Taking over the chair of the Ropes Hill Residents Association for the first time for a good meeting to prepare for forthcoming road repairs, failing to start the Range Rover after lunch at the Bridge Restaurant in Wroxham and then adding phone and boat davit problems to the list.
Di took the girls swimming in the Horning Leisure Centre as we ended our break on the boat. News of an increasingly lively debate between John Smith and Brian Gould in the leadership contest for the Labour Party with the Tories quietly getting on with their return to government.
Diana had to wake me again this morning and then I lay in bed for a while with Della sliding in beside me for the warmth. I went up to Heronshaw for another nice warm bath but lay there even longer so that it became a scramble to have breakfast and get ready for this morning's meeting of the Ropes Hill Residents Association at Romany next door. It was a good meeting and well-attended but, unfortunately, the Chairman and Secretary were retiring and I did not manage to escape the job of taking over the chair. This was mitigated by the others each taking on some sort of task or other and the meeting ended with all present feeling that it had been productive with preparations put in hand for the possible maintenance to the access road.
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It was quite late in the morning by the time that I had chatted further to my neighbours and got back to Di and the girls. I then took them to lunch at the Bridge Restaurant in Wroxham where our Range Rover was still looking rather forlorn. The staff helped me push it out of the way and I rely on Broadland Motors being able to repair it in the morning. This afternoon, Di took the girls swimming in the Horning Leisure Centre and I tried unsuccessfully to repair my portable telephone which no longer seems able to take power from the boat. Tea and then an attempt to repair my port davit winch, jammed with cable, which was also thwarted by the fall of dusk despite my best efforts with a torch.
Thus ended today, the last full day of our boating break which has been a nice change despite the weather but which has also left me with more jobs to do. My call to the structural engineer today established that he is going to be away for a week and so my new boat-shed project will have to wait that long. News of an increasingly lively debate between John Smith and Brian Gould in the leadership contest for the Labour Party with the Tories quietly getting on with their return to government.