Working on at Heronshaw as Steve arrived to help, continuing to fill the skip and amending the piling plan to incorporate the Amis recommendations. Then rushing back to get to my last Local Government Consultation meeting, this time in Huntingdon.
As John Major calls a General Election, which I thought the worst mistake of his (short) career. The stock exchange was falling sharply and now no longer any chance of an interest rate cut.
After sleeping overnight in Heronshaw, I was out early to continue filling the skip, having arranged its replacement with a larger empty one this morning. Steve arrived later in the morning, the skip having been exchanged, and he took over from me and carried on filling it up. The Amis crew came with the piling machine and soon had it set up and working. I had a chat with Steve about the lay out of the piles and then decided to add the extra two that Mr Amis had suggested and then also to even the spacing of the piles in the boathouse section; standardising then on a spacing of 2500mm instead of some being at 3125mm and others at half of that.
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I re-wrote the piling plan with all of the dimensions on it and then marked all these out afresh with new piles of sand which took some time to do. I then went through my detailed building plans with Steven, and he made several suggestions. Then I was in a hurry to get back and had a mad drive to arrive in Paxton in time to get fed, showered and changed so as to be able to rush out and get to my last Local Government Consultation meeting, this time in Huntingdon. It went well as a meeting, but I regretted having to keep rushing back for these occasions. I learned today that John Major had called the General Election for April 9th, despite having come through the budget badly and being behind in the opinion polls. He may well have made the worst mistake of his (short) career. The stock exchange is falling sharply and there is no longer any chance of an interest rate cut.