On a warm day with plenty of showers, I was concentrating on getting my financial statement completed and writing up two days of journal until being called to the riding school to help Debbie with Sundance. I then forego the village hall disco dance and hear the news featuring the Chinese authorities arresting 600 and brutally crushing political opposition as more ethnic unrest in Uzbekistan and another rail -crash kills a further 31
I slept in a while this morning and Di was a bit late as a result to get the breakfast prepared and Daniel off to school. I decided to concentrate on getting my financial statement done but I was first distracted by the sound of fire engines racing through Paxton. It turned out to be some rubbish on fire at the school. Then Debbie called me from the riding school and asked for help in catching Sundance. By the time I got there, she had caught him after all! I met somebody on my return to Paxton who were driven in from Eaton Socon with newspapers for the Scouts collection on the wrong day! I took the papers into my garage and made a note of his details as a possible future Scouts helper. I then watched the first England versus Australia Test Match Cricket on TV placed on my desk as I keyed in my financial transactions. This upset Diana and Daniel, who can’t see I can do this when we are waiting to know the outcome of the Admiral’s Cottage business.
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I worked on this evening and decided not to go to the disco dance at the village hall. At least I had supported it by buying the tickets. I had to write up two days journal and was delayed by a fascinating TV programme featuring Paul McCartney making his latest LP. The news this weekend is of the wildcat docks strike turning into a vote for official action. The Chinese authorities are brutally squashing domestic opposition and now arrest 600 people as ‘ringleaders and troublemakers’. The Euro elections are hotting up with Kinnock calling Thatcher ‘a tinpot Boadicea’ and accusing her of being anti-European and anti-British and the Democrats appeal the contest be made more than a two-party squabble over Mrs Thatcher. The USSR is still in the wars. There is more ethnic unrest in Uzbekistan and another rail -crash kills a further 31. Today was warm but with plenty of showers, excellent sport with UK cricket and the start of the 24-hour le Mons race with Porsche and Jaguar slugging it out.