Kegworth East Midlands Airport Air Crash
Kegworth East Midlands Airport Air Crash

Another slow start to a mild day, taking our morning drinks into the conservatory and worrying about our smallest Koi carp– the Doitsu Sanke – which laid motionless on the bottom. After examining my conservatory plants, I went out to feed the ducks and doves and then back in to my office to scan more documents for three history chapters. There has been another serious crash, killing 22 people at the East Midlands airport after an aircraft engine fire. The Soviet Union announces plans to destroy chemical weapons and Britain’s GEC is an overseas takeover target.

I was a little late to bed last night and so both Diana and I were reluctant to get up this morning. Eventually I did the honours and made Di coffee and took it to her in bed. Daniella was up by now and so we both went to the conservatory and had our drinks whilst watching the fish feed. It was the smallest fish – the Doitsu Sanke – that did not move today; just sitting near the bottom and I wondered whether it was all right. The others fared but not very well but perhaps they getting used to the higher temperatures and are eating enough. Today was a day of work at home. On the domestic side, I was feeding the ducks, doves and fish and examining my conservatory plants; and on the work front, I was in my office taking various computer scans of documents to complete my chapters on Prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon history. It was a long and time-consuming job and I could have done with the Accelerator Card but at least the computer work satisfactorily and I was able to get what I wanted without filling up all of the memory. This evening another horrific accident crisis was unfolding as the television news was being broadcast. This time, a plane has crashed at the East Midlands airport killing at least 22 people out of the hundred and 26 people on board.

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It had an engine on fire and lost height and hit the M1 embankment. The survivors came from the tail section. The Soviet Union has announced plans to destroy their stockpiles of chemical weapons despite there being as yet no international agreement. The latest mad takeover story of a mad market economy is for a foreign takeover of GEC, Britain’s largest electronics company and defence specialist. Today was another mild day the conservatory was keeping up a good temperature and humidity now that frosts have at last installed the roof glass panel was missing.