Day 229

Did a spot of programming before going into town for 3½" discs. Formatted them in the afternoon.

After tea got very depressed about lack of Christmas money, but recovered after the fortunate discovery that Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are both Thursdays - hence they both come before Fridays (Dec. 25th, Jan. 1st) on which one doesn't go out, so the cash can be brought forward.

Tories turning the Torycaust onto the BBC now. They 'want a public debate' - but not about theft of public utilities, 2.8 million on the dole, doubling the number in poverty and crime going up 15% a year. Still, the BBC's Charter doesn't run out till 1996 - hopefully by then the Tories will be nothing more than an evil memory.

Certainly lost all respect for the Government (concept and real) over the last 13 years of Tory misrule. And 1100 more jobs go today...