After putting my Discovery in for an electrical repair, I just had time to go home to set mole traps before Daniel visited me to buy his Rover 825i car before he took Dawn roller skating.
The Lord Chief Justice and The House of Lords oppose the government over its planned reforms to the criminal justice system and magistracy.
My visit to Norfolk had been planned to put the Discovery in for the repair of its electrical fault and the rest of these three days planned round it to use the time to work at Horning. My automatic radio gave me my morning call at 7.00am after an unsettled night trying to keep warm and comfortable in a different bed. I was reluctant to rise and the more so as the sky was clear and the day cold.
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There was time for my breakfast before taking Sam out for a walk but it was good to see how keen he was to run on the tracks at Horning again. He both likes the change and enjoys the familiarity, I think. The journey to Cromer Road, Norwich, and there to leave my car at the workshops of Mann Egerton after showing them that the electrical problem still existed. They gave me a diesel Land Rover Defender on loan and it was interesting driving this around Norwich to do some chores.
I had carried my portable telephone on board and called before visiting both the security alarm component suppliers and then two garages offering Rover 825i cars. I obtained my smoke alarms and then then looked at two examples of the car that Daniel wanted. Upon examining the second, I called Daniel and he agreed to drive from Paxton and take a half-day off to view them both himself. I just had time to go home, clear the lawn of molehills and then set three mole traps before I got his call.
He had seen the first and wanted me to meet him to compare notes and see the second. He eventually chose one and came back to Harnser for a tea of fried scampi and boiled peas that I prepared especially after I had walked the dog. The D-registered car cost him £2300 plus £500 allowed for his Montega, had previously had two owners, done 78,000 miles and was to be serviced and repaired first, then taxed and tested for a year. He could not stop talking about his new car and went off jubilant to take Dawn roller-skating as I settled down to installing the rest of the alarm contacts that, once wired, would complete my alarm system.
I stayed up late having a hair-wash, bath and then my bedtime Bournvita and banana as I updated the day's journal. The government was now in trouble with The Lord Chief Justice and The House of Lords over its planned reforms to the criminal justice system and magistracy. Abolition of the ancient right of silence for accused persons is bad enough but the central government appointment of the membership and chairmanship of police authorities and also the approval of contracts for Clerks of Magistrates is seen as authoritarian and dangerous.