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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