Emptying Grove House of my papers and then a family trip to St Neots riverside park as the Miners’ and Dockworkers’ strike negotiations and the Falklands sovereignty talks break down and Britain has our largest earthquake for 100 years
Another lay in but up at 8.00am to make the drinks and then Diana made the breakfast and I got washed and dressed for work. To Grove House in time for coffee and then a mammoth effort to empty out one cabinet to pass to Derek Weatherby and to sort all paperwork into personal, BMMG and Comart papers. Later on John Lamb arrives and brings some new computer journals including front page coverage of our news in Microscope by Guy Kewney but, surprisingly, no mention in Computer Weekly at all. A meeting with Derek Weatherby to insist on the completion of the group’s budgets before the handover, then off to lunch with John Lamb to discuss the business and my own future microcomputer needs.
After, home to wait until Daniel, Diana and Daniella returned from their trip out and then to take Daniel and his friend Paul to St Neots Riverside Park. After a drink and ice cream, we played another round of pitch and put with Paul winning on the handicap. After tea, television with Daniel, then to put the ducks away and to bed.
News today of the breakdown in the national negotiations in both the miners and the docks strike; but late news of Dover being opened to all traffic from 9.00pm with three container vessels sailing. In North Wales, Britain’s largest earthquake for 100 years sent tremors across the Midlands and North, but only slight damage to buildings and no injuries. Another opinion poll, this time for tomorrow’s Guardian newspaper, shows the popularity of the government falling yet again. The talks with the Argentines over the Falklands also break down over the issue of discussing sovereignty.