Tuesday, October 30, 2018

The changing world (208) Jan 1998

1st Jan 98 Visit from Evan Horton.
3rd          Session early morning.
4th           Led morning service then to Braithwaite's with Mr O.
5th           Rachel on geriatric placement in Hampstead. Deb back to college.
6th           IPC funeral Florence Horsnell with remarkable tribute from Hereward, vicar of St Mellitus, Hanwell. Remarkable for an honest tribute to a difficult woman who had done the rounds of local churches.
7th           With Deb to good Questors civic performance of Grimm's Tales.
8th           Session in evening. Feeling I am not as active as I should be.
9th           Bad nose bleed at work. Foot dressed. Yakshita treated us, pharmacist Vivek and staff to meal at Brilliant, Southall which is a top Indian restaurant patronised by Prince Charles.
10th         Prayer breakfast.Nose bleed.Neil Richardson gave me season tickets to Arsenal 2 Leeds 1 with Trevor Wells. Nose bleed again and the runs.
11th         Rota. Mark Gouge to lunch. Rachel back from Canterbury with friend.
12th         Toe dressed. Found I have high blood pressure and no doubt that accounts for nose bleeds.
13th         Group planning manifesto.
14th         Doctor removed part of toe under local anaesthetic but it still hurt. Katy has £800 tax bill. Heard from Margery her story of adoption and lack of affection from adoptive parents.
15th         Day drive to Richmond to discus life plan for Dorothy with Mencap carers.
16th         Extra work kept me there late. Foot dressed.
17th         To Wells for lunch and walk by Thames.
18th          SC on Samson and then on eschatology where we differ on Mat 24.
19th          SS case conference with Margery and Robbin concerning dale. I did not stay for the judgement.
20th          Toe dressed. On antibiotic for it. SS group.
21st           Housegroup on Ps 119. Katy received good report on Deb at West Thames college.
22nd         SS committee. Press accuse Clinton of perverting the course of justice.
23rd          Window salesmen canvassing us. SC tells me that BB's mother reported she had read her daughter's diary and she had written that LD had assaulted her after lunch Christmas Day at their home.
24th          With SC to LD who seemed close to confessing the assault but then he denied initiating anything. Haymills to see fly tipping reported.
25th          Took membership class before church. Evening spoke on postmillennialism.
27th           Central heating engineer did not sort all the problems with thermostat and lack of heat in David's room.
28th           Oldfield governors.
29th           Window salesman persuaded me to but one but then I had doubts. katy told she may need surgery.
30th           BB's parents are divided over whether to do to the police with her diary allegation of assault.
31st           Elder's prayer.


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