I breakfast together with my family and then fed the ducks and doves with my Dad before he and Mum left after morning coffee. A lunch of Christmas leftovers and then a futile attempt to find a garden centre open before shopping in St Neots and then watching a space film on television with Daniel and his friends. Then watching ‘Anne of Green Gables’ with Di and Debbie this evening before listening to the aftermath of the Lockerbie tragedy, where rows of coffins lined up in the town hall as a makeshift mortuary. The US applies more trade sanctions by way of tariffs on EEC food imports, but the Briton held in Iran has been released.
I slept well enough and, for once, Diana did not keep us awake all night coughing. I was the first one up this morning and so I got the morning drinks and brought Diana’s as well. My parents had also slept well, and we all had breakfast together and then Dad joined me whilst I fed the doves and ducks. A slow coffee and a long chat in the lounge before they left at midday. The weather was mild and dry again today, as we said goodbye to my parents. We had a lunch of Christmas leftovers (there was still a fair amount of turkey available) and then we drove out with the girls and tried to go to a garden centre. Willington, Sandy and Eaton Socon were all closed and seem to be intending to remain so all week, which was a pity. We ended up in St Neots, looking around the sales and I bought a bird’s nest fern in Woolworths as a consolation. Home before dark, the doves and ducks again, and then I sat in the lounge and watched a Space Film on TV with Daniel and his friends Gary and Steve before and after tea. This evening, I watched the first two-hour episode of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ with Di and Debbie and quite enjoyed it, but there are two more episodes still to come! Della was sweet and fed the fish with me this evening. She really enjoys the conservatory and pond which is some consolation for Di not liking it. The news today is of the continuing Lockerbie tragedy. A line of hundreds of people from Lockerbie watched the body of the first US victim being carried away from a town hall where rows of coffins are being stored as a make-shift mortuary.
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RAF transporters have being carrying away the wreckage and dogs are still finding partial human remains. It is revealed the jumbo jet concerned had five emergency landings in recent times, one of them after a hole had opened up in the fuselage, when the passengers had to use oxygen masks. The United States has a plan for applying £100 million of trade sanctions by way of tariffs on EEC food imports, which would trigger a trade war with undesirable economic results. A Briton arrested in 1986 and held in Iran, Nicholas Nicola, has been released as a further indication of the continuing thaw in Iranian-British relations.