Diana still suffering her morning sickness badly as I look after the children and ducks, watching the Whitehall cenotaph service on TV and checking annual report papers
A lay in this morning, having slept the night without Diana; she having lay downstairs with her nausea all night. She also returned to bed and was quite ill all day, I having to prepare the meals and fend for the children. An unproductive day, therefore, but I did manage to clean out the ducks and this evening check through the typed Annual Reports and Accounts against the auditor’s meeting tomorrow.
A much colder day but still dry.
News today of a US build-up of its fleet off the Lebanon coast, and a strike by force is expected as the western air flights are cancelled to Beirut. The Syrian army is already on alert with reservists called up. President Reagan is visiting Korea with practiced publicity. Remembrance Sunday was marked as usual by the ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall with its two-minutes silence at 11.00am. I watched with Debbie and Daniel on television the full ceremony and it was very touching as over 6000 ex-servicemen marched past.
In Ireland, the northern Republicans elected Gerry Adams as their President but the violence will continue alongside the political initiative. The latest of three Cessna light aircraft crashes today killing its pilot.