Tuesday March 24, 1987

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

with Marita.

Tonight after a hectic day of culinary activity we threw a sumptuous dinner for MM and Marita, who came at about 8 o'clock. Marita was 'floral' and attractive. We dined on seafood vol au vent, Swiss veal in wine sauce, ratatouille, new potatoes, chocolate profiteroles with cream. Sumptuous. Ally is quite a cook. We chatted afterwards until almost 2am. Clemmie woke as we were retiring and we had a rough passage.

A Bill to replace the May Day Bank Holiday with a public holiday on or near May 10 commemorating Sir Winston Churchill was introduced in the Commons and given a formal first reading.

Princess Anne, patron of the Scottish Rugby Union, was at the Scotland v Wales match at Murrayfield on Saturday. Her son, Master Peter Phillips, was heard to say that he had bet one Mars bar to 12 Mars bars on a Scottish win. He has my sympathies if he is now not feeling too well.