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Monday August 27, 1984

 Bank Holiday in UK (except Scotland)

Moorhouse Inn, Leeds

Bank holidays are a non-event here, as you know. As soon as it was decently possible we escaped and drove to Otley (hospital) to see our nephew, Tommy Baker. Otley was packed with vomitting juveniles and people without their trousers standing on street corners, &c. The river, as we passed over the bridge, looked like the Ganges at bathtime. In other words, Otley is a place to be avoided on bank holiday mondays. 

We found a congregation around Lynn's bed. The baby is very wrinkled with knees like an elephant, and incredibly tiny. Lynn, as usual, looked like she has just spent a day at the beach. David reserved, as ever. Back to Sue's afterwards. They are backing out of the Lanzarote holiday because of the house on Thorpe Lane. We spoke to (uncle) John only this morning and he has found us the perfect villa at Puerto Del Carmen. We are disgusted at Susan's flippant attitude, and now because they are letting us down the cost of the holiday has increased from £170 per head to £210. This his still a bargain though. Ibiza in the old days cost us £200.

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