Newspaper interviews on the Japanese MSX threat and arrangements for more DTI meetings before an evening on the kids’ homework as USSR’s Gromyko denounces the USfor peace posturing
A long lay in on a fine day reading today’s Financial Times and last week’s Economist. Another slimming breakfast of toast and apple juice and then dressed on time to enter the office at 9.15. A message from the locksmith that today’s arrangements were cancelled and the carpenter’s efforts rearranged for tomorrow. A row with Diana over the need to stay in to assist while she was in an agitated state over her first keep fit session today. The morning and afternoon calculating and analysing our investments and income to date, ending with a typed list. Phone calls to the DTI, Head of IT Division’s office, following Brian Willmott’s letter of invitation to a meeting and arrangements made to meet on the 2nd October. Calls also from The Sunday Times, Philip Beresford and Jane Bird, and interviews on the MSX threat and the effect of exchange rate variations on the fortunes of the UK industry.
Calls also to Nigel Smith of the BMMG and John Lamb of Comart to compare notes and ask for recent computer magazine copies. Nigel pops round later in the day with a good few magazines and with a slightly more cheerful story of company orders in this depressed season. Tea of chicken and an early evening practicing writing with Debbie and then checking Daniel’s homework. Then to read the computer journals and take press cuttings. News today of The Archbishop of Canterbury’s denial that an exchange of private letters with Ian McGregor constituted an apology. Gromyko voices Russia’s denouncement of US electoral peace posturing. A naive anarchists’ ‘Stop the City’ demonstration day gains 470 arrests, but achieves little.