Gardening and then setting up my new office in Gordon Road before a family lunch and further duck hunt as the Dock strike ends, isolating the Miners
Diana gets the drinks this morning and gets much further into her hold routines the further the day goes on. A toast, cereal and fruit juice breakfast and quick wash, shave and shower before we go out to the garden to finish mowing the front lawn. As Paul helps Daniel do this, I dead head the roses. The steps I took yesterday evening to hoe in the manure that had been laying on the flower beds had certainly made the atmosphere sweeter. We let the ducks out and only got 8 eggs and then go to 39 Gordon Road to clear the lounge for an office. First we disassemble the corner bench seat in the breakfast room and then take through the settee, the armchair and the standard lamp.
Home for fizzy orange drinks and then the whole family together to St Neots for some shopping. I purchase a set of bottles of shampoo, polish and window cleaner for the car and also a 2 1/5 inch, two lever, mortice lock for my new office. Then all off to The Happy Eater for lunch and we appreciate the air conditioning on a hot and sunny day. Then after to collect a few papers from Little End Road before home to fit the new lock, which took some time, effort and trouble, but was a good job when done. Then to rest and take tea and after to get Daniels help to take across my small desk and two filing trolleys before going off in search of the ducks.
We find the thirteenth duck sitting on another nest full of eggs on the island, which we destroy and get her home with the rest. News tonight of an amnesty promise on political prisoners by Polish Premier General Jaruzelski, which amounts to some 650 persons. Also the dock strike ends at midnight after two weeks, which puts the limelight back onto the miners dispute. In Oslo David Moorcroft won the dream mile in a return of his old form. A scare today as Boots remove Sunsilk Shampoo from the shelves as an animal rights group have claimed that they have put bleach in a number of bottles. Also Lancashire Cricket Team have an easy win over Warwickshire in the cricket cup final. Up a little late catching up with my journal and then to bed.