Valentines Day: Successful day chairing the Export IT conference to much acclaim and then home to join family watching Torville and Dean win the gold medal as Andropov is buried and two beastly attacks back home on this foggy and frosty day

Up early after a restless night and quickly to prepare myself and vacate my room. Not a great deal of response from my microcomputer speakers as they fail to turn up for breakfast but they all arrive in good time and I find them in the lecture theatre preparing their notes. An impressively successful day as we win complements for the speeches and information we provide. The event is the gathering in London of the commercial officers from British Commercial Attaché’s throughout the world and our chance to tell them of the potential of British Micros. I also win some generous comments on my handling of the morning, putting across an amazing degree of information. In return I received a bound copy of market reports from each delegates territory which is invaluable. We did not mark Valentines Day in any particualr way..

Home tired but satisfied to find the family still up and watching the televised final of the Winter Olympic games ice dance championship. Torville and Dean win the gold and with it the ultimate accolade of straight 6’s for artistic expression. In Moscow Andropov is buried to the mourning tones of the international funeral anthem and Chirenko squeezes quick ½ hour meetings with Margaret Thatcher and US Secretary of State Vance. A terrible story today of two beastly attacks. The first on a middle aged couple sadistically beaten up by frustrated robbers. In a macabre act, the elderly man had his big toe sawn off and forced into his mouth. What a high and low day for Britain in this second month of 1984. The weather continues foggy and frosty.