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DAY 234

SATURDAY 9 MARCH 2002

800 am

Blossom comes in to see sister He’s in a dreadful state His wife has written to let hied twenty-nine) is on heroin He asks me to fill out a form so that he can apply for coot hold of a pair of handcuffs and he plans to chain the boy to a water pipe until he co He’s quite serious

Linda tells hial or practical, nor of much value to his son

600 pm

Blossoranted two days coh moral values and low life He’s quite happy to steal caravans and cars, which has been the reason for several of his fa up in prison, but is devastated when he discovers his son is on heroin This is a man who has been married for thirty-six years, has eleven children and countless grandchildren, and until now, none of his offspring has ever been involved in drugs

DAY 235

SUNDAY 10 MARCH 2002

200 pm

My visitors today are Ed Streator, the former US minister to the Court of St James’s and later American ambassador to NATO, and Quentin Davies MP, who is currently Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland The ninety minutes fly by, as bothwhere you all are

I had forgotten that Quentin was PPS to Kenneth Baker when he was Ho views on the refor proble frankness and honesty about both subjects

Ed adds a view fro cannabis he reminds me that California has recently passed a law to prevent anyone under the age of twenty-one purchasing tobacco, let alone cannabis In fact, he adds, in California it’s virtually illegal to sests that if tobacco was discovered today, cigarettes would be illegal – possession two years, tobacconists five years

400 pm

Stephen is the latest member to join Club Hospital (Sundays, 4 p a two-year sentence for theft, perverting the course of justice and false accounting But there are several twists