Office and family day organising important meetings and playing computer games with Daniel and Gary as the Yorkshire Miners fight on and Republicans resume their hunger strike on a cold, wet and breezy day
Up on time and, after reading today’s Financial Times, down to a slimming breakfast of a single slice of toast and fruit juice. Then a swift bath, hair wash and shave and dressed in time for a timely start at the office. A busy morning initiating and receiving calls on a range of subjects. Telephone press interviews with Computing (twice) and Computer Weekly and meetings arranged with the British Stockholm Trade Representative, Mike East of MEPR, and the Founder and Chief Executive of ACT Computers. I decide to reinvest my £210K cash on a month fixed interest treasury deposit to maximise interest at 10 3/10 % and send off the application forms for a £40K business expansion scheme investment in a month’s time. Nice slimming lunch of salad and pears and then back to the office to start my typing. I seem to have a wide range of necessary correspondence and only manage a fraction of the whole before Daniel arrives home with his friend Gary for tea. A pleasant evening as the Space Captain of their Elite game, trading successfully between a rich agricultural and medium industrial economy, swapping food and raw materials for computers and machinery.
News tonight of three hours of talks between McGregor and the TUC to no avail. More incidents involving Yorkshire miners, with reins of missiles being met with baton charges. The NACODS Pit Deputy ballot commences with the necessary 2/3rds majority for a strike forecast. In New York, the most militant American leader for several administrations and retired actor – Ronald Reagan – mouths insincere words of reconciliation with the Russians in election year; and in Northern Ireland, the Loyalist prisoners resume their hunger strike as four of their number are moved into the company of Republicans. The weather today cool, breezy and wet, but the gardener progresses between showers.