By arranging for her friend, Helen Cranston, to come and keep her company, Debbie was happy again.
By arranging for her friend, Helen Cranston, to come and keep her company, Debbie was happy again.

Debbie was soon awake and pining for the company of her pony Sundance but, by arranging for her friend, Helen Cranston, to come and keep her company, she was happy again. Later, the girls watched videos whilst Diana washed and cleared up Heronshaw.

I sat and fished from the river frontage and caught half a dozen roach using bread paste as bait to avoid the eels. Daniel was all right at home this morning but complaining of having no food or drink. Iraq orders foreign embassies in Kuwait to close. 

Despite the exertions of yesterday, I was first awake on and then Diana joined me and made the morning drinks. Debbie was soon up and about and wanting to know when she could go home to see Sundance. Diana was doubtful as to whether we should stay any longer. I persuaded her and Debbie that it was a good idea to stay and that Debbie's friend, Helen Cranston, should be allowed to come tomorrow to keep her company. Being Sunday, the girls watched their favourite TV programmes ("David The Gnome" and "Ramona") and then Debbie telephoned the Cranston’s to see if Helen wanted to come. She did indeed and her parents agreed to bring her to Horning this very day which pleased Debbie immensely.

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We went off to Wroxham in much better heart, did some shopping, had lunch and then collected some new video tapes. We took some Sunday papers back to Heronshaw and Diana and I read them and the girls watched videos happily as we waited for our visitors to arrive. At about 3.30pm, Debbie and I took the car up to the top of the Ropes Hill Dyke road to watch out for the Cranston’s and they soon arrived. They all came in for a nice cup of tea and some cakes on the Heronshaw balcony and had a look round at the boat and bungalow. They stayed quite a long time in the end, but I did not mind as they had made the journey to bring Helen and this made more of a day out for them. Later, the girls watched videos whilst Diana washed and cleared up Heronshaw.

I sat and fished from the river frontage and caught half a dozen roach using bread paste as bait to avoid the eels which seem to be very plentiful in the Broads now that the commercial eel catching has died out. It had rained very hard at times today but there were brief dry spells for my fishing which was nice. We spoke to Daniel at home this morning and he was all right but complaining of having no food or drink. All else was quiet with no telephone messages on my answering machine. Iraq orders foreign embassies in Kuwait to close.