David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
After a fine night’s sleep, preparing to take the family to Norfolk and briefing the gardener on work to do in our absence. Then, on arrival, taking the girls for a dip in the Horning Leisure Centre pool and also a trip to Wroxham library.
Di mowed the lawns with our good lawn mower and I started up the strimmer and completed half of the task before dusk. It was around 11.00pm by the time I packed up and turned in for the night by which time the house had cooled down quite a lot after the summer's hottest day of the year so far.
I slept better than for several nights passed, having got to bed by 10.30pm for a change. The only interruption was to be awoken by the cool breeze coming from the wide-open French windows which I had to get up and shut at 3.00am.
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On a hot and sunny day, Sam finished 4th of 24 Novices at the Hungarian Vizsla Working Test. The journey back via Hail Weston where I picked up a copy of the latest Eynesbury election leaflet from John Roscoe who had been working on it all day.
Daiman Hill won the British Grand Prix today, an emotional achievement in view of the fete of his late racing driver father.
Several Tory M.P.'s have been trapped into accepting bribes to put down parliamentary questions and this has put John Major's party into even greater realms of unpopularity.
A break from spending time and trouble on electioneering as I took Sam out for the day and ran him in the annual working test of the Hungarian Vizsla Society at Newport Pagnell.
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The last day of campaigning for me before spending lunchtime with Diana and the girls at The Little Chef, Debbie had a girl’s night out this evening and then stayed away at Zoe Bee's house for the night which was a bit worrying.
The weather continues hot and sunny, and I was out in it for much of the day. Two good little sessions with Sam who again did everything that I asked and two long and arduous canvassing sessions in Eynesbury.
Letting Debbie join Diana for the normal Friday shopping trip to Bedford I concentrated on paperwork and campaigning but at the end of a tiring and hot week, I decided that the candidate and I should finish at 8.00am to let me come home and her spend some time with her friends at the wine bar.
A long time on the telephone to Jim this evening; having missed him recently
Debbie joined Diana for the normal Friday shopping trip to Bedford but I was not invited to join them and so I stayed at home and spent the morning catching up on a mound of paperwork and ended up with lots of bills paid and letters to post.
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A long walk with Sam to start with, across the common and over to the river for some jumping, long retrieves and waterwork after which the sale of my Rolls Royce was completed today, and it was driven away.
Some agonising over Alf and Freda taking advantage of me concerning my loan but Diana persuaded me not to send the letter but to wait until the end of the summer.
Then Across to Luke Street later to sort out the next priorities for canvassing where Derek and our candidate had been out and Rob had also returned some cards. I stayed there and counselled her on financial issues.
The day was warm and sunny again and this made for tiring conditions after my late nights talking and working. A long walk with Sam to start with, across the common and over to the river for some jumping, long retrieves and waterwork.
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Della's swimming and speech day without personal success but at least her house, Stafford, won the Work Shield for the best balance of "stars less bars" awarded for effort and she had the highest individual total that helped them do it.
Home to give Sam his second run of the day with much emphasis on ‘unseen retrieves’ and then a post canvassing chat with our candidate about her financial problems, political ambitions and personal goals before turning in.
Some parents have children who win sporting events, class and subject prizes and become House Captains and Head Girls & Boys, but we do not.
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