Sunday June 29, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

5th Sunday after Trinity

Bessie phoned. Andrew and Lorraine are to live in un-marital bliss in a £29,000 maisonette at Eastleigh, Southampton, no bigger than a shoe box. Bessie and Frank are unhappy about them living in 'sin', but what can they do? She says she has bought them storage jars, buckets and bedding, just as if they were married. We did a buffet tonight for the lad from Lawrence House OAP residence. He always looks lost and dejected. He was no different tonight. My God, how dull some people are. Look back at some of my birthdays for instance - my 21st - we were so active and alcoholic. One large, over enthusiastic lady tipped a pint of beer over the head of a fellow guest. I was cross.

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Saturday June 28, 1986

Ian and Jacq.

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Our World Cup fancy dress party: a good gathering. No big crowd from Pudsey, except Marlene who was low and left early. Guests included John, Janette, George W, Jayne, Lynn, Dave B, Sue, Peter, Denise, Tony, MM, Marita, Jacq, Ian, &c. And at 11pm in came Sarah C and Trevor - most unexpected. Sarah is now a jogger. Coal carrying, &c. Jacq, dressed as a football referee, had hiccoughs. They were all gone at 1am leaving Ally and I with Bernie McC, Frank, Alan (Batey), and a couple called Sharon and Glyn. He is a building worker. Bed 3am.

Lord Stockton has been poorly - pneumonia. He is 92. Oh dear. The auction of the Lordship of the Manor of East Dummer, the home village of Sarah Ferguson, failed to find a buyer yesterday.

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Friday June 27, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Temperatures went over 90F today. Ally took Samuel to his cousin Ben's birthday barbeque at Guiseley. Today is our fifth wedding anniversary. At 2:50 I crept out with Jack Collett to the Junction (2 pints) and then to the New Canning WMC. Here I was allocated my own suite because the place was full of undesirables from our place whom I have blown out in the past 2 years. Very drunk. Joined by Copenhagen Willy  and his Fergie-like Mrs. Ally came back at 6. Customers plied me with white wine tonight and by 11:30pm I was doing my Basil Fawlty impersonation and generally causing a breach of the Queen's peace. Upstairs Ally was thoroughly disgusted.

Sue and Ben.

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Thursday June 26, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Ally to the clinic at 2:30. She has phoned some prep schools re Samuel entering at 3. 

The DT has a pic of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, walking arm in arm at Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. They are a loving, demonstrative pair. I feel that the prince will have to show her who is the boss.

Social news: Lady Romsey gave birth to a daughter yesterday, on what would have been the 86th birthday of Lord Mountbatten. Lady Louise, perhaps? Lady Rowena Montagu-Stuart-Wortley has become engaged to John R. Hunt.

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Wednesday June 25, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

A health visitor went to Club St this afternoon to meet Ally. No doubt snooping to make sure we really do have a home in Bradford.

News: Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson paid a flying visit to Ulster. There's a pic in the DT of a heavily pregnant Princess Caroline of Monaco. She is due in August. Sir Frank Whittle has been appointed OM by HM.

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Tuesday June 24, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Stock take at 10am. A £30 deficit. No staff. Sir John Colville's book came in the post, and I flicked through the pages with great excitement.

Viscount Lowther, son of the Earl of Lonsdale, married Miss Angela Wyatt, daughter of Capt Peter Wyatt, RN (retired), on Saturday. I have to keep notes of these sort of things because my copy of Burke's Peerage is 30 years old.

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Monday June 23, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Brewery meeting at the Raynville in Bramley. Samuel went for tea to Karen and Steve's. He and Hayley are very compatible. Karen is so very much like Hilda. Back from the Raynville at 8:30. Fish & chips. Watch a vid of 'Pride and Prejudice', the Olivier version. Maureen and Liz were below and cleaning up and nattering until 11:20.

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Sunday June 22, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

4th Sunday after Trinity

Maradona: hand ball .... or something.

Mags at lunch. Roast chicken. England was defeated by Argentina. A hand ball by Maradona, or something. Bev and Karin did PM. 

Yesterday we received an invitation to the wedding on August 9, of cousin Jacqueline and Barry Raistrick. Startled. We want to go but what about baby? Jacqueline was born on August 9, 1956.

Prince Edward has passed his final history exams at Cambridge University and has been awarded a Class II, Division II degree. 'Highly respectable', says the university. I predict that one day Prince Edward will be Duke of Cambridge.

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Saturday June 21, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Longest Day

Fox & Hounds, Starbotton

Prince William of Wales is four. We went out at 4pm to Hilda's where she has Hayley and Thomas for the afternoon. Samuel played with Hayley digging up Tony's flower beds and dropping bricks into the ornamental pond. ______. Hilda offered to have Samuel if Ally should have to go suddenly to hospital, and if we have no other babysitters. In the post we received details of the pub at Starbotton. It's on the market for £160,000. Over priced, but Ally phoned Frank to enquire about loans, and he quipped that one day we will have all the money we need, i.e. when he's dead, which Ally found morbid and not in the least bit helpful.

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Friday June 20, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

That demure Danish girl the Duchess of Gloucester is 40 today. In another, less tranquil wing of Kensington Palace, more bother from Princess Michael of Kent, who announced yesterday in a published notice that she and Prince Michael would be attending Roya Ascot. This broke protocol because attendance at Royal Ascot is a private engagement. Poor Marie-Christine.

Janette phoned this morning with her wedding plans. It is the Yorkshire Rose, as mentioned by Dad the other day. She says her mother is now to boycott the marriage because it's taking place on English soil. 

I went through my address book and invited people to a fancy dress "When England Win the World Cup" party for next Friday, no Saturday June 28. I spoke to Sarah Collis, who was at Delia's. She says she will come but I cannot bring myself to believe this.

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Thursday June 19, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds, LS11 5NQ

Shibden Hall.

Mum and Dad married 32 years ago today. So sad. Day off in Bradford. Ally had a scan at 9:30 and Samuel and I went in for the performance. Pictures of the baby flashed on a screen but I could make nothing of them. The midwife says baby has its head down and is all in place and looking good. Afterwards we had a drive out and ended up at Shibden Hall, near Halifax, where Samuel bounced on a 'jumping castle' and then we went on a miniature train , walked round the lake, ate ice-creams, &c. Very pleasant. I know Shibden Hall from old, but had quite forgotten about the place. Had a pizza in town at Giuseppe's Backyard.

News: The Kents attended the Channon funeral yesterday. A baby Bowes Lyon and future Earl of Strathmore has been born to Lady Glamis, who is a sister of Mrs Nicholas Soames. Pool match here.

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