A very windy and gusty day with heavy showers making both Horning Regatta and Fete very difficult affairs and seeing a white boat sunk by a hire cruiser.
Lunch at The Olde Tea Shoppe, shopping in the village and some work in the garage for me completed our day as I also sorted out my Dad’s old carpentry tools.
The news is still full of the former Yugoslavia in general and Sarejevo in particular
It was very windy and gusty today with heavy showers making both Horning Regatta and Fete very difficult affairs. I was out later with the dog and, during my visit to the village for supplies, saw the old ladies struggling in and out with the racks of clothes etc. It is interesting to see that all of the people involved in organising the fete are over 70 and the same old "Gay Gordons" type of music prevails over the public address; only the speed of the old tape recorder gets slower and slower year by year!
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We had gone across in The Jolly to see the festivities and were unfortunate to time our passage with a race start for the "white boats". The wind was gusting and the sailing boats were all over the place tacking at the start; ducking and diving for position with hire craft an additional obstacle. I heard later that one white boat had been sunk by a hire cruiser when it caught the main sheet and dragged it under. Sam was quite good today and we took him in the dinghy with the family and he behaved well, sitting in the front. Lunch at The Olde Tea Shoppe, shopping in the village and some work in the garage for me completed our day.
I continued the task of sorting out the remaining materials from building Harnser and then turned out my Dad's old tool boxes, laying out his poor set of tools which made me feel sad. It was always his wish to finish his days making things with carpentry and lathes but he ended up looking after Mum and then suffering himself. The irony is that those tools would have hardly allowed him to achieve very much anyway. The girls found the Dunham daughters in Ropes Hill Dyke today and enjoyed playing with them in the motor dinghies and inside with games.
I fell quite tired and watched some televised cricket in the afternoon and then programmes on dinosaurs and insecticides in the evening before updating my journal. The news is still full of the former Yugoslavia in general and Sarejevo in particular and I wish there was more home news reported which I find more interesting. I continue to suffer from gnat bites which are Horning's speciality but at least my heel is getting better making walking more comfortable.