Working on my investment summaries paper and yesterday’s journal before we enjoy a lunch of roast beef on a soaking wet day and then some televised football before resuming work. A £10million government compensation package to compensate the haemophiliac victims of AIDS. Nelson Piquet and Williams have won the F1 World Championships and the UK postal union seeks support for a strike over working conditions
A long lay in and slow start to the day, as the effect of our holiday time changes and several late nights finally catch up with us. Washed, shaved and dressed for breakfast of fried egg, bacon and tomato, then the rest of the morning reading my paper, updating the journal and getting a few other things out of the way. It had poured with rain again overnight and everything is soaking wet once more. The river is only just below the moorings level again, after another deluge the night before last and I suppose we will see some more flooding again soon. The other day I actually saw a magpie for the first time, flying over our riverside garden and many creatures feeding patterns must have been disrupted by this very wet and strange year. Had to go out myself to feed the ducks and doves quite late, as Daniel was distracted by the arrival of his friend Paul, who had come over from his new home at Raunds for the day.
Time only for the paper and yesterday’s journal before lunch of roast beef, which we had in the kitchen to save time and trouble. This afternoon, I did some more updating work on my investment summaries and then relaxed to watch the Manchester United vs Liverpool football league match. An exciting televised game, which ended in a 1 all draw, leaving Arsenal at the top of the table. Made my own tea of tinned sardines, in preference to the toast that Diana was offering everybody, and then worked all evening on my investment and income summaries, just finishing them before bedtime. News tonight is of a government compensation package of £10million to compensate the haemophiliac victims of AIDS, who caught the virus from NHS prescription blood products. The Haemophiliac Association is grateful for the money, but the government’s political opponents criticise its amount and reckon the government is getting off cheap in comparison to the extent of compensation agreed for other vaccination victims recently. More meetings take place to try to clear the way for an East/West arms summit next month and still the US Administration meets Congressional representatives to try to agree steps to close the US budget deficit. This latter log-jam is the brake on economic recovery for the rest of the world, which looks on nervously (in fact such an agreement for deflation would probably make the world’s economic performance worse, not better, but that fact is lost on everyone). Gerhard Berger won the Australian Grand Prix in a Ferrari and so Nelson Piquet and Williams must have won the World Championships. Prospects of industrial trouble in Britain’s postal services, as the union takes a postal ballot to seek support for an all-out strike in protest over working conditions.