A family outing on a sunny day to Bedford and then a lazy day watching televised Test cricket and then an aborted fishing trip due to Daniel’s sickness and insect bites for us both. Peter Robinson, the Unionist leader, is charged with four offences and now Ronald Reagan is undergoing urological tests as Thatcher leaves hospital with her arm in a sling! The government’s £15m loan to the Cornish Tin industry is too little too late, a West Ham/ Man United ferry football fight puts back the chances of England’s European football ban and Mugabe of Zimbabwe pronounces an all-out trade war with South Africa in retaliation for their spiteful response to the Commonwealth nations moves
A good night and woken by the morning tea and enjoyed sitting, drinking it and looking out on the river view, with the sun shining down. A shower before breakfast and then read the morning paper and reviewed a pretty thin post. The gardener had fed the doves and so was I out, bringing the car round as Diana got the girls ready for our trip to Bedford. The whole family together for the day and we enjoyed a morning drink and biscuit on arrival and then went our various ways.
Nothing of interest to me at Peacocks general auction and so spent my time buying a ribbon cassette for my printer and some fishing tackle, before I met the others for lunch at Debenhams. Home via Elm leisure after, and we stocked up on pool chemicals, we also stopped at Eaton Socon for our meat from the butchers. I watched the second day of the England vs New Zealand test match on the TV all afternoon, which was rather a lazy, but enjoyable thing to do, then after tea of lemon sole I went fishing with Daniel. Poor Dan, he got the shivers and a stomach pain and so I had to bring him back, but returned to catch a decent chub with our new rod. Home, much bitten by insects, at dusk and just enough light to get the ducks fed and put away before locking up the house. The Ulster MP, Peter Robinson, has been charged on four counts, after leading the foray into the Republic on Wednesday night. President Reagan is going into hospital tomorrow for tests of a urological nature and the White House public relations machine is playing down its significance. Thatcher also left hospital today with her right hand strung up in a sling. The government is arranging a £15M loan to preserve the Cornish Tin Mines, after much delay and prevaricating. The North Sea ferry riot yesterday, where West Ham and Man Utd fans had knife and bottle fights, may well have put back Britain’s return to European football, when it seemed the problem of football hooliganism was coming under control. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has said his country is in an all-out trade war with South Africa. To bed very tired and resolved to use the time tomorrow a little more productively.