Debbie helping me
Debbie helping me

Combining a warm and showery family Saturday with packing up my office and passing it over to John Lamb after reading the 9-month Peat Marwick report before home to a seafood tea as England lose 2-0 to the Soviet Union at football

A slow start to the day, but eventually to have breakfast after getting, again, the morning drinks for the family. To the office and a good hour or two starting the process of cutting up and pasting in the group board minutes, taking Deborah to ‘help’ do the cutting. I met the Peat Marwick accountants there and gave them my slight alterations of fact, differing also with them on their recommendations on warranties that are usually asked of the vendor.

At 10.30am Diana returned from walking from St Neots and had finished her shopping and we left to see Grove House again and also show Peter Barker who had come in today to drop off some computers that had been demonstrated in the West Country on the previous day. Then home for morning coffee and to see England’s progress against the West Indies in this second televised one-day test series. Then off to St Neots to collect Daniel and drive off for our Saturday Happy Eater lunch. An afternoon and early evening back at the office, collecting the Peat Marwick 9 month survey of unaudited management accounts to March for further reading and checking. Then to clear out my entire office and pack up the statutory books, reference books, original documents, leases and all of my belongings for collection on Monday; and finally to phone John Lamb and announce that my office was now his. Home to a tea of prawns, strawberries and a doughnut washed down with copious amounts of tea and then an evening’s television again before late to bed; the Soviet Union having beaten England at soccer 2-0. Fine weather today with good warm sunshine and occasional showers.