Preparing The Lady for a cruise
Preparing The Lady for a cruise

Family shopping trip to Cambridge after reading on a glorious day and back to wash and scrub The Lady as the NUM dispute is in the news

 

A lay in on another glorious sunny day. Soon the sun becomes strong and, the air humid, makes for a listless start to the day. Nevertheless, after breakfast, I let the ducks out, finished reading todays Economist and Financial Times and made the coffee. Then to the car and St Neots for a few bits of shopping. A half pound of prawns and some cable and a new-style socket to extend my office phone. Then, with the family, off to The Happy Eater for our Saturday lunch and after, by the back way, to Cambridge and to park in Lion Yard. We split up to rendezvous at 4.00pm and I try in vain to find another chargeable battery for the cine-camera.

I do have an interesting time, however, catching up with computer journals in the reference library. Back to my prawn tea and to have fun feeding next door cats though they didn’t seem to eat a lot. After, to set about The Lady as I wash and scrub down the outside ready for a day trip tomorrow. This takes me to dusk and, after a shower and a television film on General Patton, rather late to bed. News tonight of the end of the miner’s occupation of the giant cranes at Port Talbot. A Labour MP, Clive Soley, was arrested selling NUM newspapers in a bizarre action and The Sunday Times print workers stop work over articles attacking the NUM asking for an NUM right of reply.