Sam woke up early to the sound of the hunters after the wildfowl on Crabbets Marsh and, after walking him, I laid the kitchen vinyl floor-covering until Di and the girls arrived to stay in Harnser.
This afternoon and evening Diana and I worked away at commissioning Harnser with her unpacking as I finished laying the vinyl and then assembled six kitchen stools from MFI "flat-packs"
For a change, Sam woke up early this morning at 6.20am. It could have been the full moon or the sound of the hunters after the wildfowl on Crabbets Marsh or something else entirely. At least Sam is getting some exposure to the sound of gunfire as I have also walked him up the lane to be nearer still. I got up and out earlier than of late and took advantage of the earlier start and was working on laying the kitchen vinyl floor-covering by 8.00am. It was a very tricky job laying the whole in one piece, particularly laying it into the cupboards and around the hot-water cylinder but I managed it. I had laid the bulk of it by the time Diana arrived with the girls and then finished the rest after lunch.
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Meantime Jack had popped by and I gave him another £20 for the first time in a while. I had spoken on the telephone to Alan last night and told him about the 200 greylag geese I had seen on Farmer Kettle's land and how I had called at the farm-house and been told that they preserve the shooting for a syndicate. Alan tells me that once Kettle cuts off his sugar beet tops he quickly plows the remainder in and then the geese come onto the land that we can get permission to shoot on. There are also evidently one or two mornings after Christmas each year where the Broads Authority and landowners get together and declare an open goose shoot as a cull of the geese and I look forward to that as well. I put Sam on board and then took the family to Beekays cafe for lunch and I enjoyed the steak and kidney pie.
The girls did not behave very well and nor did Sam, climbing out of the back of the Range Rover into the rear seats and getting scolded for it. He is sitting and coming to heel much better and does some dummy retrieves but is rather young for very strict obedience. This afternoon and evening Diana and I worked away at commissioning Harnser. I finished laying the vinyl and then assembled six kitchen stools from MFI "flat-packs" whilst Diana cleaned out the cupboards and packed everything away. We had a very late tea after I had taken the dog out for his exercise. I have increased his food again as he was showing signs of being hungry and then he still ate it all up ravenously! The girls helped doing a variety of small jobs and by the end of the evening we were quite well settled in our holiday home.
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