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On a dry morning, after a late night for me and the girls, I was tired this morning, but I eventually started and worked all day producing four local editions of FOCUS newsletters, which were well received. Di took the girls to the cinema whilst the boys experimented with radio transmitters.
Kenneth Clarke was sending contradictory messages about settling the Ambulancemen’s pay dispute, the post-revolutionary situation in Bucharest is far from a happy one with demonstrations in the streets for faster reforms. A year after the London to Belfast Boing 737 crashed on the A1 at Kegworth, the report is awaited on why the wrong engine was shut down
I stayed up very late last night watching the recorded highlights of the day's F.A. Cup football matches which were quite exciting. In the end, it was after midnight before I got to bed, and the night seemed short when I was woken up at 8.00am this morning. Debbie and Helen had been eating a "midnight feast" of chocolates etc. and so I was not the only one that suffered. This morning, I was a bit slow to get going as I had to deal with the doves and fish etc, but I eventually got down to work at about 10.00am.
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Another early start on a mild but wet day, this time to get Debbie off to her horse-riding and then I spent the day of copy-writing and planning for the next FOCUS issue with Michael, Pat and Percy Meyer and Sally Guinee to have special editions for Priory, Paxton, Buckden and Eaton. Debbie had her friend, Helen to stay for the weekend, Daniel had his mock driving test today and the instructor only gave him a 65% chance of passing.
One of British Navy's top secrets revealed; the existence on board our battleship HMS Coventry of a laser weapon. Russia's Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadse, has backed Rumania's new leaders and offered to supply gas and oil. Kenneth Clarke is in trouble again in the ambulance dispute; his chauffeur being paid £25,000 which is double the £8-10K he is asking the ambulancemen to accept!
Another early start, this time to get Debbie off to her horse-riding. Again, I was the last down to breakfast, eating on my own apart from Della. I tended my conservatory, fish and doves in the absence of Pete today, and then made myself a coffee and tried telephoning the marine electrical place in Norwich to see if they were open, but they were not. This destined me to a day of copy-writing and planning for the next FOCUS issue and so I got Michael over and we had a session on the Priory and Paxton stories and case-work. After lunch, he returned and we were joined by Pat and Percy Meyer and Sally Guinee and we created the rest of the copy so they we are going to have special editions for Priory, Paxton, Buckden and Eaton which will be quite an achievement.
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Although The US has been ‘experiencing the worst weather in the United States for 50 years’, we set off as a family for the Earls Court Boat Show on a milder, showery day and took the train from St Neots station and then arrived by underground. Apart from Debbie being too old for the play area, we had a useful day and everything went well and we found several equipment suppliers that could help us with our new boat equipment and bought a RIB.
USSR President Gorbachev cancelled political visits from overseas ‘to have time to deal with his domestic problems’ and this news sent shock waves through the Tokyo and Wall Street stock exchanges. Lithuania wants to break away from the Soviet Communist party providing his biggest political crisis yet. Thousands of demonstrators have been attacking the border fences and installations in the southern republic of Azerbaijan. At home the TUC are supporting the ambulancemen with a 15mins strike on January 30th and the government is upsetting the teachers again
Another early start, this time for us all to get ready to go to the Earls Court Boat Show. We had breakfast together (even though I was in my dressing gown at the time) and then left the house in time to catch the 9.07am train from St Neots station to Kings Cross. Funny thing was that the car-parking fee reduces from £1.50 to just 10p after 9.00am and so Daniel "volunteered" to wait at the car parking ticket machine until the appointed hour in which case he was allowed to pocket the £1.40 difference! The train journey was quite satisfactory. We could get a cheap ticket that included the underground and we managed to get seats although the train was quite full.
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Recovering from a restless night in the old-fashioned way, I slept well until we had to wake to take Debbie horse-riding and, after some breakfast, Fiona showed her how to fit the new bit to the bridle of Sundance and it worked very well. Some work on my financial affairs, my post bag of complicated District Council papers and then to take the family to the Pantomime at the Cambridge Arts Theatre to see "Dick Whittington" from one of the two boxes after which I had to attend a meeting of Little Paxton Parish Council.
General Noriega, the deposed Panamanian President, has given himself up to the U.S. forces and unions and certain councils are now ignoring the bosses and contracting the ambulance service, employing suspended ambulancemen to drive hired vehicles. The worst ever train crash in Pakistan has killed 307 and injured 430 others
Had a slightly restless night until I realised that Diana was still awake. We slept better after some mutual contact in the old-fashioned way, missionary style! My next memory was of being woken up in the dark and cold. Diana was up early so as to take Debbie horse-riding. After breakfast, I got Debbie to try working out how to put the new bit on Sundance's bridle and that took her some time and so they did not go so early after all. When they arrived, Fiona was there to show Debbie how and so she was able to try it out and it worked fine. Sundance was much easier to control as a result.
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