A better night of sleep and day of recovery but still no serious work accomplished but out of bed and making progress as Maxwell goads printers into a Scottish dispute, a large Land Rover’s owners rally opposes their US takeover and it is learnt that Olof Palme was assassinated with special ammunition
Slept well and started my day as usual. Di offered me a full fried breakfast, but I stayed with my porridge as usual. The morning in bed, reading the Observer paper, except for a while where I beat Daniel at Chinese Whist. He is getting more interested in more adult distractions. Rose before lunch at Diana’s request and joined the family at the dinner table for well-cooked roast beef, that could have been carved a little thinner, but was otherwise fine.
Then to get washed and shaved and up for the rest of the day. Television this afternoon and a succession of sports programmes. Poor Spurs were beating Liverpool 1-0, but lost 2-1 in the end. Then skiing and volleyball, before tea of hot cross buns. This evening, Diana put on another video and we watched it with pleasure. Quite an uneventful day and I hope that I shall be more able to do some desk work tomorrow. My urinary tract infection seems to be clear now, but this chest infection is very resistant and I hope I can get rid of the cough. News today is of the special kind of bullet used for the assassination of Olof Palme. It seems a specially tipped bullet was used, capable of piercing a bullet-proof vest. It seems a professional job. Robert Maxwell has engineered a dispute with his Glasgow workers, according to them, and announced that up to 40% of the jobs will have to go on the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, because of inability to agree publication there of the Irish edition of the Daily Mirror. A six year old girl is missing in Northamptonshire and several hundred volunteers are helping in the search. There was a large Land Rover owner’s rally today to protest against the proposed sale of the company to the Americans. This follows the employees own demonstration. A political demonstration in London also today, as 8,000 people marched through town to launch a campaign for reinstatement of 500 men sacked in the miners’ strike. Weather forecasts are of the weather breaking from this cold spell, at long last, on Tuesday/Wednesday this week.