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Sunday April 3rd
Yesterday was a pretty quiet day. We went to Sainsbury’s the morning and in the early afternoon I went swimming Banatynes in Wakefield. I have been going there for about five years and I love it. I have a chat with somebody I have got to know. We were in the Jacuzzi. He knows I am a doctor and on one occasion got hold my hand and put my finger on his eyelid so I can feel a cyst! This was while we were in the Jacuzzi. In the afternoon I watched Andrew Neil’s This Week on the television and then had a disastrous time on the Internet. I booked a Virgin Atlantic flight from Manchester to Orlando for the November and forgot to time the last letter of Sloan. I could not work out how to remedy this until this morning when I phoned in. It cost me £30.00! A couple of years ago I booked flights for 4 of us to Perugia and was a year out. That also cost me to change.
I watched a great Daniel Barenboim masterclass teaching the piano. He is a phenomenon and can play complex pieces without music and without looking at the keyboard. In th afternoon we bought some new bedroom furniture for the spare bedroom and went for a walk in Fryston in order to ward off the effects of a Chinese meal we will have tonight. I had a nice email form a Cambridge University student whom I have promised a DVD about the 1984 miners’ strike. He came up to interview me about my experiences for his degree dissertation. He deserves to do well. I weighed 50 newsletters as I wanted a method of counting them easily tomorrow morning when we manage their distribution. I have donated some money to enable some young or unemployed people to earn a bit of something delivering these. I have started reading John Mortimer’s “Summer Lease” which is great and am pleased that the bin man’s (Sean Donnelly aka MC NxtGen) anti NHS reforms rap has been such a hit. It has had 200000 hits on youtube and he has been asked to do one for the royal wedding.