Debbie sees the doctor about her Asthma as Comart has a  day of better timekeeping with  predictable discontent as a result but a Xitan Review meeting reports better sales, if poor administration as the builders take delivery of our new fireplace and start assembling the new balcony. Thatcher gives the GCHQ unions no respite.

Just on time to the office and found most people arrived. A fair amountof discontent around over my timekeeping purge but no more than I would expect. At least this morning the background heaters were switched on by time-switch in the portakabins. Quickly to sign the field payroll information and then see the mail before starting an all-day Xitan Review meeting. A slightly frustrating meeting as they are always disorganised in preparation, but at least the month of January ended in profit and the sales seem to be rising. A record month, in fact, for software distribution sales.

The meeting cut short through lack of fuller information on stocks and debtors but some progress made. Geoff Lynch will have to adopt more conventional personnel and procedural structures to underpin progress. A little late at the office writing up the Xitan minutes and home just in time to put Daniel to bed. The builders have progressed and now taken delivery of the fireplace and started to assemble the balcony. News today of the almost total collapse of President Gamiel’s Christian regime in the Lebanon as the Druze Militia win successive military battles. Thatcher is standing firm against the combined pressure of Labour and Tory MP’s to compromise on the dispute with GCHQ unions. The weather still frosty and cold. Only 6 duck eggs this morning and, because the older birds were not locked in last night, we deduce that some of each flock of birds are laying. Debbie visits the Doctor today and the diagnosis for her recent attacks is Asthma.