb actions.
The weather today was bright and the best for some time and this helped my outside work with Sam and the work of those campaigning in the local elections. But first, after seeing the family off out for the day, I spent the morning and was glad to finish this by lunch time.
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Getting back to normal and catching up with friends and transactions and then collecting Sam from Trevor Rigby in Lincoln who had been doing well.
I had expected a period of readjustment but we went straight back into our routine and he obeyed me well and was quite steady for me at least.
It was hard getting back to normal today, but I started by showering and washing my hair and then having breakfast as the others struggled to get up and join Diana and I. Some time returning telephone calls and then going through the mail to gather together cheques to pay in and urgent bills to pay.
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Finishing our 500-piece Parc Asterix jigsaw puzzle before catch the bus to EuroDisney for taking pictures of another parade, the park and the family before off to Charles de Gaulles airport. The countryside was landscaped and owned by Disney to create a "cordon sanitaire" of no wildlife around the park.
The flight home and the Hotel Marriott coach was waiting at Terminal 4 to take us back to that hotel car park for our for journey home.
News from the Bosnian town of Goradsne where the Serbs were defying the United Nations measures and advancing on the enclave anyway. Gary Sobers achieves the highest personal score, scoring 375 against England.
As soon as I awoke, I got started on the puzzle again but time and the family were against me as we had to pack and leave the hotel by 11.00am or be charged for another day. I tackled this problem, and the excessive waits for luggage storage, by transferring the jigsaw out onto the one table in the hall where the girls continued it as Diana and I did the packing.
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On by far the mildest day of the week so far which was still chilly and uncomfortable, we the girls travel to Disneyland by themselves today.
We tried to catch the two-hour sightseeing tour of the city but were just too late at the Paris Vision and Citirama bus station but we ended up at "Pont Neuf" where there were one-hour boat trips around the Isle de Paris that gave us good views without too much expense.
To Torcy to do our shopping alone. for the cookies, crisps and cake that I had bought at very good prices as an alternative to the costly park fare
A long lay in again and casual breakfast amongst the confusion of the "Chuck Wagon" eating melee. We decided to let the girls travel to Disneyland by themselves today and we gave them a room card/key to meet them back in the hotel later. Diana and I got our 90FF Formule 1 tickets for the day and went off to Paris.
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Leaving the girls off at the EuroDisney Park on another day of periodic rain and a cold northerly wind, I took Diana to Torcy and a superstore next to the station for shopping and then back to treat Diana to a large 95FF plate of barbecued ribs, chicken, sausage, sweet corn and beans at the "Chuck Wagon".
I then took a drink with her in the "Red Garter Saloon" to sit and hear a couple play and sing some Country & Western music.
News of more Serbian army advances in Bosnia with two British soldiers injured so that the region is in even deeper crisis again. A shotgun siege in England following a bank raid and the repercussions reverberate on the so-called "friendly-fire" incident in Iraq
A good lay in this morning - by far the longest - as we reckoned that at least it was warmer in bed than back in the exposed EuroDisney park. We eventually got Debbie into the bathroom whilst I carried on cuddling up to Diana and resting until the last moment. Breakfast at the Cheyenne Hotel food-rush cafeteria as usual and then, at Diana's behest, we dropped off the girls at EuroDisney again for a few hours and took the train two stops along the line to Torcy to do some shopping.
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Overcoming the DisneyLand obstacles we then went by train to visit Parc Asterix where there were theme areas, water rides, white-knuckle attractions and lots of other things for the children that combined the "Asterix the Gaul" theme.
News of US warplanes accidentally killing over 20 allied soldiers in a so-called "friendly-fire" incident over Iraq.
I was awake very early this morning and, after rolling over to see Diana for a few minutes whilst the girls were still asleep, I lay there and thought that we had already spent enough time in EuroDisney to see the place and it would have been better to go somewhere else for the day.
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