A lightening home visit, stopping off at Redgrave to find both Mum and Freda with bad legs; Mum is still bed-bound with her leg swollen and Freda is also limping with hers weeping and bandaged; giving us serious cause for thought. The dash home and there we found Daniel in charge of a very green swimming pool.
Then off to Cambridge to collect a water cylinder from Rigeons and back to Horning via Norwich to collect the remainder of the electrical fittings from Eyre Electrical. The stairs were delivered today in sections and will be assembled tomorrow
A long and tiring day that started with me getting up early as usual and working before the others arrived. I hewed away at the "monument" that the roofers had left behind (a pile of tile off-cuts solidified with discarded mortar) with the old pick-axe. Though I did manage to break the pick-axe in the process, the pile was removed and buried to strengthen the built-up ground. Steve did not arrive as planned and I had to telephone him to find out that he had been delayed which I was not very pleased about. Then, having briefed the workmen, I gathered the family and our belongings together and set off for home where they were to stay, and I was to return to Norfolk.
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We stopped off at Redgrave for a flying visit to deliver presents for Mum and Freda and monitor how things were. This experience was very depressing. Mum is still bed-bound with a swollen leg and Freda is also limping with hers weeping and bandaged. Diana and I were given serious cause for thought. The dash home and there we found Daniel in charge of a very green swimming pool which had Diana upset as his lack of care despite the money we had been sending him. I was glad to see him, however, and felt that he and Angela had looked after the house nicely otherwise. A telephone call to ascertain the availability at Rigeons of a water cylinder and then off to Cambridge to collect it.
The return to Norfolk by fast driving, arriving in Norwich in time to collect the remainder of the electrical fittings from Eyre Electrical and then on to Horning to find Steven still staining away at the cladding. I had been following the rain all the way and had overhauled it by now but it soon started here and, after helping Steve to cover up, we went for a drink and then shopping for supplies in Roys, bringing fish and chips home to eat for tea. At the end of such a day I only had energy for my journal and the TV news before retiring early to bed, still haunted by the plight of Mum and Freda. The stairs were delivered today in sections and will be assembled tomorrow and the workmen completed quite a bit more of the stud walls and lining as well as boxing in the other wing of the boat-house as we progress.