Thursday, September 20, 2018

The changing world (161) Aug-Oct 1990

The paucity of diary entries indicates a period of depression. We went to Wales on holiday. It was so hot that walking in bare feet on the beach was uncomfortable. We climbed Cader Idris and saw RAF planes flying the valley below us. This is the last ever  mountain I climbed. My mother was admitted to Northallerton Hospital and I drove there from Wales on a Sunday and saw her for the last time. She insisted on giving me money for petrol. Visited Harlech.
19th Aug Wendy Barber to dinner.
25th Aug My mother died in her sleep at Northallerton. She was 72. She had instructed that her age not be given on the death notice in the local paper.
Sep 4th    Schools committee.
5th           Finance briefing.
6th           Group meeting
10th         Social services committee.
11rh         Presbytery
15th         Visited Dr Zaki Badawi at the Muslim College.
16th          Bulmer family visited.
17th          Open evening Fairley House school
19th          Oldfield school governors
24th          Congregational meeting
25th         Conservative governors meeting.
27th         Dad visiting us.
30th         Geoffrey and Sara visiting us.
Oct 5th    Elders meeting.
9th          Schools committee
13th        Costons ward supper
15th        Free church federal council
16th        Full council meeting
18th        Walford High governors
19th        Ward surgery
20th        David had friends round to celebrate his 18th birthday - Richard, Rebecca, Luke, Mark, Jeremy
21st         Stuart Ferguson the Presbyterian monk to lunch
22nd        Dad came down by train
27th         Visited Southall mosque.
30th         Melbourne governors
31st          Group meeting

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