_. Snow. Out tonight with Ally, Lynn and Dave to the Emmott Arms, then the Fleece at Horsforth before going on to Jacq's birthday party. I had worried throughout the day, thinking that the snow might put paid to our plans. You know how peculiar Lynn can be about snow lying on the ground.
To Jacq's for 11. Ally and I quarrelled because we got lost on the way. 68, Stanmore Drive proved elusive. Jacq and Paul are truly entwined. It was a good night but the booze flowed too rapidly, and to my horror, at some late hour, I discovered that our supply had expired, whereas I'm usually expired first. Lynn and Dave set off to leave at 3, but Dave started a snowball fight, which came indoors. Jacq's sitting room resembled the south face of the Eiger. Quite riotous. Ally and I slept there on a sofa like refugees. Ally met Eamonn Burke for the first time since June.
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Friday February 1, 1980
_.Hangover. Drank black coffee with my eye balls hanging out. To the YP. Felt like death. I escaped at 11:30 into the sunny, cold, fresh morning. To Bradford where I found Ally looking like a housewife stood over a sizzling lasagne for tonight's dinner. We ate fish and chips from over the road and at 1:30 we returned to Haworth, which looked beautiful shrouded in snow and basking in sunlight. Had a few drinks in a couple of pubs and ended up in the Black Bull. We sat holding hands___________. Back in Bradford for 4 we put a hole in the lasagne and drained a bottle of red wine then sprawled on the rug looking at photo albums.
Phoned Lynn. She says they'll be coming to Jacq's tomorrow if the snow holds off. Ally and I will go even if it means walking to Leeds.
At 6:30 Ally took me to Manningham Lane and then went to her labours at the Belfry. At home I slumped in an armchair until 12:30.
I have a new jacket from Sarah's catalogue.
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Phoned Lynn. She says they'll be coming to Jacq's tomorrow if the snow holds off. Ally and I will go even if it means walking to Leeds.
At 6:30 Ally took me to Manningham Lane and then went to her labours at the Belfry. At home I slumped in an armchair until 12:30.
I have a new jacket from Sarah's catalogue.
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Thursday January 31, 1980
_. Marita's 25th birthday. The only other Marita I have ever heard of is Marita Phillips, daughter of Harold Phillips, and sister of the Duchesses of Westminster and Abercorn.
Phoned Jacq's office to discuss Saturday, but her co-workers couldn't locate her. Mr Entwistle, her boss, is probably sick of hearing me.
Sarah was back today looking jaded and pale. Complaining she is starting with conjunctivitis, hence the lack of war paint on her eyes.
No Ally tonight. I phoned Peter to see what the lads are up to. He came at 8:30 to Les Haute Pins and we went to the Fox and Hounds to see Sue and Janet Simon. From the Fox the four of us went to the White Cross. Gus, Johnnie and Neil were in the White Cross, drunk, at a stag party for some misguided soul. Johnny fooling around hilariously with an inflatable doll. They went off to the 148 Club in Leeds. At home later a party was in full swing [Jim & Margaret].
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Phoned Jacq's office to discuss Saturday, but her co-workers couldn't locate her. Mr Entwistle, her boss, is probably sick of hearing me.
Sarah was back today looking jaded and pale. Complaining she is starting with conjunctivitis, hence the lack of war paint on her eyes.
No Ally tonight. I phoned Peter to see what the lads are up to. He came at 8:30 to Les Haute Pins and we went to the Fox and Hounds to see Sue and Janet Simon. From the Fox the four of us went to the White Cross. Gus, Johnnie and Neil were in the White Cross, drunk, at a stag party for some misguided soul. Johnny fooling around hilariously with an inflatable doll. They went off to the 148 Club in Leeds. At home later a party was in full swing [Jim & Margaret].
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Wednesday January 30, 1980
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| Regicide: 1649 |
At 5pm I scrounged a lift with Carol J to Kirkstall Forge, where I managed to find a seat on a West Yorkshire bus, a rare and wonderful thing these days.
Tonight I studied the letters in 'The Times'. One from an old geezer with a sense of humour who suggested that since we are to have no Olympic Games this year it would probably be a good idea for a 'pools panel' to sit like they do when soccer matches are not played.
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Tuesday January 29, 1980
_. Rang Ally at 8am to tell her of Glynnie's changed plans. She was still in bed despite the fact that she starts work at 8:30.
I was late to the YP [again], but the boss took it very well.Sarah still laid low at Ivory Towers.
In the news: the dreadful Ayatollah Khomeini is close to death. His ticker is giving up on him.
Confusion has arisen regarding the purchase of the house Sue and Pete laid eyes on last week. I am in no position as yet to enlighten you.
TV tonight: John MacMurray was on the telly talking about an opera singer finding her feet in the operatic world. Later, HRH The Princess Margaret was dishing out the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. She spoke very well and is becoming quite like the Queen Mother, that treasured lady. Norman St John Stevas spoke too. Stevas says he was the first MP to say that Margaret Thatcher would be prime minister, but I have always thought that foresight could be accredited to poor Airey Neave?
The Queen goes to Rome in October, and it was actually reported on ITN that HM and the Pope will discuss the possibility of the Prince of Wales making a Roman Catholic marital alliance. It's out of the question, of course.
To bed at 12:15 with a yellowed volume of Erle Stanley Gardner's 'Perry Mason's Famous Cases'.
I was late to the YP [again], but the boss took it very well.Sarah still laid low at Ivory Towers.
In the news: the dreadful Ayatollah Khomeini is close to death. His ticker is giving up on him.
Confusion has arisen regarding the purchase of the house Sue and Pete laid eyes on last week. I am in no position as yet to enlighten you.
TV tonight: John MacMurray was on the telly talking about an opera singer finding her feet in the operatic world. Later, HRH The Princess Margaret was dishing out the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. She spoke very well and is becoming quite like the Queen Mother, that treasured lady. Norman St John Stevas spoke too. Stevas says he was the first MP to say that Margaret Thatcher would be prime minister, but I have always thought that foresight could be accredited to poor Airey Neave?
The Queen goes to Rome in October, and it was actually reported on ITN that HM and the Pope will discuss the possibility of the Prince of Wales making a Roman Catholic marital alliance. It's out of the question, of course.
To bed at 12:15 with a yellowed volume of Erle Stanley Gardner's 'Perry Mason's Famous Cases'.
Monday January 28, 1980
_. Mum came over all peculiar in a shop today and had to sit down on a stack of cans until she regained her composure. She does look pale and tired. I do worry about mama's health at times. Her high [or is it low?] blood pressure has plagued her for some years, and I don't imagine she'll ever rid herself of the problem.
Sarah was off again. She phoned at 9:30 and spoke to Eileen and Carol.
Glynnie phoned. Her cannot come at the weekend, but can come here on Feb 8.
Edwards are in the news. Edward Heath has said he thinks we should go to the Moscow Olympic Games much to the prime minister's embarrassment, and Edward Kennedy is floundering over in Washington. He won't be ever making it to the presidency. He's so bad that nobody has even bothered to try and assassinate him, yet.
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| Ted Kennedy |
Glynnie phoned. Her cannot come at the weekend, but can come here on Feb 8.
Edwards are in the news. Edward Heath has said he thinks we should go to the Moscow Olympic Games much to the prime minister's embarrassment, and Edward Kennedy is floundering over in Washington. He won't be ever making it to the presidency. He's so bad that nobody has even bothered to try and assassinate him, yet.
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Sunday January 27, 1980
_. 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
Up at 10. Ally took me to Manningham Lane and then she went to the Belfry. Spent 44p on a bus fare just to take me to Hawksworth Lane. Bloody ridiculous. At home I brewed lashings of hot tea for my slumbering family. It was like a scene from 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', bodies in all the bedrooms. I sat with the Sunday papers, wobbling and pulsating. Philip Ziegler has been commissioned to write the official biography of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and is to have access to the Royal Archives and the Broadlands papers. I have read Ziegler's 'William IV' which is excellent.
It is impossible to escape from reading about the steel strike. Big deal. So, they've stopped making cutlery. Don't most people just use fingers these days? My chain of thought was broken by my father snoring loudly. I am sure that the gas fire cannot be right. People are seldom conscious in the sitting room, at any time of the night or day.
Ally arrived at 3:30 and we all dined together. Tonight we watched 'The Misanthrope' by Moliere, but I found it a silly play. But before act 3 at least four members of the family were unconscious, and Ally left before she could fall victim to the gas fire. Later watched a profile on Robert Runcie, the new archbishop of Canterbury. To bed at 11:15 with a filthy novel.
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Up at 10. Ally took me to Manningham Lane and then she went to the Belfry. Spent 44p on a bus fare just to take me to Hawksworth Lane. Bloody ridiculous. At home I brewed lashings of hot tea for my slumbering family. It was like a scene from 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', bodies in all the bedrooms. I sat with the Sunday papers, wobbling and pulsating. Philip Ziegler has been commissioned to write the official biography of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and is to have access to the Royal Archives and the Broadlands papers. I have read Ziegler's 'William IV' which is excellent.
It is impossible to escape from reading about the steel strike. Big deal. So, they've stopped making cutlery. Don't most people just use fingers these days? My chain of thought was broken by my father snoring loudly. I am sure that the gas fire cannot be right. People are seldom conscious in the sitting room, at any time of the night or day.
Ally arrived at 3:30 and we all dined together. Tonight we watched 'The Misanthrope' by Moliere, but I found it a silly play. But before act 3 at least four members of the family were unconscious, and Ally left before she could fall victim to the gas fire. Later watched a profile on Robert Runcie, the new archbishop of Canterbury. To bed at 11:15 with a filthy novel.
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