After the sunny start to the day there was rain later as I tussled with the problem of controlling my new dehumidifier and also joined Michael Pope to see Fiona Lockett who now seems unlikely to stand for us as a Democrat candidate. Acute transport congestion in London as a result of the second one-day rail and tube strike, organised by Jimmy Knapp, that leaves Thatcher furious and fugitives from China tell more of the massacres that took place.
A cooler day and one was accompanied by rain in the air later. It started out fine and sunny, however, as I checked the conservatory to see the dehumidifier was working well, if difficult to control. Then it was time to collect Michael Pope and go on to see Fiona Lockett of Priory Hill. We wanted her to stand as a Democrat for the Town Council Elections, but she remains reluctant. Whilst agreeing to think it over, I think that she will turn us down in due course. She is very busy, and Percy Meyer had offended her and husband in the old SDP days.
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We finished before lunch and I went to the barbers for a haircut which was long overdue! Home for lunch and then the rest of the day in my lounge and office taking the last press cuttings from the backlog of local newspapers and nearly finishing the job of pasting them in. I got to bed quite late in the end. I had a few conversations today with the de-humidifier agent and manufacturer to secure a handbook and then discuss the problem I was having with control of the humidity. I’m using a time switch in the meanwhile. The news today was of acute transport congestion in London today as a result of the second one-day rail and tube strike, which left the capital frustrated and delayed. The prime minister and her colleagues were furious with the railwaymen but have only their own policy of confrontation to blame. The Prince of Wales has been publicly critical of the English educational standards, quoting his own staff as bad examples, which is unwise. The fugitives from China tell more of the massacres that took place during the recent army repression of the democracy protesters