Busy day of financial planning but I find time to teach Debbie some more writing as the Pit Deputies strike is called off as miners’ talks progress and French president Mitterrand addresses both houses of Parliament
A sound sleep then awake to morning tea and The Financial Times. Breakfast of melon and toast before across to my office. Only one item of mail from the Prestel Building Society/Banking Service Homelink which fitted in to my morning plans. £210,000 was coming back from treasury deposit today and I calculated the advantages of putting sections of it into higher interest rate building society deposit accounts. I phoned Barclays, the Abbey National and Gateway and found a very large differential of 2/3%. Interest rates on the money markets are falling so we put this money on overnight deposit and set off for St Neots to put £5,000 each into the latest 29th issue of savings certificates and £25,000 each into new joint deposit accounts with the Abbey and Gateway.
Off then to The Little Chef for lunch and then home to key in details of our latest investment details and print out a new investment summary before driving Diana off to collect her Escort which had finished its 1000 mile service. Tea with the children and then time to teach Debbie a few more words of writing. News today of the NACODS strike being called off and of further talks tomorrow between the NCB and the NUM. British aid is announced for Ethiopia; but still it is far from enough. The Jaguar workers vote to strike for more wages to bring the denationalisation honeymoon to an end. A state visit from President Mitterrand of France leads to a speech in French to both houses of parliament in Westminster. Two holiday companies collapse leaving 10,000 holiday makers in Greece and Spain. The weather continues changeable with heavy rain and cooler temperatures.