A busy day organising meeting dates and the branch AGM and the sharing of my time between Town and District matters before finalising the Ros McKay press statement.
Then I arranged for the matter of the Gravel Pit Road to be put on the agenda for the next Parish Council meeting and for an HDC Planning Officer to attend before finally starting on my overdue accounts
I went to bed a bit earlier with Diana last night and then slept well, waking up after 7.00am this morning. Another sunny and warm day for which I dressed in shorts and a T-shirt to keep cool as I was not intending to meet anyone. A little late down to breakfast and then spent some time on the conservatory and plants which are still the subject of an aphid attack. To my desk after making a list of all of the outstanding things I had to resolve with my colleagues and then I sat and telephoned them in turn to get things resolved. In particular, I was needing to organise our Diary Dates and means of resolving communication and organisation needs with their being groups on both of the Town and District Councils now. There was also the question of the final arrangements of the replacement of Tony Carmedy by Ross McKay.
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I then found that Michael and Sally were getting together in Avenue Road and so drove over, leaving a diversionary message on my answering machine for Percy to pick up (who also joined me there). We ended up agreeing a new structure and provisional team of officers to propose for the branch AGM and then group meeting dates (every month), and then branch committee dates (every two months) until the end of 1991 which was quite good progress. Back home for lunch and then this afternoon doing more correspondence and receiving telephone calls on a range of ward issues. I agreed to give another history talk (this time to Kimbolton LHS) in November and finalised the press statement about Ross McKay.
After tea, I continued this process, updated my journal and arranged for the matter of the Gravel Pit Road to be put on the agenda for the next Parish Council meeting where I have also arranged to invite an HDC planning department representative to come and explain the existing landscaping proposals. After this, I typed up a new outstanding action list and then finally started on my latest accounts and finance work which had been hanging over me.