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Recovering from my evening lecture whilst picking stones off of my new games lawn site and then drafting and printing a press release about my new book, delivering it by hand to local papers. The children host visitors for the pool and it seems that Louise is Gary’s ex-girlfriend! The SAS raid Petershead prison and free the officer held by the inmates, two Iranians are shot dead in London and 6 Buddhist monks die in Tibet protesting at the hands of the Chinese whilst protesting at occupation
After the excitement and tension of last night’s history talk, I was a little restless in the night and missed some sleep. A bit slow up this morning and had breakfast in my dressing gown and underwear, as we had not decided what to do this morning and I knew not what to wear. Some melon to eat and then wheat flakes. Opted to stay at home this morning and went out to feed the doves and then start stone gathering on the lawn bed. I decided to be methodical and laid out parallel planks and two buckets, then took up the stones between them. A long job and only managed a small fraction of the area. In at 10.30am to make my own coffee, as Di had gone shopping with the girls and Dan was at school. It then occurred to me that I should do a press release for the local papers about my book.
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After our normal visit to Bedford today, my talk to St Neots Local History Society this evening as The Labour Conference ends with surprising unanimity and strict security if being planned for its Tory equivalent next week
Slept well enough and was up in good time for once. A simple cereal breakfast again and the children went happily off to school, with Debbie carrying a hopelessly heavy suitcase. Reviewed today’s mail for cheques and other awaited papers and then we set off with Della for a morning’s shopping in Bedford. We had previously paid Joan and Pete for their week’s work, so we could stay out quite late. Counted our coins, so that we scraped the 60p to park in the Luke Street car park and then walked off for coffee in the furniture shop. I checked with the General Manager and they had received our new bedhead, which we could collect later on.
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Instructing lawn-mowing to the gardener, working at home and then taking Debbie to Offord for her horse-riding on Tango again and hearing a tale of woe from her teacher Maria before back to hear that Daniel is ‘engaged’ to his girlfriend Louise and they have exchanged rings and gifts. Colonel Rabuka declares a Republic in Fiji, Labour debates nuclear defence, a long-expected earthquake hits our beloved San Francisco and Thatcher’s government finally relents on public expenditure after years of monetary control resulted in economic failure.
A sound night and then awake to my morning tea on a fine morning. Sat in bed a while resting and waking up and then made a game effort to wash and shave, then dress in time for breakfast with the family. Just about achieved this objective, but the children were actually leaving the table as I arrived. Then the mad scramble to get Debbie and Daniel out of the door to catch their school bus and I settled into my office, as Di prepared to take Della to playschool for the morning. Di was a ‘helper’ today and so had to stay at the village hall anyway. We did not, therefore, see how Della would fare if left alone. My task for today was to write up my speech for St Neots Local History Society tomorrow night.