A lay in and large English breakfast to enjoy before a shower and return to some healthy normality at last with ducks and doves being attended and doing well before securing our oak bedroom suite from the auction and counselling Daniel and Steve on how best to preserve Aquabean. Thatcher under pressure from security worries and the funeral today of Olof Palme after his wicked assassination with more South African shootings of demonstrators but the biggest news was the swift collapse of The Hotel New World in Singapore
Slept well, but lay in bed this morning after a later night and took my morning tea there as Di made the drinks. Downstairs to the kitchen, where I cooked my own breakfast – fried egg, bread, tomato, bacon, sausage and mushrooms. Then to settle to the paper until finished and after, my first shower since my illness, as I gradually get back to normal. Out to the ducks and doves on a mild day. 4 eggs, which is the best the ducks have managed in a long while. No sign of the blue-bar we took to Bedford and so we may have escaped him. We now have three cocks and three hens left – all nice fantails and look forward to the breeding season. Off then with the girls to Bedford and for me a morning at the Peacocks auction. I secure the bedroom suite, but at a cost of £520, which is fair value, but at a higher price than I wanted to pay.
Also got the oak book shelves for Di. Late back to St Neots, where we collected Daniel from his school bus and have lunch in the Riverside Park restaurant. Some time shopping in St Neots and we look at compact discs, before Di takes Daniel to the clothes shops and I get some prawns for tea. Home to find Steve waiting for Dan and I settle to televised live international rugby and hockey. Out to the doves and ducks at dusk and I have to look at Aquabean with Dan and Steve, and rule out the ambitious alterations they were planning. After tea, the carriers arrived with my furniture, but I was disappointed to find they had dropped the wardrobe and damaged it. I shall repair it, but I had been attracted to it because it needed no attention! We are still very pleased with the choice though. An evening of television before catching up on today’s journal and then watching the television news. News today of Thatcher resisting popular calls for different policies and labeling those in her party that disagree of ‘professional grumbling.’ The funeral service of Sweden’s Olof Palme today, in a well-attended international event, but jazz was the preferred music, before a street procession to the sound of drum beats. In Singapore, a seven story hotel collapsed, trapping over 100, still after some hours. The latest Russian space craft has linked with the space station to provide the first permanently-manned station to be set up. More protests and demonstration in South Africa to mourn yet more shootings of precious demonstrators by the police. After a milder day it will be the same tomorrow, but it is still quite a low temperature for the season.