A better day and outing to St Ives but then, after finding little of interest in the auction viewing, on to brave the traffic congestion through Biggleswade to get to Jordons at Holme Mills where we bought layers pellets for the ducks and their wheat flakes for us and then some success fishing until hearing of the news about HM The Queen having a heart check-up. US President Reagan also came through his tests okay as the rival Ulster sectarians cause security forces and a bank siege in Finland ends up badly
A good night and more timely start to the day, as Diana brings morning tea at closer to 7.00am again. Showered and then breakfast, before opening up and going out to feed the doves, who seem to be OK these days. Then a check of the pool, adding chlorine pills, and we then all get into the Jaguar again for a trip to St Ives this time. Coffee break at Tooks, the baker, though I settle for a glass of milk! Then a look round the Ekins auction viewings, but I do not find very much. We then rush over to Biggleswade to get to Holme Mills before they closed at midday.
A long, but pleasant drive, though the congestion and one-way system in Biggleswade town centre nearly made me late. Two bags of layers pellets for the ducks was my purchase and Di got two large bags of Jordan’s wheat flakes, as we had run out. Back home and much of the afternoon watching England struggle in the cricket, though I did manage to put our new Speed maps in my office. Tea of bread, honey and ice cream, then, Daniel not wanting to come, I went fishing on my own in the dinghy and caught a lot of dace, a rudd and the largest of three chub yet. The Queen has had hospital tests on her heart at the National Heart Hospital. A rumour was confirmed by a Palace spokesman, who said that the tests were ‘routine’. She still launched and named an oil rig today, ‘Mr Mac’. US President Reagan also claimed to have come through ‘a routine check-up’ on his urinary tract. The Northern Ireland security forces were involved in limiting overnight violence by both extremes of demonstrators and have now become the ‘piggy-in-the-middle’. A bank siege in Finland came to a tragic end yesterday, as a hostage and the robber were blown up after the police opened fire and the car exploded.