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Day working on the sale of Comart, my own finances and Microcomputer Industry affairs as 40 striking miners are held in Scotland
Up at 8.00am and to personally prepare the morning drinks and serve them in bed to the family together. Then the kids had prepared the breakfast and we all ate as usual. To the office at Grove House for 9.15am and to retrieve my water jug and work out my priorities. Then phone calls on Comart, BMMG and personal business at last ordering my new phone and answering machine. I also touch base with Nigel Smith, now returned from holiday, and make arrangements for tomorrow’s dinner meeting prior to the BMMG Council Meeting the following day. Then by ‘phone arrangement’ off quickly to see Roger Brittain before lunch, and, over an hour or so, to decide in outline how to divide up the £2 ½ M investment portfolio.
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Time in my new Gordon Road office and then outside working on The Lady on a warm and sunny day before relaxing with some TV sport as the government tries to justify its actions
A warm and sunny day with some cloudy periods and threatening to shower but didn’t. A reasonable lay in then up for my first fried breakfast for a few weeks. Fried egg, bacon, mushrooms and bread and it was lovely. Then to quickly dress, finish reading The Sunday Times, and let the ducks out. One duck is definitely broody and is sitting on the two cracked eggs we left in the hutch. We are now considering getting some chicks for her. Then to tackle The Lady and to sand down and varnish the areas I had previously stripped. But not enough stamina to do more, and somewhat daunted by the need to wash down the varnish and brush the roof to put on a number of coats.
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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.
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Hot and Sunny office day following up on financial and company disposal plans and hearing of Kode’s EGM which approved the takeover before an evening working in the garden with Daniel and his friend Paul as the Dock strike seems to be resolved.
The normal morning routine then to the office for 9.45 in time for coffee. No further computer magazines with any coverage and no further journalists phone calls. I just have time to dictate a variety of correspondence before Brian George and John Vernon of Barclays Bank arrive. Brian is the local St Neots Branch Manager and John the Cambridge Manager of the investment department. They are keen to be taking instructions on the care of my £1.8M cash and even keener to receive the money by wired transfer next Friday and hence consolidate it into the branch’s end of month figures!