David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
Some time with Pete and Bill, getting them organised to work together on cleaning off the conservatory roof and decorating the lantern woodwork as my Rolls Royce needed attention to pass its MOT.
Election jitters as John Roscoe let our Eynesbury candidate down over her first election leaflet
It was duller and cloudier than of late but still very mild; stuffy even. Sam and then time with Pete and Bill, getting them organised to work together on cleaning off the conservatory roof and decorating the lantern woodwork.
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Clearing out the garage for my Rolls Royce to be stored after my morning dog walk with Sam before over to Hilton to join the colleagues celebrating the recent by-election success.
With Derek's help, we circulated with a clipboard and obtained a long list of helpers for Wiggly's forthcoming campaign.
The latest problem is Ross McKay who had seen the Town Crier letter from Michael Pope and Sandy Giles criticising him and wanted them to retract it publicly or get his response.
A lay in and rest for the first time in a while and then up to shower before breakfast. Out with Sam on a walk across the common in weather that was quite warm but overcast and windy. Just a few retrieves, some obedience work and a few chance encounters with other dogs.
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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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