Eventually getting help to fight my chest infection whilst I get to work on BMMG standards issue as massive police presence being used to get even single rebel miners to work for government propaganda purposes
Up together at 8.00am and after breakfast and 9.00am Diana booked me an appointment at the Doctor for an hour later. The Doctor looked at my chest and listened to my symptoms and then prescribed antibiotics which I collected from Boots the chemist. I also bought a range of electrical fittings to equip my office with sufficient power sockets, collected some money from the bank and my City Connections reference book from the Post Office. Home to a morning installing the equipment and, later, making a number of BMMG telephone calls. I call back Mr Roy Porter of Export IT and agree to meet him for lunch on Friday week. Also agree to chair a press conference for Dr Bill Unsworth’s U-Microcomputers later this year. I phone Nick de Zoete and discuss a range of investment alternatives including Jaguar and 1988 Index Linked gilt edged. I telex ICL about an appointment with Rob Wilmott and ask Nigel Smith to write to Paddy Ashdown about the IBM/BT issue and also follow up on our request for a ministerial meeting.
Leslie tells me that Peter King has got Manchester to obtain my printer and I should be getting delivery shortly. I also arrange to meet Roger Britain for a finance meeting on Monday afternoon to discuss my financial support of my family. This all extends into the afternoon and I end up scanning the Prestel Stockbrokers data base and noting that the market has eased a few points today. News today that most of the Scheme Ports have voted to strike but the move is far from complete and the final scene will be apparent later in the week. More riot and violence in the picket lines with massive police presence being used to get even single rebel miners to work for government propaganda purposes. Salvage work begins on the sunken freight carrying the nuclear waste amongst disquiet from the National Union of Seamen about the lack of sufficient safety precautions. Eventually to bed tired from the antibiotics and hopeful that tomorrow will bring better health.