Long Hot Summer...
Long Hot Summer...

The illness catches up with me as the adrenalin runs out and I spend the day recovering and watching TV as £5m of Woburn silver is discovered and 2500 miners and their family march in Leeds and Scotland

A very trying and difficult day. Up to get the drinks after Diana is woken by an early morning feed, then breakfast and a bath to try to get myself going. Off to my 39 Gordon Road office to unpack and use my new Comart micro but soon suffering too much and back to bed for the rest of the day. I am still feeling hot with a dry throat and cough but the weather is also very hot and sunny with temperatures in the 80sdegF in my bedroom.

A headache prevents any work or reading but I watch the world bowls championship with a singles win for a New Zealender by ¼ of an inch with the scores on 20:20! In the test match rain prevents this morning’s play and in the afternoon the England batsmen are scuttled again. A lost and lamentable day and no real improvement by the end of it. Diana struggles on breast feeding Daniella with a sore nipple and Daniel goes swimming with his friends to the open air St Neots pool.

News today includes the finding of £5M worth of silver and family heirlooms from Woburn Abbey at a water pumping station at Eaton Socon, also another Miner’s rally of over 2000 in the centre of Leeds and nearly 500 with families march past the Bilston Glen colliery south of Edinburgh.