A full working day editing and copying my Little Paxton Scrap Book so as to present a copy with the return of the original to Jack Ramply and then a rest watching a TV film before catching up with my journal. The harrowing case of a father trying to prevent the mother aborting his child, Bradford City are blamed for their tragic football stadium fire, Robert Maxwell is now trying to compete with the London evening papers and the Opposition parties pledge to cancel Sizewell if the Tories lose power
A rather restless start to the night, thrashing around for a while, with mind too active on this history for my own good. Eventually asleep and glad of it and was well under when the morning came. A while sitting in bed and then showered and dressed in time for breakfast. Gary had stayed for another night and was rather shocked by the realisation that he had his paper round left un-catered for! The family went swimming in St Neots (Ernulf) pool this morning and I carried on working, this time photocopying and amending the transcript of the Little Paxton scrap book and making up a presentation folder to give to Mr Jack Ramply.
Lunch of beef salad and my new pickled cucumbers. This afternoon I carried on re-ordering my files and then, after putting away the ducks and doves, I worked on until tea. Again this evening and if it sounds boring and repetitive – it was! An hour or more clearing up afterwards, but at last I had finished the job and the Little Paxton History now includes all relevant items from the scrap book and I can rest for a while, assured that I am ready for the next developments. Unwound later this evening by watching a TV film and writing up this last two day’s journal, until nearly midnight again! But at least I can relax with a job well done. The main news today is of an historic legal case, with a court ruling that a father has no legal right to protect the life of an unborn baby against the mother’s wish to have an abortion. The case will now be appealed and the appeal will be heard tomorrow, as the pregnancy is already 18 weeks advanced. The institutions will doubtless order the unborn baby’s death, which is a terrible thing. In the court action over the Bradford City football fire compensation, the football club are ruled to be at blame. On the eve of the launch of Robert Maxwell’s new London Daily News, as a challenge to the monopoly of the Evening Standard, the proprietors of the latter paper re-launch a sister publication, the Evening News at a 5p discount to thwart the move. An interesting battle is in store! A Commons debate today on the Sizewell nuclear power station plans and the opposition parties have spoken out against it and would cancel the plans if ever in government.