Latest discovery was of the Lockerbie bomb was hidden in a radio-cassette player
Latest discovery was of the Lockerbie bomb was hidden in a radio-cassette player

This morning working on The Haylings section of my Paxton Park book chapter and this afternoon taking Debbie and Helen horse-riding on Sundance after they had brought home their satisfactory school assessments. This evening wasted chasing a phantom parish council booking, which was a cock-up, and then hearing of the ‘Harrison Way’ St Ives road-naming reversal and making a fuss about it. The Lockerbie bomb was hidden in a radio-cassette player and the world’s stock exchanges are sliding again

An earlier night and a more relaxed awakening with a full eight hours of sleep for a change. I fed the fish and found all except the Ohgon feeding freely. He tried spat the pellets out and did not try again. The nitrite level is well down, and I hope the fish will strengthen now. I spent this morning on my history, editing and rewriting the last section of Paxton Park, this time on The Haylings. This afternoon, I took Debbie and her friend, Helen from Perry, horse riding on Sundance and they thoroughly enjoyed it and rode well. They had brought home their school assessments and Debbie is doing okay and Helen even better.

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I had intended to get back to my history this evening, but Di had spotted a note in my diary that said ‘7:30pm village hall’ and I started a chase to find out what it was. A call to the village hall organiser said there was no village hall meeting, but that the parish council had booked it. I went along to find no parish meeting and so call the organisers again who confirmed the above, but nothing been made for the parish council for the following Thursday (when the parish papers said there was to be a meeting!). Several phone calls later I straightened out the bookings for everybody but had wasted my evening. As I was out and about, I dropped in to see Michael who had left a message on my answering system. He gave me the news that, though the Democrats had supported the adoption of the name ‘Harrison Way’ in St Ives for the bypass, the Tories and Labour had been against it and the matter was lost. I then use the rest of the evening making capital out of this circumstance by alerting the St Ives Democrats for a political mileage to be made, sowing the seeds of recrimination amongst the Tory camp, and spilling the beans to the St Ives Civic Society to make of it what they wished. The news today is of the Lockerbie bomb being due to an explosive hidden in a radio-cassette player. Britain has responded to Iran’s ‘unacceptable threats’ to the British author, Salman Rushdie. The world’s stock exchanges are slipping back again with uncertainty over inflation and interest rates.