I stayed at home this morning, working on the lawn, as a plumber/electrician’s mate came this morning and laid electricity cable and then I took the family to The Bridge Hotel in St Neots for lunch and on to Willington’s Garden Centre. Later to accompany Michael Pope for his photo session as the day turned sunny. This evening, Daniel and I wrestled with the Apple Mac trying to understand PageMaker without manuals. The Greek cruise ship sinking has now believed to have killed a schoolteacher and a child. Hurricane Joan is devastating Nicaragua with at least 28 dead and some 140 missing.
A bit restless last night. At 10:30pm, I had a trio of youths outside our house and opening the gate to the Riverside Gardens and I had to go out onto the balcony to frighten them away. Poor Di hasn’t been well today. “griping” pains in her lower abdomen due to ovulation and then tiredness made her go to bed in late afternoon. I stayed at home this morning, raking leaves off the front lawn and preparing to resume top dressing. I then realised the builders would have to install a soak away and dig it up again so I thought better of it. The plumber/electrician’s mate came this morning and laid electricity cable and conduit ready for Monday’s concreting of the floor. Some time for lunch and then I drove the family into St Neots to the Bridge Hotel, first dropping off three jackets and trousers of mine to the dry cleaners. I enjoyed my fried plaice and salad as usual there. Drove over to Willington’s Garden Centre afterwards and Di and I decided that the terracotta planters would be the best for our conservatory. I also made a mental note of the hose reel and gardening tool make that I would want when equipping the conservatory. Home and then I called Michael Pope and we went off around St Neots to take several black-and-white photographs for forthcoming publicity purposes.
The day had turned out sunny in the end and was ideal for this purpose. Tonight, Di had sloped off to bed and Daniel and I wrestled with the Apple Mac trying to understand PageMaker but had to give up due to the difficulty of operating these complicated programs without manuals. Then unwound by taking this week’s press cuttings from the local papers and then writing up my journal. The news tonight of the Greek cruise ship sinking is taken a turn for the worst with a British school teacher now unaccounted for as well the search for the missing girl has been called off and she is presumed dead. In the latest hurricane to build up as a danger, called Joan, 28 people have died and 140 are missing in Nicaragua. Police in Italy have arrested a Lebanese woman who had photographs of three American hostages which may lead the anti-terrorist forces to find out more about their whereabouts.