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Another significant year for me as my 23-year marriage with Diana was coming to an end and I started an affair with Wiggly, herself only 23 years old as I passed 46!
The developments by month were summarised at the time by the following entries, which I have attempted to precis below but are included in full later and are so much better to be read fare down below individually.
A cold and icy beginning and end to the year with Spring Gales, June heat and thundery July followed by floods and storms to end with a wet Christmas.
A peak year for training my new gun dog Sam, winning a Very Highly Commended accolade as he progressed through Novice to full hunting and pointing trials.
Nigel and I were slowly renovating our Cambridge Street property and the Heronshaw rebuilding quest was experiencing delays.
I sold the Rolls Royce and gave my Dad's old Escort Estate to Di’s parents. I helped Daniel overhaul his fast and expensive Rover 825i saloon at a cost of only £190.
Daniel was now working and buying his own things, but I helped Debbie nurse her perceived complexion and skin problems and saw Della make progress in re-growing her plucked eyelashes.
Poor Diana had been suffering health problems and was struggling with the house as well as the children and our relationship seemed to be getting steadily worse.
I did my best to cheer her up but our holiday with the family to EuroDisney was rather too cold to be completely enjoyed but there were lots of good shows to see.
Another major excursion to Scotland when, for once, Diana joined me and the weather was glorious; giving her a totally-false impression of what the Highlands were like.
July was a big family month with our Norfolk Broads boating holiday. The year saw countless family events but also saw one crisis after another for John Major’s Tory government; with sex scandals, financial disasters.
June brought news of John Major and the Tories suffering the poorest results ever in the EuroElection, losing half their seats. His government then lost the key autumn vote on increasing VAT on fuel from 8% to 17.5% in The House of Commons and were in big trouble.
The Queen broke her wrist in a riding fall and her son, The Prince of Wales, was attacked with a blank-shooting pistol at the start of an incident-packed tour to Australia.
The biography of The Prince of Wales made three weekend appearances in The Sunday Times as he is accused of making harassing phone calls to a married man after an affair.
Elsewhere, the year started with the three-day Easter cease-fire announced by the IRA and the start of Sein Fein TV interviews heralds the organisation of formal talks before Christmas as Ulster Loyalists join the Irish cease-fire.
The first artificial heart is fitted at Papworth. An appalling knife attack on the staff and shoppers in a Birmingham store leaves several with serious neck lacerations.
The Managing Director of the Lyme Bay Activity Centre, where several children died in a tragic canoeing accident, was jailed for three years for manslaughter.
The sad news followed of the death of a pretty blonde 5-year-old girl from Meningitis locally and, after the confinement in hospital of her best friend, her death also.
Two more sad deaths with the passing of Manchester United legend, Sir Matt Busby, and radio presenter, Brian Redhead.
England did well at cricket in their 4th Test against the West Indies, but they suffered a massive defeat in the final Test and the ignominy of Lara scoring 375 runs against them; the most ever in a single test innings.
The Football World Cup took place without England who had failed to qualify. A most poignant sporting achievement was the victory by Daimon Hill in the British Grand Prix Formula 1. His father, who had died in a plane crash, had never managed to do this in his career.
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