Slow but cooler start to the Comart week, with sales staff problems and John back late from holiday and then an evening working in my shed
A cool day with welcome relief from cloud cover and a wet rainy start to the day. The employees of Comart start the day slowly without anyone to open the factory doors much before 8.30am. I mourn the fact that staff timekeeping has deteriorated to the point where nothing much gets underway until 8.45am. John Lamb’s return is unaccountably delayed until late morning but I track him down to home having just arrived after multiple ferry delays. Another day of telephone press interviews and coverage in this morning’s Guardian.
More problems with Ken Goddard with Paul Coombes liaising. Today we received notice that Bob Robinson intends to take the company to an Industrial Tribunal for constructive dismissal but I do not worry unduly as the files are intact and correct in the matter. No haste to come home tonight as the rain has dampened The Lady and with it any chance of varnishing until drier weather. I work on my tools in the workshop and start the restoration of the mast. Diana today went to Cambridge with the children and had her new soft contact lenses attended to. This morning I just managed to clear the accounts and pay Diana nearly £600 for the month’s housekeeping and reimbursements. The news confirms that both motorcyclists died in the Grand Prix accident as I expected. Also the main running story is of looting and arson against Indians in Sri Lanka.