A bad night and poor start to the day suffering as I had caught the family cough but I took some aspirin and carried on working on the Range Rover tow bar this morning and then my Reliant wheels this afternoon. This evening editing my Ray House notes ready to see Mrs Beeson before late to my journal and the Tv news. Another aviation ‘near miss’ between passenger aircraft over Essex, another civilian killing by the RUC at a checkpoint and the Israelis kill three more Arabs as part of further atrocities. Brazil seeks international help to cope with their flooding disaster with 540 dead and 10,000 homeless
Had an appalling poor night, having a bad sore throat coming on. At last I had caught the illness that had been keeping my family coughing for weeks. Got my morning tea a little early as a consequence and then got up, showered and dressed and was early for breakfast. A nice fried meal once again for a Sunday. I took some aspirin and decided to go out and do some work anyway. First, I reassembled the Range Rover tow bar after painting it yesterday. Then, I took time to sort out all my spanners into metric, A/F and British, until it was time for coffee. Later I took off the Renault’s rear wheels, then the brake hubs, and finally brushed off the chassis underneath.
All afternoon I painted the wheels etc in Hammerite gloss and the chassis in plain Hammerite, until I was shattered and my throat was worse from the fumes. In for tea, then out to put away the ducks and tidy things up. The rest of this evening I spent on my history, doing most of the section on Ray House, so that I would be ready to see Mrs Beeson this week. Late to my journal and the TV news. The boys (Daniel plus his friends Gary and Steve, who are staying at the moment) were slow to get to bed and making too much noise and so I had to tell them off a bit. Main news this evening is of another air ‘near miss’ between passenger aircraft – this time over Essex. In Ulster, the army kills a man at a security checkpoint and local people say he was shot in the back as he walked alone. There is no claim that he had a weapon and the RUC said that they ‘deeply regretted’ his death. All this after the rumpus on the ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy. The Israelis have killed three more Arabs, as more pictures are released of atrocities being carried out by the Israeli troops. Brazil is now asking for international help for its flood victims and in particular vaccines against typhoid, tetanus and yellow fever. 10,000 are homeless and some streets under 10ft of water.