The Navy Club in the heart of London's West End
The Navy Club in the heart of London's West End

After a better night with my injured foot, taking aspirin to control the pain, I had controlled the fever and was able to accompany Daniel who drove me to the London Navy Club for our all-day course on ship VHF radio operation. He drove us home after dark after which I had a restful evening ahead of my all-day council meeting the next day. I got the chance to write up the two days' journal that I was in Norfolk by getting my computer brought into the lounge.

I had a better night with my injured foot, but still had to take regular aspirin to control the pain. I had taken some time to settle down and come out of my fever and for my body to get the temperature right. This morning, I was awoken early by arrangement and then started to try to wash and get ready to go out to London. Daniel was driving me, and we were going to an all-day course on ship VHF radio operation. I decided that I was OK, and we left Paxton. As we drove off, we saw that the river was in full flood with the valley and our riverside gardens under water. It is the worst we have experienced since 1979.

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The journey was all right and represented good practice for Daniel. We had to worry halfway there when the A1 turned into a motorway as Daniel is not supposed to drive in these circumstances. In the event, I let him drive on as I was incapacitated. We arrived at the Navy Club half an hour early and settled into our places in good time for our course. It took all day and the form of lectures in the morning, worked examples in the afternoon and then an examination around teatime. We were quite worried earlier as the extent of the knowledge required seemed daunting but later it fell into place and the examiner was very kindly and helped everybody through to success. We had to go up and down the stairs to the second floor several times and this did my foot no good, but I lasted, and Daniel drove us home safely. He therefore got practice of driving after dark which was good. The rest of the evening was quite restful, and the night started early to give me the most chance of recovering for my all-day council meeting tomorrow. I got the chance to write up the two days' journal that I was in Norfolk by getting my computer brought into the lounge.