Morning on my Export IT arrangements and BMMG annual report as the new TV arrives at home and the builders are building the new garden wall and chimney stack but Russia’s President Andropov dies and an IRA rocket hits a Belfast school
On time to the office and first to work on Export IT arrangements. A day where, because of the exertions of the week, I was a bit too tired to accomplish very much, but this afternoon I wrote my BMMG Annual Chairman’s Report. This will also double as an election address and insight for the UKITO team into my past work at the BMMG. Our new television has arrived and the family have great fun with the hand-held remote control unit and the teletext services. The builders are now completing the rear garden wall and the chimney stack has risen shoulder high. The Russian Premier Andropov died today after a year’s illness and treatment on an artificial kidney machine.
There is uncertainty today about who will take over with at least two full members of the central committee seemingly eligible. Other news today was that the British residents of West Beirut have been evacuated by helicopter to a naval auxiliary ship offshore. In Belfast an IRA rocket smashed into a school and missed a British Army Saracen patrol. I received a phone call from Mum this evening and heard her good news that she is to be admitted to Hospital on Monday with a chance of an operation to replace her hip. To bed early tonight to try to catch up on some rest.