Day seeing the sights of London with the family; Petticoat lane; Trafalgar square and the Natural History and Science Museums before home to work for the evening. 100 dead in Turkish earthquake as Grenadian rumblings continue with 740 Cuban agitators accounted for
We lay in reading The Sunday Times before packing and making our way down for breakfast. Daniel and Debbie are quite well mannered over the meal and we leave the room and I pay the bill. It cost above £250 but was considered a good comfort. Off by taxi to Petticoat Lane and we enjoy the fast ride on another cold but fine morning. I leave the others for an hour and walk in a happy but overbearing throng of people which is almost too dense to allow the street marketeers to trade. I try jellied eel for the first time from a stallholder whose family have been in the business for over 100 years but am not too keen, wishing I had chosen cockles and prawns.
Then a bus ride to Trafalgar Square, lunch of hamburgers at McDonalds and a merry time feeding the thousands of pigeons that tamely throng the square. Off by No9 Bus again to Kensington and onward by foot to the Natural History and Science Museums. In the first a good study of dinosaur skeletons and in the second to see historic cars and machines to please Daniel. Back to Oxford Street by bus and after some chocolate, home by car. Then by myself to the office to order my papers for tomorrow when I am due in London again on business.
News today of a great earthquake in Turkey with above 1000 dead and six villages flattened. In Grenada, all Cubans are now accounted for and criticism that the US had exaggerated their number with the remaining resistance coming from Grenadian troops. 640 Cubans were captured and above 100 more killed or wounded. Mrs Thatcher said today that the release of countries from Communist governments did not alone justify US intervention. The Governor-General announced that he will be appointing an interim administration of highly regarded people as a preliminary to a return to the democratic process.