Another day overshadowed with Diana’s breast crisis but her Mum Norma and the midwife and Doctor are all at hand; as Kode shares and Sterling fall and Thatcher courts more aggravation with further denationalisation
Another slow start but eventually prepared the drinks and gathered the family together. Our (by now) normal routine for breakfast with Daniel helping tremendously with Deborah and then I took her to school. Comments from other children and their mums about our picture in The Trader yesterday. Home to collect the duck eggs and do the washing up and Norma arrives to help again. Diana’s breast is less painful but still lumpy and sore and the midwife is unhappy about Diana not taking the dehydration tablets. Off to Grove House and an hour’s press interview for a personal profile in Electronic Times and a further hours interview with Michel, the latest choice for Comart’s French operation. Both very satisfactory and so back home to find Diana more uncomfortable and Daniel arriving home.
I prepare two salads which Daniel and I eat then try to attend Diana and help all afternoon. More washing up. The midwife returns, phones Dr Wright who returns in late afternoon prescribing antibiotics and insisting that the dehydration pill be taken. I go off to get the antibiotic prescription and also bring back fried fish, chicken, beef burgers, sausages and chips for a simple tea. A tense evening with Diana upset by her problem and the lumps being more noticeable. We use the breast pump to extract and save as much milk as possible and then Di takes the first pill with tears. Di has an early night with the baby quiet and I read, watch the news and start to study the investment markets more closely.
Kode shares lost 20p yesterday as the stock exchange falls sharply – a trend which continues. The pound drops again to nearly $1.30 and record numbers of American tourists throng London. Two Nigerian diplomats were expelled from London and must leave within the next week over the Dikko kidnapping and the Foreign Secretary also said that it would be ‘inappropriate’ for the High Commissioner to return here. The latest target for denationalisation is National Bus Company and the government stands the chance of adding to the industrial fuel of unrest. The weather today included showers, but the ground is still bone dry.