Mikhail Gorbachev is visiting Chinese leader Deng Xiaopingin  for the first summit with China for 30 years
Mikhail Gorbachev is visiting Chinese leader Deng Xiaopingin for the first summit with China for 30 years

To St Neots this morning on a fine, warm and sunny day to get the dry cleaning done and my haircut. This afternoon, making lots of calls and progressing matters until I drafted a press letter about the unfairness of the District Council standing orders and then gave Daniel a long driving lesson around local villages delivering them. Mikhail Gorbachev is visiting China for the first summit in 30 years, it was the first day of the Hillsborough public enquiry.

It was another fine and warm day, with the sun shining for most of it. I had a lay in this morning, in view of my exertions of yesterday, and then I got showered, dressed ready for my breakfast of French Toast. I had decided to go to St Neots with Diana to get a lot of dry cleaning done and also my hair cut. This took all of the morning, but I was home for lunch and the afternoon. I made lots of telephone calls and expedited a whole host of problems and outstanding matters and then I did a press letter to political journalists about the unfairness of the new District Council Standing Orders. After tea, I took Daniel for a long drive around Little Paxton, St Neots, Huntingdon and St Ives to deliver my press letters and then came home to watch the news and to write up my journal. I spoke to both my own and Diana’s parents today who are all fine. Today saw the visit of Mikhail Gorbachev to Peking, China, and it was the first Soviet/Chinese summit for 30 years.

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