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Continuing swimming pool maintenance and researching the size and design of a suitable conservatory, calling in at Great Barford and Willington Garden Centre in the process. News of mounting tension in Japan, of a threat for Customs officers to strike, details emerging of Herald of Free enterprise safely failures and of BA buying the Royal Ordinance factories for £190 million, which the opposition say the move will threaten 3500 jobs
Awoke to my morning tea and had a little read of my goldfish book, before getting ready for breakfast. Managed to get the children to clear up their rooms, with a little encouragement. Boiled duck egg and toast fingers, which would have been even more enjoyable if they were not a little overdone. Debbie off to school, Daniel on his boat again and me to my office to spend time on my financial affairs, with the end of the financial year upon us. I received the contract notes for the children’s trust EHP disposals from BZW today and so that was all right. Also the last of the TSB dividend cheques arrived today. A long task updating my financial summary with all of the transactions, calculating the capital gains and adjusting the remaining holdings. Took a break from the paperwork and tended the swimming pool.
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Slow start to the day and then to return to the task of balancing the swimming pool chemicals as a deluge of financial mail arrived before I requested further quotes for my conservatory idea, dropped over to Nigel’s for a magazine and then tutored Daniel in matrices and vectors as Thatcher returns with news of progress with Gorbachev over six meetings, a Brinks Matt bullion theft suspect is cleared, the NCB re-employ 135 Northern and Scottish miners and a Tory bid to re-introduce the death penalty fails in The House of Commons
Di woke me with my morning tea and ventured an explanation as to why I had been experiencing pain at the top of my thighs lately. She thinks it is due to stretching whilst getting in and out of Daniel's new boat and wanted to make me up in the middle of the night to tell me, but thoughtfully resisted the temptation. Dozed off again and was turfed out when Di wanted to make the bed and only just managed to shower and dress in time for breakfast. Daniel had cleared his room up, but Debbie had only just awoken and nearly cried when I asked her to. This morning, I returned to the job of cleaning out the swimming pool, sending Diana to get more chemicals so that I could maintain a very high level of chlorine all day. Even then, the green could only change to a light green/cream suspension by the end of the day.