Then we all spent the afternoon at the Seaside at Winterton with Daniel helping the girls to make sandcastles and bury them in the sand
Then we all spent the afternoon at the Seaside at Winterton with Daniel helping the girls to make sandcastles and bury them in the sand

After a morning continuing the task of staining the rest of the facia board and discussing the roof design with the workmen, we took Daniel to the Wroxham riverside cafe where he had a scrambled egg and bacon breakfast and we had morning drinks. 

Then we all spent the afternoon at the Seaside at Winterton with Daniel helping the girls to make sandcastles and bury them in the sand. The Olympics did not go well for Britain today with only one bronze medal to show for the efforts of the national athletics team.

The weather had changed overnight and became breezy with showers threatening but I was still out early and continuing the task of staining the rest of the facia board. I discussed my latest design thoughts with the two workmen when they arrived and from this decided that I would fit Superlite tiles and leave the question of lining the underside of the open boat-house roof until afterwards as the roofers were confident that the birds would not get up through the felt overlaps. Just about managed to complete this staining before Daniel arrived at 10.00am and we all went with him to Wroxham riverside cafe where he had a scrambled egg and bacon breakfast and we had morning drinks.

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He had brought this last two weeks' mail and in it was a large cheque for the children’s' trust redemption of 1992 Gilts. I had to get this paid in for them but the consequent visit to the post office went far from well. The inpayments would have taken two of the trusts well over the £25,000 maximum investment limits and so, after much delay and consideration, I rearranged the inpayments to divide the investment so that they all kept within the limits. All this whilst the Monday morning Wroxham Post Office queue grew and stretched right out of the shop! Off to Jewson’s where the family had another long wait whilst I ordered the roofing tiles, felt and some other things. Back to Heronshaw and then we all drove off to Winterton to have an afternoon on the beach.

It had rained in heavy showers whilst we were in Wroxham but cleared up this afternoon to become warm if windy. Daniel helped the girls build sandcastles, then to excavate a large hole in which first Della and then Debbie were buried up to their armpits. Their last game consisted of digging tunnels under a mound of sand and joining them up in the middle. Back to Horning after the last of several visits to the beach cafe and the rest of the afternoon and evening re-organising some more timber that had arrived and staining some of it. The men had made and fixed the cut-down king-post truss at the river end of the boat-shed and started to form the hip and overhang of half a metre that I had requested for keeping the rain off of any boat just inside. The Olympics did not go well for Britain today with only one bronze medal to show for the efforts of the national athletics team.