Another hot and sultry day but with less insects as we made preparations for our time away. Charles and Chris visited and stayed until late after which I caught up with my journal prepared for tomorrow’s Village Hall Fete. The calls for Nicholas Ridley to resign as Trade and Industry Secretary are mounting tonight as he has few friends in the Cabinet.
Gorbachev is now looking at forming a "broad coalition" of politicians from both within and without the Communist Party, 4,500 Albanians are evacuated by four western ships to the Italian port of Brindisi and 50,000 Romanians are on the streets again protesting about their government
A little tired this morning from the last couple of late nights but at least I was pleased to be able to get cool with the double doors open in my bedroom. Another hot and sultry day but a least the insects are lessening, and the glass is falling a little. I was up reasonably early and spent the entire day at home. I got Daniel to run through the swimming pool maintenance with Mark and then produced over a dozen more letters etc working before and after lunch in the sweltering heat as others used our swimming pool. We had a visit from Charles and Chris and their children, and they came at about 4.00pm and did not leave until after 8.00pm, leaving the children fretful and us exhausted. They seem to have no inclination to leave and would stay forever given the chance.
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Many telephone calls as well and the day ended up with me writing up these last three days' journal and preparing for tomorrow's Village Hall Fete. I made up a sign board and some posters to try and sell some more history books in aid of the good works. We put some new re-chargeable batteries into the cord-less telephone today and thus re-commissioned it so as to save me running up and down stairs to answer it all the time. Poor Diana tried to go and clean the boat this evening but had trouble with trying to run too large a vacuum cleaner off of the power supply and ended up in tears as a result. The calls for Nicholas Ridley to resign as Trade and Industry Secretary are mounting tonight as he has few friends in the Cabinet. Thatcher has also few-enough right wing ministers now and her extreme influence seems to be waning at last. Gorbachev is now looking at forming a "broad coalition" of politicians from both within and without the Communist Party as the political scene gets ever more complicated. 4,500 Albanians are evacuated by four western ships to the Italian port of Brindisi as the embassies decline to take any more refugees as part of the deal with the Albanian government. 50,000 Romanians are on the streets again protesting over the government with which they are not happy.