Family visit to Letchworth leisure centre for swimming and then to a Biggleswade fair before dropping in to Bickerdike’s garden centre on a day when a thousand demonstrators march in support of the jailed miners and a Florida brush fire spreads 350miles out of control and destroys 90,000 acres and 150 homes
Awake quite early to find Diana had taken her things downstairs. A while for The Sunday Times to arrive, so I read more of the Investors Chronicle as I drink my tea. Down to a nice breakfast of fried egg, bacon, mushrooms and bread, then up again completing the papers by 10.00am. Up, shaved, showered and dressed and the kids persuaded me to take the family swimming. To the car all and off down the A1 to Letchworth and the North Herts Leisure Centre. We all swam in the pool and enjoyed the artificial waves and Della got a little bit wet and wailed, so we put her in a pool-side playpen. One highlight was a girl with the nearest to a perfect figure I had ever seen and I couldn’t help staring. Afterwards to the Letchworth McDonalds for lunch of cheeseburger, fries and apple pie after, then back up the A1 to Biggleswade where I went to the auction fare and left the family in the car whilst I looked round. A fair sized event and I homed in on a dressing stand, which I bought for £12. Made of oak in the 1930s it takes a suit and is ideal for overnight clothes. I also bought an oxo tin for 85p to match another for expanding my* collection. On then to Sandy and a look round Bickerdikes Garden Centre. I bought a mini barbeque to keep on the boat and lots of supplies and new implements for both sets we now have.
Home then to Little Paxton and to put certain of the items on The Lady as Debbie came with me to play with her boat toys. Di came down to call us impatiently for a poor tea of tea cakes and rolls and we rowed over for it. After, out to get my tool kit and then to fix Daniel’s stereo again and to fix the lid and four mahogany feet to our croquet set, repack it and wax the pine case. In to TV and write. News tonight of the underground train strike going ahead tomorrow and is of indefinite duration. London Regional Transport will use the new Industrial Relations Act if the strike is effective in preventing 2 million people getting to work. Thatcher visits Bradford City football ground and hospital to see the scene of the disaster victims. A thousand demonstrators march today to a rally in South Wales to protest at the life sentence given to the two miners. In Florida, USA, brush fires are out of control and have spread 350 miles after a 9 month drought. Only a break in the weather will curtail the fire, which has already destroyed 90,000 acres of forest and 150 homes. After heavy rain overnight, a cloudy and drizzly day and showers are forecast for tomorrow. (x) Edited until 2055)