Good Byte Shop Review Meeting setting realistic budgets after magazine interview and before an evening watching Fame on TV and hearing of Yorkshire Mining pickets stopping motorway traffic and a one day London Transport stoppage over GLC abolition as Thatcher’s government stops EEC payments illegally

Early to the office and to sort out my papers and get ready for a busy day. Then to review the mail and attend an interview meeting with John Lamb and the E.C.Magazine – a European software journal. We range over the extent of our plans for French and German sales subsidiaries until it is time for the start of the Byte Shop Review and Budgeting Meeting. A good day with consistent Byte Shop sales achievements, good stock control and progress on the new budget year plans.

I stay on after to minute this week’s meetings, clear my desk and prepare for a full day out of the office tomorrow. Home to see the end of “Fame” and the news on television. News today of widespread stoppage of motorway traffic by the Yorkshire miners pickets and a one day complete stoppage of London Transport in protest over the abolition of the GLC control. Also the Government decide to withhold advance payments to the EEC in the budget dispute, a course described as ‘illegal’ by EEC officials. To bed on time and rest before the early start for tomorrows BMMG breakfast meeting.