David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
Returning to the custom of visiting Cambridge with Diana to see her parents and looking at bedding.
Then working Sam at Molesworth Manor Farm and pleased with his hunting performance before a frustrating St Neots Branch LibDem meeting where Ross McKay was expelled from the group.
Labour leader Tony Blair is set on ending the party pledge for public ownership and in an historic judgement, a group of Lloyds Insurance Names have won £500m damages for negligence against the underwriters which is in effect themselves!
I decided to join Diana for her trip to Cambridge today as I had not seen her parents for some time and I had spent a lot of time away. First, I gave Sam as long a walk as I could and took him across the scrub land by the gravel pits.
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Paperwork, afternoon cinema with Diana to see an exciting adventure film called "Speed". Watching a poor evening TV football match prior to a distressing call from Wiggly who had been waiting for my call and for whom everything had been going wrong.
The Labour Party Conference opens with a row over union block votes, and much is expected of the Labour Leader, Tony Blair.
I had gone to bed early last night, thinking to catch up on my sleep with a cold coming on, but I tossed and turned and could not get comfortable.
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A full training day at Eastwick with Sam doing quite well in his work but grumbling at other dogs. This, after quiet night with Wiggly and then driving with her to Cambridge back to a car reluctant to start. Back exhausted to a Diana depressed with the girls behaviour
I tried very hard with Wiggly this morning, but either I was tired, distracted by a range of worries, or put off by the period, cap and condom for I just could not make it with her for the first time.
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Walking Sam and Wiggly overcame her car problems and cold and then joined me for some Wroxham shopping before we ate at Olivers and went to Carrow Road to watch Norwich Football beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1. This evening to watch "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" at the Theatre Royal
Wiggly was full of her cold and came to me after another catalogue of work and car problems but put a brave face on things and enjoyed her meal and night.
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September 1994 - A stormy month of weather with East Anglian deluges as torrential rain drowned Ropes Hill Dyke road but a mild one nevertheless. The biggest storm of the month was my Marital Crisis emanating from Diana as she read my journal jottings and found out about my affair with Wiggly.
This had followed another heavenly month of illicit lovemaking as I showered Wiggly with gifts, but things calmed down for a while as Diana realised that she and the girls would be pretty lost without me. I was helping Wiggly move into her new house and I was being cautious but succumbed to the temptation and ignored the dangers which would return to haunt me later.
This new affair survives the critical doubts of her sister Joanne. I was still attending key dog training and trials with Sam and getting on well and surprisingly managed a full agenda of family outings and events with Diana and the girls, contributing to the hobbies and hobbies of the latter.
With Sam, I had access to shoot at Molesworth and at John Osborne's geese in the field opposite and then CFSA Ouse Washes for wildfowling. I used such time as I had to concentrate on long seen and memory retrieves, steadying him to shot and trying to run him without boring forward to much and he produced his best-ever points as a result.
He was mentioned in club magazine despatches for his Pointing Grading and was then eighth out of thirty-five Novices at the Laverstoke Park working test. He had been fit and healthy all summer but then went down with Gastro-enteritis, getting me up in the middle of the night to clear up his run. A diet of chicken and rice again after day's fast cleared him up on vets advice.
At Horning, I was planning the rebuilding of Heronshaw and I was still advising the St Neots & District Liberal Democrats and the tedium of paperwork and accounts was brightened up by the visit of former plot-owner Bill Clarke and his daughter. It was even more of a traumatic and eventful month for my best friend Nigel as he settled his insurance court case and separated from Lynn with a £250,000 cash and property settlement.
His personal life then takes a sexually-active turn as he frenetically searches for a love-match to replace her and Kate and then he has his full slate of business problems with MiPet etc. The months news is dominated by the IRA cease-fire and The Irish Times leads the way for Dublin to greet this as sufficiently permanent.
Back home, The chancellor edges up interest rates up 0.4% and gains few friends for doing so. Two grisly accidents with double-decker buses kill several as one overturns and another crashes into a low bridge. There is another ferry tragedy, this time in The Baltic with up to 1000 dead after the loading ramp doors fail, making the craft capsize within ten minutes.
A US 747 passenger plane also crashes, killing all 131 people on board. What appears to be a suicide pilot dies on the lawn of the US White House with no other casualties. There is a huge Mumps inoculation campaign underway for schoolchildren here after fear of an epidemic whilst authorities struggle to contain Pneumonic Plague in India.
Amongst the other news, my old sparring partner Cllr Derek Holley has a quadruple heart-valve by-pass operation at Papworth which brings back memories. In sport, Daimon Hill catches up Michael Schumacher in the Formula 1 Grand Prix table due to the latter's suspension.
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Ultra-early journey to shoot with Jim in the Norfolk marches where Sam made a good retrieve in a fast-flowing tidal stream.
Then to collect Wiggly from the train station for meal at the Floating Restaurant and night at The Hotel Nelson
Jim had arranged to have the day off from work and we had decided to try a day on the marshes, training the dogs and chancing our arm on the wildfowl.
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