The Lady moored up at Waits Quay, St Ives
The Lady moored up at Waits Quay, St Ives

A warmer but unsettled night aboard The Lady and awake to find the heating not working. Some shopping and lunch in St Ives, before home by boat, arriving at teatime to unload the boat and settle in home. In the absence of the Village Hall Chairman I chaired the committee this evening.

Twelve holidaymakers die in a Cuban aircraft crash and rowdy England football supporters fight aboard the ferry with one of them lost overboard.

A rather unsettled night. The weather was milder than of late and I could not get comfortable in my sleeping bags. Just as well that it was warmer as our boat heating failed to come on this morning. It seemed to be a complete loss of power that will have to be looked into. After our morning routine, we all had a nice morning shopping in St Ives.

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We found the saddlery stall at the market and Debbie enjoyed buying a few things there. We had morning drinks and then went to the hardware store where we bought a couple of new power tools (cutter and sander) and a range of other things, which will be useful in renovating The Lady. Lunch of takeaway’s; I chose the Chinese and had a soup and then sweet and sour pork and rice and family had hamburgers. Then the trip by boat back home, through the locks, arriving at our landing stage at teatime. Daniel and I brought dozens of bags of belongings back ashore in relays as Di pack them up. Just a few messages on my answering machine and items of mail.

I telephoned my mother and found out that dad had declined in condition with a swollen face and foul discharge from his ear. He had taken to his bed and not eaten much for a couple of days. Another call was from the chairman of the Village Hall committee. He will be absent from the meeting tomorrow night and I will be chairing it as the Vice Chairman.

The rest of the evening trying to sort ourselves out and settle into our house once again. The news today is of deaths and problems for tourists. 12 people have died when a Cuban aircraft carrying holidaymakers crashed. Rowdy, drink and drug-crazed British football fans fought on a ferry from England to Sweden and one of them was lost overboard, believed dead such that the ferry had to be turned back. Uproar in Ulster as a British soldier, convicted of leaking security information to the Protestant terrorist organisation – the UVF, is allowed to resume duty.