Byte Shop Review as I come down with a cold and go home early to find the builders having installed the fireplace and to hear of the miners and French lorry drivers protests

Up on time and early to the office though suffering from a head cold. A poor day of little progress on office matters but time this morning to review the 3 year Byte Shop Plan with Peter King and brief him on its completion. An afternoon of ineffectual paperwork and home early to a poor welcome from Diana. Used to me coming in late, the tea is not ready and I get in the way. To , with a view of doing some work but drowsy and soon to an uneasy sleep. The builders today install most of the fireplace. The weather is milder but with chilly breezes and our fruit and veg man takes six boxes of duck eggs to market to see what they will realise. Today also the NCB Chairman, Ian McGregor, is knocked to the ground in a miners jostle and, on the continent, massive road jams build up as the French lorry drivers start demonstrating. It looks as if the present recession is giving rise to the civil unrest that I expected long ago.