This afternoon, a teatime visit from Chi-Chi Nwanoku and her Australian cousins Beverley, Gary and Alexander, from Melbourne

 

Breakfast  on Boxing Day. Porridge AND toast.

 

Before marathon lunch December 25 15.00 to 18.30, Edwina, JW, Kina. Somehow I omitted to take any pictures during the lunch itself.

Lindsay had only just put the turkey in the main oven when it stopped working. She had to take it to Edwina's and use her's. We had sausages, chestnut stuffing, red cabbage, sprouts, parsnips and roast potatos (cooked in the smaller top oven) plus bread sauce and cranberry sauce, followed by St Stephen's pudding and mince pies with vanilla custard and brandy butter. Lindsay excelled herself in bringing it all together.

My new Great-Niece

My new Great-Niece Veronica and her mother Suzie, who is a refugee from Sudan Veronica's Dad is George Stewart, Lindsay's brother Andrew's elder son. They live in Canberra.

 

Ursula

 

This week

Monday:

Chaired Bahrain seminar in Committee Room G. Good attendance by some regional TV, but no al-Jezira.

Supplementary question on Democratic Republic of Congo Third Reading of my Caravan Sites Bill passed. Andrew George MP has kindly agreed to take it forward in the Commons.

Annual meeting of Silbury Fund Trustees

Tuesday:

Meeting with GE-Hitachi to discuss progress of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's evaluation of the options for disposal of 100 tonnes of Plutonium at Sellafield

Crime and Courts Bill: amendments on immigration http://bit.ly/UgFSHe

Meeting of the APPG on Ahmadiyya Muslims

Wednesday

EU Subcommittee F: scrutiny, and looking ahead to forthcoming inquiry on opting back into 130 instruments which lapsed for the UK on account of the Dublin Treaty, a hot potato for the right wing of the Tory Party.

This was the last day of term.

Friday, lunch at the National Liberal Club with Ursula. She set me the task of figuring out the two cartoons, both of which I managed, though I generally don't see the point of English ones.

The three kings are puzzled.

Speaking at a meeting in Committee Room 4A on November 29 organised by the People's Mojahedin of Iran to discuss the appalling condition of their members in the incongruously named 'Camp Liberty'

Good by-election result

Harrogate BC, Bilton

Date: 13/12/2012

LD Valerie Rodgers 623 (46.0; +8.8)
Con 395 (29.2; -16.1)
Lab 208 (15.4; -2.1)
UKIP 127 (9.4; +9.4)

Majority 228

Turnout 31.03%

LD gain from Con.

Percentage change is since May 2011.

 

Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission meeting at Flodden Road, December 8-9, 2012

 

 

 

After lunch at the House Monday December 10 wih Jan Rendle and  son Lewis, from Avebury

Haematology November 26, 2012

WBC Just below normal range

HB Much below normal range but stable

Plt Higher than normal range and deteriorating, but likely to becorrected by increased Hydroxycarbamide

Neutrophils Below lower limit and may be adversely affected by increased Hydroxcarbamide

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