Long , Lazy cold and frosty morning in bed reading and watching our local birds feeding as 30,000 people form a human ring around the 7mil Greenham Common nuclear base perimeter and the nuclear-armed HMS Invincible is refused a berth in Australia
An even longer and lazier lay in, reading the Sunday Times in detail; having woken up later than usual after the short night. Interest today in watching a variety of finches, sparrows and starlings feeding from the “nut-feeder” which I have now suspended from the hawthorn tree outside our lounge window. Later, before lunch, Michael Heseltine appears on television to justify the government armaments policy and British Aircraft Carrier, Invincible, is refused access today to Australian and soon Japanese waters.
The carrier is rumoured to have nuclear weapons on board and needs repairs which should now be done in Singapore. Later today, preparations are in hand for a mass public demonstration at Greenham Common where previously a human ring had formed holding hands around the 7 mile military site. This then takes place in great numbers and the demonstrators tear down the protective fence in parts, knocking unconscious a Police Inspector for half an hour. The overnight frost cleared very slowly today and the weather remains cold as over 50 arrests are made by this evening at Greenham Common from an estimated 30,000 that demonstrated.