Organising Della's birthday present and party with Diana as Debbie had her school ‘own clothes day’.
Then more electioneering in Eynesbury where I had Jack Taylor and the duo of Percy Meyer and Carole Purser out despite it being Friday.
Argentinean football star, Maradona, being sent home in disgrace from the world cup after being tested positive for taking a cocktail of five drugs.
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Diana had been feeling the pressure of preparing things for Della's birthday party and not least of her concerns was the costs involved. She therefore wanted to leave the actual presents to me and so I telephoned the main Scaletcrix stockist in Bedford and sorted out what we could get for our budget of £50-70.
With Diana already going to this town for her weekly shop, I felt that it was only sensible for her to drop buy and purchase it! I had reckoned without her tension and concern over the birthday party arrangements, and she was not very happy about it but did it just the same. This let me deal with a whole host of problems that had arisen. Bills to pay, accounts to balance and mail to answer and then across to Luke Street to organise afternoon and evening canvassing.
I had let Wiggly have an evening's break from canvassing and she was enjoying a reward dinner with a couple of male friends from her amateur dramatic society. She had led them to victory in a Treasure Hunt recently and this was the prize. It was intended to be a pleasurable break but one of them had bored her silly with incessant chat about a new "sit-in, self-drive" Dialek that he had bought and her mind was more on her election campaign!
I had Jack Taylor and the duo of Percy Meyer and Carole Purser out despite it being Friday and this justified me sitting there and working on the computer election data whilst they were out. The evening at The Hayling View was spent by Diana preparing for the big party tomorrow. Debbie had an own clothes day at school which she always enjoys. The idea is that each pupil has to donate money to charity to be free from school uniform for the day.
This morning's news was of Argentinean football star, Maradona, being sent home in disgrace from the world cup after being tested positive for taking a cocktail of five drugs. He had looked very "manic" and euphoric during the prior match but the shock of it resounded around the world's football community. The Labour Party just held off the challenge of the Scottish Nationalists in the Monklands by-election caused by the death of the late Labour Leader John Smith.