Mainly working inside on another warm and sunny day which was planned to became cloudy later today with rain soon forecast. I was taking phone calls and organising my office work as my gardener/handyman completed his first trial week and will not continue. A visit to Brittains in St Neots to order all manner of household furnishings and then to collect office accessories on the way home. Mum has had a successful stay at Redgrave and the shop seems to be doing well for Freda but I had a complaining call from the local Police Divisional Commander, who was upset with the last FOCUS
Another warm and sunny day but I spent most of the day inside and working away at my administration. Some letters, lots of telephone calls from constituents and about my office and then a visit from the electrician who will be helping with my office re-wiring. The handyman was cleaning the windows today but made quite a meal of it, although they were very dirty and had not been done for some time. It was the end of his two weeks probationary period today and both he and I are willing for the relationship to continue. Later this afternoon, I paid him for the week and then went into St Neots and handled some building society transactions. I then rendezvoused with Di at Brittains and started to make my selections of office carpets and blinds for the renovations. Di managed to get Debbie along with her to look at the same things (plus furniture) for her new bedroom. They are coming to take measurements for the carpets on Monday.
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Dropped in on the office supplies place on the way back and bought some new folders for my action papers and then tried to sort my desk out when I got back. I had long telephone conversations with my mother and sister today. Mum is back home after a very successful trip to stay at Redgrave and both are getting on fine and would welcome another visit in a few weeks. The shop is doing well with the turnover creeping up over the £1750 per week mark and will get back to the £2000 level soon. An unsettling call from the local Police Divisional Commander who was upset with the last FOCUS and I had to write a long letter back and enclose FOCUS copies to try to make it up. I had a long chat with Michael and Percy today about needing to get more members and activists as well as continuing to get our message across to the press, as newspaper coverage has been pretty poor lately. It became cloudy later today and rain is forecast but I still had to spend a long time watering the garden.