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A frustrating Comart Review Meeting in a smoky room with a cold coming on as Thatcher is still stubbornly refusing to treat with the GCHQ unions and Middle East tension rises with Iran/Iraq threatening each other over oil tankers in the Gulf.
A slow start as I read a number of reports in bed this morning. Eventually to rise for breakfast and after a quick wash and shave just in time to the office to finish preparation for today’s Comart Review Meeting. A more modest stock pool addition agreed with Ian Nickson for development (that would surely have been as large as I would have allowed) and also a sharply cut back budget of development expenditure agreed. The meeting itself was a great frustration. My organisation succeeded in getting the overhead projector lost and then smashed and finally broke both replacement bulbs. All this after I had prepared slides to make the meeting flow efficiently. Nevertheless the meeting was a good one with the principal missions and strategies understood for the CCL budget plans to proceed.
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Customer meetings and Comart Board meeting preparations on a cold and very frosty day as the workmen build my new wall whilst the Italians vacate Beirut and the French lorry drivers are on strike again
Early to the office on another very cold day. The frost deposit this morning was as thick as any other recent day. The heating was having difficulty again in warming the office on this frosty meeting. Attendance and timekeeping were much better today than a week ago. I spend the first half hour today dropping my car off at the garage to have the central door locking and speedometer mended. Then a quick look at the mail and time to prepare a few papers before three Directors from Plume Computer Services arrived to discuss their solvency.
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Leisurely morning and then visit to my mum in hospital after her operation before an evening preparing for a Comart Board meeting
Up at a reasonable time for a Sunday and surprised the family by getting them all a morning drink for the first time in many months. Diana, coffee; Deborah, warm black-current juice; and Daniel and I tea. The idea was to save Di’s legs that are increasingly troubled with varicose veins. After, a superb fried breakfast – my Sunday treat – and then back to bed for an hour or two to read the Sunday Times. Up at 10.00 and half an hour of washing, shaving and hair shampoo before out in the crisp air to let out the ducks – seven eggs today. A cold car shampoo, rinse and leathering and, after a coffee, little time to read my computer journals before getting ready for an early lunch of chicken and Liebfraumilch wine. This afternoon we drove over to my mother in ward F4 of the West Suffolk Hospital at Bury St Edmunds.
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Leisurely family day, reading and shopping as Debbie takes a liking to prawns and Daniel is too ill for school
A long lay in this morning as usual for a Saturday and back to bed after breakfast as well. Today, we went off to St Neots with Diana and Debbie, leaving Daniel ill in bed. There to do a range of shopping for food, furniture and a fine watercolour painting of a heron by Alan Fairbrass for £40. At the St Neots Library, I take out a number of local history books on St Neots Urban District Council, Buckden Palace, The Holme Church Boat and other things. Home, after our normal trip to The Happy Eater for lunch. Arrived just in time to see England beat Ireland 12-9 in a Rugby Union International on the television. I speak to Dad today and arrange for us to go over to see Mum tomorrow afternoon which will be fine. I discuss with Daniel and Di yesterday the rising possibility that I could sell Comart for £3M; but they are interestingly negative.