Relaxing Sunday with the ducks, the family and the TV as the Bishops call for Miners boss McGregor to conciliate and the latest Spanish stabbing of British Holidaymakers
A fair lay in reading The Sunday Times, rising briefly to have a subdued but fried breakfast. Eventually I get up, washed and dressed after 11.20am. I let the ducks out in the sunshine but, as I cleared out the duck hutch, the sky clouded over and it started to rain throughout the afternoon. Not able to wash the car, I happily spent the rest of the day with Daniel and his friends playing Elite. Elite is a BBC micro game of a new generation, allowing the players to play the role of a trader/fighter, travelling between planets and fighting off pirates, whilst actively trading in good merchandise and bad. Later this evening, Diana and I watched a tearful television film called ‘The Champ’ and after, the news of today’s events. More controversy over the Bishop of Durham’s call for Ian McGregor as he is supported by many other clerics, but criticised by a few. A huge fuss as a Libyan Diplomat kills a sheep outside his suburban London home. The saddest news of another British tourist stabbed to death by bag-snatching robbers in Spain; the third this month. The Greenham Common women celebrate three years of protest with continental support, and a baby Pilot Whale refuses to leave Bournemouth harbour.