The Berlin Wall is breached for the first time between East and West at the Sandkrug Bridge crossing-point on Invaliden Strasse late on the 9th November 1989
The Berlin Wall is breached for the first time between East and West at the Sandkrug Bridge crossing-point on Invaliden Strasse late on the 9th November 1989

A slow start after another late night but then I wrote a press release about council activities before visiting mum and dad and finding dad groggy and mum tired. After delivery of the press releases, I took Di to lunch at the Berney Inn in Wyboston, came home to a barrage of telephone calls and a call from the Southwest Cambs Liberal Democrats to be their parliamentary candidate!

The news is all about Berlin as the barriers thrown open and Berliners are hugged and kissed in triumph and joy but also of a scandal involving criminally sold contaminated cattle feeds containing lead sulphate

I was a little too late to bed again and was therefore slow to get going this morning, as a consequence. I worked at my desk on several matters and finally a press release on the latest Poll Tax news and my questions to the Full Council next week. Then we visited Mum and Dad. We found Dad very groggy and sleepy and hardly able to take notice of what was happening. Mum was tired after a blood test sample, but we had a nice conversation, and all was at peace. The home will have a single room for Mum but she wants to stay with Dad in the double room for the time being. Then I took Di to deliver the press releases and mail and we had lunch at the Berney Inn Wyboston.

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I had a rest for an hour when I got home and then took a barrage of telephone calls mainly about the St Neots Museum fundraising launch next week and the Derek Giles Eaton Socon by-election campaign. This evening, I sat and went through two weeks local newspapers for press cuttings on Paxton and personal affairs. One of my phone calls today was an invitation by Southwest Cambs. Liberal Democrats to be their parliamentary candidate for the general election! I will consider it and probably turn it down as being too demanding on local resources to no great purpose in such a strong Tory area.

The news is of the historical developments in Berlin whether border barriers were thrown open and jubilant Berliners hugged and kissed in triumph and joy. They danced and celebrated on the top of the Berlin Wall. The crisis over the lead contamination of cattle feeds is spreading with many more farms having their milk impounded and livestock banned from movement. It seems that grain was contaminated by lead sulphate in a ship’s hold, condemned for destruction and then sold criminally and covertly for animal feed. Today was wet and cool again and the fall of leaves is well underway.