Cambridgeshire Deputy Chief Constable, John Stevens
Cambridgeshire Deputy Chief Constable, John Stevens

A good start to our day reading guides and enjoying a fine breakfast before checking out of our hotel in the rain and visiting the used boat show displays as the weather improved, identifying the Broom 37 as our favourite choice. The long tiresome journey home after which I enjoyed the last night of the BBC Promenade Concerts on television and wrote up these last two days’ Journal.

Cambridgeshire Deputy Chief Constable, John Stevens, is to lead the investigation into the leaks which have thrown the Anglo-Irish agreement into stress. In South Africa, the youngest victim of the election day shootings (13-year-old Patrick Muller) was buried today and, for once, the public ceremony and demonstration when uninterrupted by police.

Di laid in this morning as I got up and sat in the lounge area of our suite and read more of the brochures and books. The book on boatbuilding and fitting-out by Geoffrey O’Connell was particularly helpful and illuminating. Once Di was up and about, we had our breakfast: For me another fine meal; this time of scrambled egg and bacon. We checked out of our hotel in the rain again and then drove round all the ‘Used Boat Show’ displays on the Rivers Test and Hamble which accompany the Southampton Boat Show. The weather cheered up a bit for the occasion. We saw lots of boats but nothing to rival the new Broom 37 from our Norfolk Broads.

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The long journey home on the motorways again. We wonder how people can live with the noise, stress and strain of such journeys on a regular basis. We are becoming quite the ‘old codgers’! On the way home, we stopped off at Stevenage and Letchworth hoping to go to the cinema, but the programs were too late. Once home we settled in and then I watched, listened to and enjoyed the last night of the BBC Promenade Concerts on television, wrote up these last two days’ Journal and had to wait up for Daniel to return home.

The news today is of the enquiry into the Belfast security leaks. Our Cambridgeshire Deputy Chief Constable, John Stevens, is to lead the investigation and arrived in Belfast today. The leaks (according to the Republic’s leader Charles Haughey) have thrown the Anglo-Irish agreement into stress. The British soldier was shot dead today. Ten Welsh football supporters from Swansea have been jailed in Greece after an hour-long fight with local youths. They will serve 16 months unless they can raise £800 each. In South Africa, the youngest victim of the election day shootings (13 year old Patrick Muller) was buried today and, for once, the public ceremony and demonstration when uninterrupted by police. In England, the health minister, Lord Trafford, has died of lung cancer.