A mixed day reading and acting on a range of items with one positive outcome being that The St Neots Museum Director will review my Prehistoric History manuscript. There is another row and more chaos at the Heysel trial where defence lawyers walk out, Lester Piggott has been released after one year of his three years jail sentence for a £3 million tax fraud and the stock exchanges around the world are slipping back after the recent increase and so I take profits on Glaxo.
Had gone late to bed last night and I was really quite tired when waking up this morning. Still carried on and spent a mixed day reading and acting on a range of items. Debbie had her friend Helen Cranston arriving at 715 and they played together all day. Della was not too bad about that. Daniel and I worked on the Apple Mac this morning and worked out how to use much of the Word 3.0 package including MailMerge and graphics edits. A call to Bill Walston answered a hatful of queries that we had amassed. The builders worked on today, finishing the floor preparation to the satisfaction of the visiting building Inspector and then concreting it later in the day. This afternoon, the children were besieging my office with a desire to draw pictures on the Apple Mac and were quite a distraction.
I had to take them down to the river to try to catch them tiddlers with a net and caught two eventually. This evening, I got out my history files and started to get back into my last winter’s work. I copied all of the Masters onto word disks for ‘AL Space Downloading’ to get onto IBM disks and then wrote letters to them and the Longsands Museum director asking him if he would review my Prehistoric History manuscript.. Finished before 10pm and was quite tired but glad to have made progress on my history book. Cleaner Joan was suffering today with a bad back and was quite crippled. The news today is of another row and chaos at the Heysel trial where defence lawyers walk out and the trial has to be suspended. The lawyers claimed that the proceedings were ‘an utter shambles’. In the UK, the government is planning a reform of the law with the review of the roles of lawyers and barristers. They will also look at the practice of conveyancing and the relevent fees. In the UK civil action, a girl brain damaged by a hospital operating error has been awarded half £1 million in damages. Racing trainer and former jockey, Lester Piggott, has been released after one year of his three years jail sentence for a £3 million tax fraud and is back at Newmarket. Five people are killed in an accidental road crash in Cornwall as a sign of the times and modern road dangers. The stock exchanges around the world are slipping back after the recent increase and I decided to sell my Glaxo shares as they have netted me a 10% profit over the year. The weather was fine today.