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After a much cooler and better night, the whole family go to St Neots for chores and coffee at the Harvest Bakery. More work on my investments this afternoon, before mowing the games lawn and mopping out the spilt diesel from under the floorboards of The Lady.
The UK balance of trade deficit is at record levels, the NCB is closing two more mines, the Soviet Baltic republics protest about Soviet annexation and Turkey closes its borders to Bulgarian refugees.
A nice night which was much cooler and better for sleeping. We were awake quite early and, after breakfast, opted to go to St Neots together to do some things. Debbie had to go to the dentist, Daniel to the opticians and I did a round of the banks and building societies. I was planning on rebalancing my cash investments. Now that the Abbey National has become a limited company, I can longer trust them with all of my deposits.
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As Diana drove to Cambridge for some shoe shopping with friends children, I prepared to get our investments onto an Excel spreadsheet and also kept an eye on the garden and Koi carp. News is of the aftermath of the Marchioness Thames pleasure boat sinking and of a scare about microwave ovens and bacterial risk
I had another poor night, with the room temperature defeating my attempts to get to sleep until I took my pyjama jacket off in the early hours. We had an early call, as Diana had planned a trip to Cambridge with a friend’s children and wanted an early start. They got to Cambridge early for their trip around the city on an open topped bus but were delayed for an hour in the shoe shop where a long queue of school shoe purchasers were holding things up.
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After a hot and uncomfortable night, another warm and sunny day spending the morning on my press cuttings and then the afternoon on my administration and financial affairs. Debbie was horse-riding this morning and Daniel working on his speedboat before doing his chemistry schoolwork this evening.
In the aftermath of the Thames pleasure boat sinking, the death toll has reached 265 suspected and another ecological disaster takes place with a massive oil spill at a Mersey oil terminal.
I was hot and bothered last night, when we could only suffer from the temperature and stillness of the air. I went to bed with a headache and hoped that would ease but I had to get up again in the early hours and take a couple of pain-killing tablets. This morning, I worked at sticking in the last six weeks of press cuttings into my little and and personal scrapbooks.
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Our swimming pool was a blessing later on a very hot and sunny day but I did my chores this morning, cut the games lawn and then helped move Daniel’s speedboat and dinghy before insisting that he cleaned the Range Rover. Later with Debbie to the riding stables to get her started after some time away from Sundance and then a short cruise on The Lady for all this afternoon before the swimming pool and an outside barbecue.
The tragedy of a Thames passenger Marshioness boat sinking in collision with a dredger today with many passengers lost
A very hot and sunny day. Even in the shade and with the breeze, the air became hotter as the day went on and we were only saved by the use of our swimming pool. This meant a slow start to the day as we let the children lay in with Daniel was the last up after his week of little sleep on the narrow boating holiday.
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