After an incomplete night’s sleep, and a simple breakfast, I joined Diana for some Christmas shopping in Cambridge when we met Di’s parents for coffee as well. Lunch at the Greek bistro restaurant, which we enjoyed and then home quite weary to watch some televised rugby and the local news.
A backbench Tory revolt has made Cambridge county council and ruled out the Tory plan to discontinue the school meals service and the national government is under attack for failing to offer safety for Vietnamese refugees
I still did not get a complete night sleep, but it was better than of late. I had breakfast of a single croissant and then, once the children had gone to school, Diana took me off to Cambridge for some Christmas shopping. The A45 roadworks delayed us again and then we had to queue to get into the round church car park. At least Di’s parents were late to arrive to and so we sat with them chatting and drinking coffee until 11 AM. The presents we then bought included a large bottle of dear SMO perfume for Diana, a new Archimedes microcomputer (£1000 worth) for Daniel and prayer books and other books for my God children Kate and Ashley Smith.
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I then took Di for lunch at the Greek bistro restaurant, which was good, cheap and well served. On our way home, we called at the Wesley garden centre and bought Christmas wreaths for the house and dad’s grave. I was quite exhausted by these exertions and so sat and watched televised rugby union football. I saw the last quarter of the Cambridge University versus Oxford University match and was doubly pleased to see Cambridge win. Firstly, because it was the local team and secondly that the Oxford University was full of overseas ‘postgraduate’ players specially brought in. T
onight, I heard the news that the Cambridge county council and ruled out the Tory plan to discontinue the school meals service. A backbench Tory revolt meant that the majority group had to change their proposals and a good job too. The government are under attack from opposition politicians and the United States over the forced repatriation of the Vietnamese boat people. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said that it will have nothing to do with the process and has criticised the government’s move as premature.