Haughey fails to get a majority in the Irish elections but will try to form a government
Haughey fails to get a majority in the Irish elections but will try to form a government

At home on a cold and blustery day completing my history edits and merging my scrap book items such that the subsequent filing and printing took me until way into the night as the sell-off of Leyland trucks is a done deal but the rest of British Leyland is saved with £750m aid. Haughey fails to get a majority in the Irish elections but will try to form a government

A cold, blustery day. Started it early and was down to breakfast on time, then got straight down to my Little Paxton history. Was first completing a final couple of edits and then printed out all of the miscellaneous files that had been updated. This included my Anglo-Saxon section, the pre and post enclosure surveys and the start of the section on pre-war L.P. For lunch, Di’s mother came, and we had a pie and sausages. No sign of Charles, Di’s Father, who stays at home these days.

Worked on all afternoon. Daniel came home from school and has broken up for half term. He was cadging money, as usual. A little time with the children, but wanted to press on. Worked all evening and then well into the night. I was photocopying photos and scrap book items and merging the images with printed output from the word processor – quite a job, but a very good effect! Did not go to bed until about 1.45am, but I still put everything away and cleared up my room afterwards. No time for the TV news, but from the next day’s paper, the selloff of the Leyland Trucks division to Daf of Holland is settled and BL get the £750m government aid that they were looking for (for the rest of the company’s survival) in financial support, as per their corporate plan. In the Republic of Ireland, Charles Haughey has missed an outright majority in the Dail Eireann, but will still be trying to form a government, as he is in charge of the largest party. The stock exchange fell at last with profit-taking.