Commissioning my Executel after a wakeful night and liaising with BMMG, EXPORT IT and NEDO to accept representative responsibilities as the Nottinghamshire Miners barricade their offices in the Miners’ Strike
Up early after a restless night and wakeful until Diana feeds the baby and makes the drinks. Breakfast with the family and then off to Gordon Road to continue my loading of the Executel. By lunchtime most of the addresses loaded and starting to load the appointments. Back home for lunch to find Diana with her second party of social visitors for the morning, having not been able to complete Daniella’s feed nor get out to shop for food. Out, therefore, to The Happy Eater for a family lunch at my providing before home to continue dropping off the children in St Neots to do their shopping.
The afternoon and evening completing my office preparations, ending the day with papers fully filed, and Executel up to date. Phone calls to BMMG Owles Hall, Nigel Smith checking priorities; to June and Lesley of Comart to check messages and to EXPORT IT and NEDO. The former has just got confirmation of continued DTI funding, and the latter office EDC is inviting me to join a cross-industry steering committee. An evening’s chat with Carlton Lowe and David Fear. The Comart Dealer Conference went well but sales are still being outstripped by production. News tonight of the Nottingham miners turning their HQ into a fortress, of yet another train crash – this time in the North East, of British Nuclear Fuels to be prosecuted by the Director of Public Prosecutions, and in France, of Mrs Corinne Parpalaix being awarded custody of sperm deposited by her late husband after his death. News also of Britain’s first gymnastic gold medal in the small bore shooting competition.