Supervising the builders after a slow start today and then talking to the Parish Council about my contributions to the evening’s meeting to be made whilst I would be mainly elsewhere at the HDC Consultative Committee until nearly the end after which I attended a nice social event at the Parish Chairman’s house this evening with mince pies and sherry being served Thatcher was continuing her row with Belgium/Ireland representatives at the Common Market Summit in Rhodes
I had an unsettled night with Diana thrashing about, affected by her bad cold, I therefore slept in a bit this morning and was late down to breakfast. I was still in the bathroom when first the Carpenter arrived to fit the lounge/conservatory door frame and when Michael Pope telephoned with a local planning query. I spent some time today supervising the builders: The plumber/electricians were working on the main pump and heating pipes for the conservatory pond and the bricklayer came this afternoon to form the pump house walls.
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In fact, they were getting in one-another’s way! I worked on my outstanding list of action items and had to talk to the Little Paxton Parish Clerk and Chairman of Planning to make my inputs to the meeting that I would be missing later. I then made up an action list of all my outstanding items and compiled a copy of my comments and type them out to ensure my input to this evening’s HDC Consultative Committee meeting. I made several phone calls also to the planning department about the outstanding consents at School Lane as they seem to have started work on a roadway enlargement. I was hopelessly delayed in my HDC meeting tonight and only arrived for the last few minutes of the Little Paxton Parish Council meeting but I still joined the Parish Chairman for mince pies and sherry afterwards. There was news tonight of the Common Market Summit in Rhodes with the row over the IRA extradition case was souring relationships between Britain and Belgium/Ireland.