Domestic day with the family as Prince Harry is born to Charles and Diana and minder’s rallies are held in Glasgow and Barnsley and Electronic Weekly features my campaign
Awake to a chilly morning with the rain continuing. Diana finishes feeding the baby and then brings me my morning tea and the paper arrives. News with it of a strong stock market, a weak pound and Kode Int put on a further 20p up to 250odd again, with brokers circular recommending a buy. Soon also the post and with it The Economist. I didn’t really find much news or features in each of interest. Up for breakfast of a single slice of toast and some apple juice, now that our diets start to work. Out to release the ducks and drop by the office to collect my business mail. My first back magazine copies – Computertalks – arrived today with a host of bank slips and Informatics newsletters. Back home for coffee and all out together to Biggleswade where we buy two half hundredweight sacks of poultry pellets and go on into the town for the Saturday market. We buy seafood, vegetables and some strawberries for tea. Also some current bread and cakes at my favourite bakers.
A fast drive back to St Neots to collect Daniel from Readwell’s as usual and then off to our Happy Eater lunch date. Daniel and I pull Di’s leg about leaving the baby in the car and she has to go out twice to see if Daniella is all right. After lunch we drive to Cambridge where I buy some printer ribbons and we try again to get a spare print wheel and video battery without success. I also drop into the library and see my printed quotations in last week’s Economics Weekly, which I must get for the cuttings book when I can. Diana and Debbie have a good shop, but have to feed the baby en route, and Daniel finds a super new game at Cambridge Computer Store, which we couldn’t buy in the right media until next week. Home in time for tea and to put the ducks away. A few games of croquet and Daniel nearly once beat me! An evening resting and writing as Diana sewed on the children’s clothes and name tags. News today of the Royal birth to Prince Charles and Lady Diana of a baby boy, weighing 61bs 14oz at Paddington Hospital. Miners rallies are held in Glasgow and Barnsley in support of the miners and in Brussels a committee is set up in the European Parliament to investigate the actions of police on miners picket lines.