Modern Warwick University Campas
Modern Warwick University Campas

After calling the Huntingdon registry office to unsuccessfully attempt the correction to Dad’s death registration, I drove Daniel to Warwick and we agreed the University course may be good but the place is something to be desired. Once home, slow meeting of St Neots Museum committee meeting before home late to bed.

The London Ambulance controllers walked out today in sympathy with the ambulancemen. They say that people are dying due to an inefficient 999 service and that they want no part of it. Sir Anthony Meyer has been formally nominated to oppose Thatcher for the Tory leadership and this is her first contest since taking over 14 years ago. A combined front of doctors, nurses and midwives have attacked the government in opposition to the proposed NHS reforms.

I was down to breakfast with the family and then quickly out with Daniel. Today, I was due to take him to Warwick University for his interview but first had to drop in at the Huntingdon Registry Office to get the correction done to Dad’s death registration. This they did and the first of the certificates was correctly made out but the next two were wrongly done again! I only noticed this afterwards and will have to get them changed.

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On to Warwick, stopping at Watford Gap Services on the way for a coffee break. Once we arrived, I left Daniel at the computer studies building, to pick him up later at 3:30pm. I drove off to the Coventry town centre, parked, and had a look around and had a bit of lunch. A strange place. Mediaeval timber framed buildings had been disassembled and moved during redevelopment to be replaced in a single road. The rest of the old city seem now to be a big shopping centre, ring road and building site. I collected Dan on schedule and his views of Coventry/Warwick University was similar – the degree may be well-regarded here but the accommodation and character of the place left something to be desired.

A good journey home, tea, and then out to a meeting of St Neots Museum committee this evening. A long-winded affair at a very pedestrian pace. Few members attended and two of those left before the end. Home at nearly 10pm, to my Journal and then to bed. The London Ambulance controllers walked out today in sympathy with the ambulancemen. They say that people are dying due to an inefficient 999 service and that they want no part of it. Sir Anthony Meyer has been formally nominated to oppose Thatcher for the Tory leadership and this is her first contest since taking over 14 years ago. A combined front of doctors, nurses and midwives have attacked the government in opposition to the proposed NHS reforms