Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ
The Queen's Official Birthday.
Twooping the Colour. Sunshine. That old horse called Burmese. Fergie. What joy. Ian MacGregor is knighted. Bill Deedes of Private Eye's 'Dear Bill' is a peer. Thank God Dad was here. Samuel is devoted to his grandad and off they went to the park. Fergie on the front page of the DT watching the tennis at Queen's Club where Boris Becker was beaten 6-7, 7-6, 6-2, by Tim Mayotte.
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Hectic. A retirement buffet at 12:15 for 50 folk or so. Very successful. Kenmar came and removed the fruit machines and in came Bell Fruit. The papers are full of Olivia Channon. Sex and drugs and rock and roll. Dad stayed today and was invaluable. He is staying on tomorrow when Margaret Young's 21st bash will dominate our tap room.
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| Fox & Hounds, Starbotton. |
Ally to the clinic and me to Dr York re my allergies. He is not happy about the effectiveness of injections (50/50) and yet he is sending me to the BRI to see a specialist. Once allergic to animals, always allergic to animals, he says. We spent the morning at Club Street. At lunchtime we went to Starbotton, where the pub is for sale for £160,000. Dad phoned from the Moorhouse where he had landed on impulse and was in the bar nattering with Audrey and Ann (Wilkinson). We came back to join him and had a few drinks together.
Olivia Channon, daughter of Paul Channon and a Guinness heiress, has been found dead at university. Her step-brother recently became engaged to a Rivett-Carnac from Martyr Worthy.
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The Bakers flew to Majorca yesterday for 2 weeks. Here: World Cup - England 3 v. Poland 0.
The Duke of Edinburgh became an OAP yesterday. Bus pass, &c. And on June 9 the Queen Mother attained the great age of 85 years and 304 days, and became the oldest lady to have been the Queen Consort, and indeed she is already older than our oldest sovereign (Queen Vic) by 4 years. The Queen Mother has now surpassed Queen Mary in age.
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Beverley Wilson, 19 today, called in at 3pm in response to the birthday card I despatched to her. She is to have her job back. She has argued with Peter _____________. Oh dear. She starts on Sunday. LG came in 8 to 8:30 and was joviality itself. Poor Samuel still sick. It is announced that Bob Geldof is to become KBE, but won't be 'Sir Bob' because of his Éire nationality. Over the top, I think, but a popular gesture. It will please the masses.
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Took Samuel at 12 to see a doctor who didn't seem worried and sent us away with some powder for his tummy. Poor little mite. He is so rarely ill and has been knocked for a six. John and Janette came back at 8 looking subdued after the events on Saturday night. They say that Jayne Waite will now provide the wedding buffet even before I had the chance to cancel the buffet here. John had £600 in his wallet intended for me. _________. John had Jack Collett in hysterics discussing John's plans for a four-day orgy in Majorca for the stag party.
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2nd Sunday after Trinity
Over to Guiseley this afternoon to sit in the garden with Lynn and Sue. Discuss the events of last night. ______. We left hurriedly at tea time when Samuel was taken violently ill. Vomit everywhere. Poor boy. Ally had a terrible night with him. Vomit all over his bed, &c.
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New Moon
Ally went to her dentist at Shipley for 10am taking Samuel along. He sat as quiet as a mouse in the room as the white coated Mr Roberts (?) probed around in his mother's mouth. It was a shameful evening. Janette phoned to say they would be coming across to discuss the forthcoming wedding and Ally and I waited all night. Sure enough John and Janette came in with George and Jayne at 10:30. After closing we sat in the tap room where the plan emerged that they want 70 guests here for champagne and smoked salmon, guests including ________________. We blew up. No way am I entertaining that cow in my home. I explained it wasn't the done thing.
(The evening ended in chaos and ill -will. I say things about living people not suitable for publication).
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Poor Ally. What a dreadful time she has had with this baby. For months now I have been up before her, often grumpily and grudgingly to bring her some morsel of food to bed to try and quel her nausea. She is large, and stretched. My God, the things we inflict upon our loved ones.
Lt.-Col. Sir Peter Farquhar, 6th Baronet, has kicked the bucket along with David Colville (see Colville of Culross), a brother of Sir John Colville, whose 1939-55 diaries I am desperate to read. I believe Ally has ordered the volume from our book club.
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I am very worried about my appearance. The FLAB, it hangs over my trousers in a disgusting paunch. It is the sort of thing I laughed at in others in my more slim-line years but now I am a leading candidate in the Cyril Smith stakes. My face is round too, hideously so that my chin has now merged into my neck. Oh God. See in the Daily Telegraph that speculation is rife re the forthcoming honour for Bob Geldof. They suggest the OBE. Jimmy Savile received this award for raising £10m for Stoke Mandeville hospital ten years or so ago. We'll see.
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