Day 874

Went into town - wet calm morning with straight-down falling gentle rain. Still no new Maplin catalogue. Cashed my Giro.

From an out-of-breath reporter on R5 just after 11am I realised something had happened IRA-wise: I went down and switched on BBC1, and shortly Quincy was interrupted to announce an IRA ceasefire, which is something out of my experience. Maybe they can sort something out now over there.

Did more Latin, getting pretty good now. Maybe this time is the breakthrough.

In the evening watched an old episode of Hi-de-hi, funnier than I expected. Simon Cadell is very good.. He's very ill apparently. Pity.

Made a successful 9600 baud serial transfer of an 80K file from the Psion to the 486 via Windows Terminal. Saves all that serial port mouse/3link swapping.