An early morning panic as Daniel’s computer was corrupted until I had converted his school GSE project file and open it on mine for him to work on, which he then did. Di took him to school with the edited work after he had missed his bus and I had a late breakfast in my dressing gown! A rush to get my Focus newsletters out to the deliverers and then to help Helen Young edit her Village Hall Committee work! Late to the surgery to have my foot redressed and then eventually time for my journal before very tired to bed. The government in disarray sees the pound sterling and Gilts falling as consumer spending soars
I was rudely awoken at 7.00am by Diana and Daniel who came with the news that Daniel was unable to make his report corrections because his computer operating system was corrupted. I went in to have a look but could do nothing there and so we found a way of using my Mac to convert the IBM-compatible files so as to work on the report in my office. Then I had to re-format the results and get the text into some state for working on and then help Daniel key in the changes as he did the diagrams. There followed a couple of hours of pure hell until we had finished when the results were actually quite commendable. We hope that he will get a good mark because the investigation itself had gone very well. Diana then took him to school as he had missed the bus. The things that children put you through! I hope he has learnt by this experience, but I fear he has not.
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I eventually had my breakfast in the kitchen at 9.45am in my dressing gown (after Joan had arrived) which was a bit embarrassing and then it was 10.30am before I was washed and dressed ready to go out and see my deliverers. There then followed the rush to get around them all in good time whilst trying not to be too brusque. Last was Helen Young to whom I had lent my portable Mac and I brought the computer and disk home afterwards and formatted and printed out her letters for the Village Hall Committee. Lunch intervened and then she came around to approve them and take them away. I rushed off late to the Doctor's surgery to get there a half hour late for my dressing to be done and only then could I relax for the first time today! Later, I started to write up these last few days’ journal and did some other important work as I sorted out my desk. This lasted all evening until I went to bed at 10.00pm with Diana, very tired.
The news today was of the pound sterling suffering at the hands of the speculators as the bankruptcy of the government’s financial policies became fully apparent. Consumer spending is going through the roof according to the January figures and Gilts are falling to a level where I will soon consider buying some. There are some who are trying to cause a distraction by accusing Arthur Scargill and the National Union of Mineworkers of taking Libyan money during the Miner's Strike, but he is issuing denials.