A flying visit to Norfolk to meet up with the refrigeration engineer but traffic delays and accidents made me late as I was even booked for speeding! My return was even more eventful in which a lorry had jack-knifed crushing the car coming the other way and killing its driver.
The weather had been fine, and the work went well as the refrigerator was fully commissioned and working well. Home late to find Daniel and a couple of his friends watching the TV as news featured the last set of opinion polls wherein the Tories had pulled back a little on Labour who still had the narrowest of leads with the LibDems holding on to their 20% share
I had to return to Horning to meet the refrigeration engineer and had unwisely agreed to him coming at 8.30am. This meant that I was up at 6.00am, intending to leave at 6.30am and was ten minutes late to start with. The first part of the journey went well, however, and I stopped short of Snetterton for a bacon roll and tea for breakfast at the roadside kiosk. This made me a bit late and then, when a traffic accident led to further delays, I was in trouble. I tried to get out of it by speeding but was then stopped on the outskirts of Norwich and booked by a police car for speeding at 90mph in a 60mph dual carriageway section! I eventually arrived a half hour late and rather agitated.
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The weather was fine, however, and the work went well so that, by the latter part of the morning, the refrigerator was fully commissioned and working well. I had trimmed the excess insulation foam away and the engineer had brazed on the new evaporator feed, re-charged the R12 refrigerant and started it up. Jack and Dolly Edwards were both down at Ropes Hill Dyke and I chatted to them in the open air as the local wildlife as we all took advantage of the weather. Jack has just reconditioned a dinghy to get about on and has made a pretty job of it. Then into Wroxham for lunch before returning to carry on servicing the boat, ready for the family holiday at the end of the week. I also stopped by Jeckells and Jewsons for a new water filter and rubber washers to seal under the boat sink. They had still not produced a price for the timber list that I had submitted.
It took me the rest of the day to install the filter, fix a few problems and return the boat to commission it fully serviced and cleaned. Then, as daylight faded. I set off back for Paxton, eating a MacDonalds meal on the way. My return road journey was even more eventful than this morning. There had been a horrific accident involving an estate car and a lorry which had jack-knifed crushing the car coming the other way. The lorry driver was taken away in a slow moving ambulance, presumably in stable condition, but the car driver was dead and laying under a groundsheet before being put into a body-bag by all four limbs with his head dangling and taken away by an undertaker. For all this time, the road was blocked, and it was an hour-and-a-half before we could get through.
That was one man who will not be on the road again and I wondered about his friends and family who would not yet know of his fate. A fire-engine, an ambulance, three recovery vehicles and a dozen police cars coming and going all manned with up to twenty men was the extent of the cost and disruption when these accidents happen. Home late but still Daniel and a couple of his friends were there, watching the TV. However, Steven Hicks was asleep in the chair again! Some messages about the election but too late to deal with them tonight. The news featured the last set of opinion polls wherein the Tories had pulled back a little on Labour who still had the narrowest of leads with the LibDems holding on to their 20% share.