Pathfinder House before demolition and replacement
Pathfinder House before demolition and replacement

After an early start to the day, reviewing the HDC Finance Agenda with Michael Pope, the rest of the day working on correspondence and briefing matter for my council colleagues and being interviewed by radio and newspaper journalists about my anti-smoking motions which are before the council. I had also run up the Amstrad and used Wayplan to calculate passage plans round from Norfolk to Kings Lynn.

This evening’s meeting went very well as Michael, and I held the Tories to account for the inefficiency of its operation and also the insufficiency of its spending plans.

I was up on time today and joined the girls at the breakfast table as usual. My morning chores extended this morning to include the swimming pool and then Michael Pope arrived at 8.15am for a meeting to review the evening's HDC Finance agenda. We went through all of the numerous items and took them apart, finding plenty to criticise the council about in terms of the inefficiency of its operation and also the insufficiency of its spending plans. We were not able to finish up this process until after 9.30am as there was so much to consider. The rest of my day working on correspondence and briefing matter for my council colleagues and also being interviewed by radio and newspaper journalists about my anti-smoking motions which are before the council.

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After tea, I was off to Pathfinder House to progress this and the other matters in the Finance and General Purposes Committee. The evening went quite well with Michael and I obviously well-prepared and asking all sorts of penetrating questions to the obvious irritation of the Tory leader. We still finished before 9.00pm and then I came home to rest in front of the TV for a while before going to bed. Earlier today, I had also run up the Amstrad and used Wayplan to calculate passage plans round from Norfolk to Kings Lynn for the next two weekends. These showed the optimum times to leave as being at Gorleston high water which meant that this coming weekend was best as this time was around 9.00am rather than very early in the morning.