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Comart’s new business plan before to London for meeting with CCTA to win support for restraining IBM then back home to Diana and national news of the NGA strike as Nuclear weapons opposition gathers pace
First to meet John Lamb and Ian Nickson to agree the mutual responsibilities in relation to writing Comart’s new business plan. Then to clear the mail and see the latest press cuttings on our group progress before sitting down with Peter King to discuss all manner of Byte Shop business and also his review. This review is made the more difficult by complex implications of relative Byte Shop and Comart profitability and the effect of Head Office changes on his Management Incentive Plan. Off in a hurry by car and train to London to meet the CCTA Deputy Director and Head of Technical Services, Ron Ballard.
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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.
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Long lazy day reading and coping with our family coughs and colds before buying a Christmas Tree and then home to watch ‘The Day After’ all about the dangers of nuclear war as the Geneva talks to avoid this in real life struggle
A long and lazy lay in, reading Times and Economist and catching up on home and overseas news. Time out for a breakfast of toast, marmalade and apple juice and then back to bed, feeling cold and suffering from a cold. Later to get up and phone David Fear to find out about his trip to Belgium and cheer him up.
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Industry assessments in the wake of IBM’s market entry on a wild, windy and wet day before collecting Daniel from the arms of a girl at his school disco as the NGA dispute flares up and the latest Women’s Liberation Bill is lost in Parliament
A most wild and windy day with intermittent rain lashing down as well. No hope of the ducks being properly attended to. Early to the office and a deal of work undertaken of all sorts of papers, meetings and phone calls. Unfortunately, however, most service industry figures that I needed to contact over my UK computer industry plans were not in today.
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Grumpy day in the office correcting staff laxity before I start the anti-IBM campaign and the Russians call off the strategic arms limitation talks in Geneva
Up early and to the office, telling off three employees for lateness and June for not securing the reception area. Also to lecture her for not supporting me as well as I needed to bring the company round. I have decided that firmness will be the order of the day from now on as next year will be a tough challenge and 8.30-5.00pm will be no good.