Daniel at home off ill on an even chillier day for waking Sam, but he was able to help me as I upgraded the Amstrad memory to run under Windows. Della was writing a speech this evening all about Sam and will take his rosette, shield and some photographs into school.
Concerning the talks with the I.R.A., the government is being supported by the opposition parties in the interests of trying to find a solution to this intractable problem
It was another bitterly cold morning with a slight frost and much more wind chill as the breeze strengthened from the south-east and thus from central Europe. I had bathed last night and so had just a wash and shave this morning before joining the others for breakfast. Poor Daniel did not feel up to work and stayed in bed early and late; just perking up enough to be helpful to me for some of the day.
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I was still looking into ways of upgrading my computer performance and, despite having decided to buy a new desk-top workstation, Daniel and I still thought that it would be worthwhile to upgrade the Amstrad RAM from 1MByte to 4MByte. We found a company in St Ives that could do it and we went over there in late afternoon to get the job done and ran the system this evening with Windows etc. It was a chilly walk with Sam this morning and again in the evening, but the rain came overnight and, with it, milder temperatures.
I had asked a reluctant Bill to get out and mow the lawns for the last time this morning and this was just as well. I found time today to update more financial accounts and review the family's investments in savings certificates. Della was writing a speech this evening all about Sam and will take his rosette, shield and some photographs into school so that she can give the speech tomorrow.
The news was first of the developing row over talks with the I.R.A. but the government is being supported by the opposition parties in the interests of trying to find a solution to this intractable problem. The House of Commons agrees the second reading of the bill to change the Sunday Trading regulations but the choice of rules will be left to a free vote in the Bill's latter stages.