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Collecting Daniel after school and making Cambridge visit to study and buy history and wild bird books, Samuel Pepys’s diaries and then to watch by best ever film, ‘Sting’ on television as Diana’s figure grows and Torville and Dean win this last amateur World Championship in Ice Dance
A day of heavy overnight rain and stormy showers. Not so cold as of late but windy and wet. Up earlier than normal for a Saturday and, after Daniel leaves for school, we set off for Cambridge and park the car. Together to look in a couple of department stores and have a coffee in the Wimpy Bar before going our individual ways. I, to Heffers bookshop after buying some frozen cockles and prawns in the market square. I find the English History section for 1660-1745 and am pleased to see the variety of works for the period but can only buy a pamphlet on the Earl of Clarendon as his ‘History’ is not available. I do get, however, the next two Samuel Pepys journals 1665 and 1666 and resolve to read more of the 1664 version when I get back.
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Day preparing for the Comart Board meeting and getting three dental fillings whilst our builders finish off at 6 Willow Close as Di choses a new Hoover 1100 washing machine, Sarah Tidsdall is jailed for leaking Cruise deployment details and Scargill leads a long funeral cortege for miner dying in strike
On time to the office and deal with the morning post after approving the last payroll claims. Completed the personnel report and managed to obtain and circulate all other Board reports by lunchtime and bind them for ease of use and reading. After lunch home to see Diana and hear, over a cup of tea, of the problems of getting our old washing machine repaired. Off to St Neots and left Diana to look around the electrical shops whilst I went by appointment to the dentist for three fillings.
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Key Technical Director meeting before updating group Statutory Registers and Minute Books and then pleased to read my Computer Weekly article as EEC convenes a Foreign Ministers’ meeting and Thatcher’s cabinet thankfully stops short of agreeing her proposed EEC sanctions
Up early and after breakfast to the office for a full day’s work without formal meetings. During the day to achieve a good deal of progress as a result. I see Ian Nickson and impress upon him the need to curb the excessive spending and be more conscious of restraining costs to budgeted levels. Also reemphasise my view that; for us to consider taking on an expensive software engineer, settling the agency fees and removal expenses; he must be invited back for a second visit to St Neots.
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Personnel day appointing Sales Secretary, approving Byte Shop managers pay packages and then briefing colleagues on John’s appointment when DTI called to confirm grants for the BMMG LAN standard initiative and PA tell me that Kode are putting a takeover offer in the post this week as Thatcher’s actions at the Brussels Summit are universally credited with sabotaging agreement by her intransigence but the Miners’ picketing gains support.
Up early and well prepared to the office to start the day. This morning to debrief June and John on the events of the last two days and discuss my plans to put John in charge of Comart Computers Limited and hear his considered reaction to the idea. Then to see David Fear and complete Netta’s review and promotion to Sales Office Administrator. The morning and lunchtime mails both produce their shares of orders and problems before I receive a phone call from the DTI confirming that they will support the BMMG plan on local area network standards up to a maximum of 50% of funding.