Family day shopping and sharing lunch, as Microsoft takes exception to my blocking of their LAN and taxi driver David Wilkie is killed by blocks thrown by two miners
Up to the normal routine this morning - tea, paper, breakfast, doves, ducks and office! Pleased to find my computer keyboard repaired and returned outside my office by Comart, though they also left an offering of a broken fluorescent tube to replace as well. I made one or two calls to order some logs for our open fire and also to check with the local motor dealers to see how much we could expect for Diana’s 1981 metro. Answer, £2000 to other motorists, but perhaps only £1400 to a motor dealer. At 11.00am I collected Di and we went to St Neots shopping, parking in the atrocious Co-op car park – full of pit holes and muddy water. We filled a large trolley with weekly provisions. To Sketchley to drop off my brown suit to clean, to Eastern Electricity to buy a new fluorescent tube (4ft/30 watt), a food whisk and a new vacuum cleaner and be frustrated by the Board’s frightful paperwork, which keeps clients waiting every time. Off by car to The Little Chef for our lunch, the waiter recognising us and serving our normal waist preserver and prawn salad. Di recognises the supervisor too – it was his Ford Capri that she backed into a week ago! Home after and to the office.
I connected up the console keyboard, which worked fine, and started to type in my Industry Strategy Paper, which will be a long process. Before dark Diana called me back for a cup of tea and I then went through my dove and duck routine again. I will be pleased when summer comes and the days are longer. To the lounge and televised snooker, then I chat to Debbie and Daniel before tea, and wrestle Daniel afterwards, literally with one hand behind my back. This morning Di met our Architect and decided on a course of action for altering our kitchen to extend the house. I received a letter from Microsoft, who take exception to the BMMG LAN initiative; but I shall answer it with interest. Last night Freda phoned, not having received my letter and is hopeful of visiting us around Christmas. We shall see! News today of a tragedy in Wales as a concrete post is tipped off a motorway parapet onto a working miners police convoy. It killed the miners taxi driver; an act that is condemned by all. Two South Wales miners have been charged for the murder of taxi driver David Wilkie but how likely such incidents are, with society divided by this government’s policies. Keith Joseph is pelted with eggs at a university campus after his university grant announcement. Only a few miners return to work today and Arthur Scargill knows of no TUC initiative