Relaxing Sunday enjoying a full English breakfast and then siting nest boxes before I turn to the Comart telephone call monitoring system to view those dodgy staff calls as the Thatcher family’s construction share dealings come under scrutiny
Another lay in to read the Sunday Times, write up my journal and sift through many brief case papers. A good fried breakfast of duck egg, bacon, fried bread, mushrooms and tomato with apple juice. Up at 10.00 and out to clean out the duck house at 10.30. Only five eggs and the hutch is a fair mess. A good tour of the gardens to survey the land for nest boxes. Eventually I put one with a small entrance hole box on the largest tree visible from our dining room window; an open box on the old plot amongst the conifer hedge; and a large nest box of my own manufacture near the river. This latter masterpiece, from an RSPB design, is supposed to suit either the Stock Dove, the Little Owl, or a Jackdaw, but I don’t think there are any in the neighbourhood!
I clean and hoover the car late today and this evening sort through my office papers against tomorrow. Amongst them a listing of every phone call made from Comart in February together with its originator, number, cost, duration etc. Fascinating! A little late to bed after an evening’s reading of bird books. No time unfortunately for my customary Sunday hair wash and bath. In the news this morning, revelations of the Thatcher family’s financial dealings for Cementation Construction – they are due a fall soon I wonder. The weather cold and with very misty rain all day but we had our open fire to keep us warm.