Boxing Day reading and relaxing playing computer games with Daniel before Cambridge visit to Di’s family as another Oxford bomb strikes
Boxing Day. A good lay in till 7.45am before waking to a cup of tea. After yesterday morning’s disaster, I cook my own breakfast of fried egg, bread, bacon and mushrooms which I do well. Daniel has let the ducks out today and I spend the morning reading Pepys and playing with Daniel on his new computer games. Another nice lunch and the rest of the crackers. Together to the car and over to Cambridge to see Mr and Mrs Jackson and Chas and Chris and Sue for tea.
Further exchange of presents which had been saved until now to spread out the giving and receiving. The family to play with Daniel’s new Monopoly set and me to read a book of historical photographs of Hertfordshire. Chrisula braless in a new cardigan present and looking great whilst Sue and Charlie are scruffy and showing the passage of time which is a shame. Home and the kids to bed whilst we watch Rocky, a film about a down and out boxer trying to make good. The barometer rising tonight very high and I expect the weather to take a turn for the colder. News today of another bomb let off in Oxford Street and more shooting in the Lebanon where the French troops have pulled out of the Beirut refugee camps; the PLO and Yasser Arafat having now left the country. A continued relaxation today and gradually recovering from my stress of December and completing things for the end of month. Diana much improved and the kids all right apart from coughs of the season.