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Our affectionate night and early start shopping in Oxford Street were going well until I had the onset of a migraine, having been burning the candle at both ends. We continue to shop in Selfridge’s, John Lewis and then, after a taxi ride to the Dillon’s bookshop, for a book on tropical plants by the Kew Gardens curator and other publications. Transport secretary Paul Channon flies back from his West Indies holiday into a hail of criticism for being absent in the aftermath of the Lockerbie air crash as the search for debris and survivors goes on. 4,000 drink driving offences were detected over the Christmas holiday period and Britain’s outgoing European Commissioner, Lord Cockfield, has been openly critical of Thatcher’s lack of commitment to the European cause
We slept very well last night, and Di’s slinky nightie helped by exhausting us to start with. The only problem was the lack of a clock for me to see the time in the early hours of darkness. At 7:30am, we ordered early morning drinks in our room and then were having breakfast in the restaurant by 8:30am. Off by taxi to Oxford Street and then we started our sales shopping in Selfridge’s. The glory of shopping by 9:30am was that the stores were so empty. It was working out all right until we had an attack of something that was quite worrying. My vision started to become patchy as a migraine was coming on. Di guided me to the store coffee shop and I sat and drank for a while and, despite a slight headache and temperature, it soon went away in 10 minutes or so and I was able to carry on shopping. After Selfridge’s, it was John Lewis and then between the two I bought two hats, a scarf, seed packets and super sexy underwear for Diana to wear.
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Diana was keen on getting away for an early start for our do day London break and so, after a short while, we left in our nice clean range Rover, dropping the girls off at Di’s parents’ house in Bar Hill and then driving down the M1 to Holborn. Some shopping in the High and Mighty shop sale for some clothes and then onto Kew Gardens looking at tropical conservatory plants before finishing at Piccadilly Circus to see the John Cleese film, ‘a Fish called Wanda’ before returning to our Swiss Cottage Holiday Inn and to bed.
I was awoken early by Diana who was eager for us to get started on our two-day London break. I wanted to wait a little while, so I could give my Cambridge colleagues the chance to contact me about my computer repair, but they did not. I also went and sat in the conservatory for a while after breakfast and the fish still seemed to be fine. Eventually, at 9:15am, I decided we should go and within 15 minutes we had loaded our belongings and the girls into the nice clean Range Rover so we could leave.
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I spent the first few hours of the New Year working on my AppleScan facility until 2:30am but I still rose in time to resume writing yesterday’s Journal in the conservatory before 9 AM Before going outside to clean the car ready for our trip to London. All afternoon and evening, working on my computer to progress my history project and then clearing things away ready for Joan to clean whilst we are away in London. Revelling yobs have been causing problems overnight in New Year celebrations, the search for Lockerbie bodies continues and another ferry capsizes off of Brazil, hopefully overcrowded. The New Year’s Honours list is packed full of knighthoods for Thatcher’s political and business cronies
This was a new week, month and year and I spent the first few hours of it working hard on my computer, wrestling with the AppleScan facility for inputting documents. Success, and thus sleep followed at 2:30am. I slept well and awoke at 7am feeling very hot as I left my electric blanket on! I chose to get up and showered etcetera before my enjoying my fried breakfast and then spent much time in the conservatory before 9am writing up this last day’s Journal. I returned afterwards to finish the job and feed the fish. I see they have recovered from gorging themselves and I am now adopting the technique of feeding them as much as they can manage in 10 minutes and then leaving them still looking for food, which is healthier. The weather is still unseasonably mild and so I made up my mind to spend an hour this morning alone cleaning the car. There was no Daniel to help me and so it was the only way in which it could be done and presentable for our trip to London.
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