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Xitan Review Meeting in Southampton and then back to Comart before home to be upset with Daniel over his borrowing and school work
Early to rise and St Neots Station to catch the train for London. In Stevenage to be joined by John Lamb and on to Kings Cross Station. Across town by tube and then the 8.45am slow train to Southampton where by taxi on to Xitan. There to chair the Xitan Review Meeting and a good brief meeting with sales rising and assets under control.
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Office day on Comart Company plans concluding with the need for large investments for future products as the EEC talks fail and agricultural subsidies continue
Early to the office and the early part of the day sorting out my papers of yesterday and today and actioning the items arising. Then to have individual meetings with John and Derek reviewing the problems and priorities of Marketing and Purchasing respectively. After lunch to make arrangements for a meeting later today to review the conclusions of our visits to Comdex and chase up visit reports in preparation.
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Milder day working at home with a developing cold whilst Debbie accompanies Daniel in the dark to tend the ducks as the Lebanese conflict escalates and Thatcheris obdurate in Europe
I wake up today feeling flushed and weak with a fair headache and therefore decide to stay at home in bed. A slow day with alternate reading and rest but I take the opportunity to write to my parents at long last and also make a reply to the Rouge Dragon of the College of Arms. Two brief calls to the office where nothing is too urgent to wait, but I do make a call to my auditor, Roger Brittain, about share valuation and the Xitan audit report. We see an increased value of Comart Shares for the purposes of the Profit Sharing Scheme.
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A day reading, relaxing, cooking and working with the ducks and The Lady as the NGA dispute drags on and the Syrians shoot down two US planes over the Lebanon
Although family early awake, a good lay in bed reading. Samuel Pepys, 1662, before breakfast; and the Sunday Times afterwards. A good cooked breakfast of fried egg, bread, mushrooms and bacon reminds me that my weight has risen again from 12st 7lb to nearly 13st and I resolve that I will take eating easy until Christmas and then try to get my weight back again. The paper full of press comment and views on the NGA dispute and the way in which the Fleet Street proprietors did not cooperate in the wake of the London industrial action.
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Tiredness after a late night forces me to rest and then prioritise family affairs as the UDR are questioned over Irish atrocities as the evening turned very cold and frost
A lay in this morning after the late night but I still spent the day a little tired and irritable. Whilst resting, to read the morning paper and a few others from my briefcase. Breakfast and then to wash and dress quickly so as to let the ducks out after ten. Next to do the months accounts and draw the cheque for an anxious Diana before off to St Neots to collect Daniel from our rendezvous and take him off to our normal Saturday lunch at the Happy Eater.