Day mostly spent on BMMG business before ‘Your Business’ photo session and cash negotiations to buy two Escorts as Thatcher wins her GCHQ court hearing and Richard Burton’s death is remembered
A long lay in and awake only after 8.00am. This followed an unsettled night. Breakfast of fruit juice, toast and cereal brought up by Diana and after a quick wash, shave and dress, to the office. In post by 9.30am and down to my Executel Diary and phone calls. Most time spent talking to potential BMMG recruits Hitech, LDR and Almarc and I think I shall see them all in the fold. Time also to talk to GEC Computers and UK ITO Chairman, Alan Frazer, and arrange a meeting for Wednesday and also to Ford Motor Car Dealers in Bury St Edmunds and St Neots to establish the best price for two Ford Escort 1300L, 5 door estates for cash.
Lunch back at the house and after the arrival of the ‘Your Business’ photographer, Tino, at the same time as a veritable army of three window cleaners with ladders, a merry hour being photographed in all situations – both river side gardens, the boat, the office, the car, the lounge. Late afternoon calls to finish today’s business and sort out the paperwork for my daily treasury deposits. This evening to watch the televised Olympic Games and nurse my returning cold. Then to bed feeling very hot. News today of the Appeal Court Judges decision on the GCHQ union ban – a predictable victory for Mrs Thatcher – but leave of appeal to the House of Lords is granted. Obituaries also today for the death of Richard Burton in Switzerland yesterday and restrained sadness of the decision to bury him in Switzerland rather than his home town in the valleys of Wales. A remembrance ceremony today in Hiroshima, Japan, of that fateful day when the first atomic bomb killed tens of thousands of Japanese. A dignified occasion echoed in small part by services of protest at US Air Force bases in Cambridgeshire. The weather tonight raining after a day of warm sunshine. A warm, wet, muggy evening to accompany my cold symptoms.