I chaired a delegation to see Ken Baker, the IT minister,  this month
I chaired a delegation to see Ken Baker, the IT minister, this month

Tending Ducks and varnishing The Lady as we then have some nice trips aboard as I manage Comart Group problems and arrange the BMMG Minister’s meeting with Kenneth Baker as the month is the hottest July since 1659 as Daniel passes his Kimbolton entrance exam. Thatcher was weaving her own brand of extremism and disharmony by cutting the NHS health service budgets and trying to re-introduce capital punishment, the British Airways helicopter crash within two miles of the Scilly Islands killing 30 and the French suffer a Turkish bomb and typhoons

This was a very hot month, breaking records with 86.6degF in Manchester and 91degF in Liphook, Hampshire. Apart from my business and industry priorities, my personal priorities were very much completing a new duck house and looking after my ducks and ducklings with Daniel, stripping and varnishing The Lady with four coats of varnish and spending some leisure time enjoying myself with projects on what proved to be a very hot and sunny month of July. We got off on the Lady several times including one long cruise on The Great Ouse and the family enjoyed it and Daniel passed his Kimbolton School entrance examination. I had lost weight from over 14st to 13st 5lbs. Some research concerning the old St Neots bridge after it was demolished fifteen years ago and the regret that this old bridge was as interesting as Great Barford and St Ives in its time. A nice time with the girls at Little Paxton fete. I purchased a print of ‘Disiderada’ which Debbie was impressed with as much as I.  The Byte Shop management had an overhaul as I fired Bob Robinson the London Manager, an induction meeting with Russ Wilmott of Southampton and the post of Managing Director created and given to Peter King, Xitan was reformed and re-equipped and Comart’s growth problems were all quite challenging. Preparations were being made for the BMMG meeting on the 20th July with Kenneth Baker with many radio and magazine interviews to do after a very successful meeting with my delegation. A meeting with NEDO officers over component tariffs. Personal Reviews for June and Derrick Morgan and a meeting with Wyse Technology over from the States in a month where June’s father collapsed with a stroke and died. We approached Barclays Bank for £1m needed later in the year and they had to refer us to their Merchant bank as they were out of their depth. “Torch” were taken over by GEC following a meeting between Peter Vlienland-Body and Lord Weinstock. For 75% of the company they paid £2-3M and bought out Newmarket Capital. They (Martin and Peter) are thus back in control with their Marketing and Operations Directors defeated. We won our employment tribunal against Ashley Leggat after refusing a £700 settlement. Lady Diana was a wow in Canada, Thatcher was weaving her own brand of extremism and disharmony by cutting the NHS health service budgets and trying to re-introduce capital punishment but at least the latter was lost in Parliament.. Speaker Thomas made a Viscount . the British Airways helicopter crash within two miles of the Scilly Islands with 27 of the 30 missing bodies on board.. Gerry Adams, former leader of the Belfast IRA, creates a storm by visiting the House of Commons, now he is an M.P . The pound is thankfully falling on the foreign exchanges against the dollar because of speculation that US interest rates are due to rise.  A Turkish bomb blast at the check-in at Orly Airport in France. A typhoon in the French Bordeaux and Dordogne districts