I was planting waterlilies and fitting underwater lighting units to my fish pond on another hot, sunny and humid day before joining Della in our swimming pool and then designing my publicity pack for selling my books. Daniel brought home very poor school assessments and I went through his work. The Chinese crisis deepens with more troops brought in to control the demonstrators, Thatcher is blaming Chancellor Lawson for 8% inflation rates and dockers, tube train drivers and bus drivers are all planning strikes
This was yet another hot, sunny and humid day. I got up, dressed and showered on time and then occupied myself planting the water lilies in tubs in the pond. I re-introduced the underwater lighting units, securing them to the tubs with galvanised wire and taping the sharp edges. During this job, the Village Hall Secretary arrived to use my photocopier. I was quite tired from the exertion and the clearing up afterwards, but I was glad that the plants were introduced. The pond water temperature rose to 75°F and the Koi cannot stop eating and swimming. This afternoon I was tempted into swimming in the pool on a humid and hot afternoon. Della loved it but I ended up more tired and stiff as a result. Daniel brought home very poor school assessments and I sat with him this evening and went through his work.
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Then I drafted and printed my publicity pack designed to get my book mountain sold. The news today is of the mounting crisis in China as Chinese leaders pour more troops into the capital to try to control the demonstrating students and workers. The UK inflation rate has written beyond 8% with 9% possible before long and now Thatcher seems to be blaming Chancellor Lawson for ‘shadowing the Deutschmark to closely’. She is at loggerheads with the other European leaders on the new community social policy as well. On the industrial front, registered dockers have voted to go on strike by an overwhelming majority. London tube train drivers are planning another one-day strike next Tuesday, the third stoppage in their campaign to get higher pay now that the guards are being dropped from their trains. Bus drivers are also unhappy and will be striking soon. The hot and humid weather is on course to persist into next week with just the chance of thundery showers stop one of the Kimbolton pupils on Daniel’s maths class collapsed with the heat today.