On an unexpectedly dry day, out with Sam to St Bennett’s Abbey for a long walk, and then time resurfacing the garden with reclaimed gravel before the family join Daniel and I in Horning.
We played a family game of Scrabble and I read my mail from home including the letter from my solicitors to the council about the prospect of appealing against their Harnser planning conditions.
A slightly better day, the drizzle failing to put in an appearance and the temperature being not too cold to get outside and get on. I was up a little earlier than usual so as to get ahead of Sam. Breakfast in bed, a wash and shave and then I took him out in the Range Rover, feeling that he had been getting bored with the same walks every day. I ended up at the St Bennetts end of the village, the other side of the church, where I could take him for a new, long walk down to where the Suffolk Water intake extracts water from The Bure. The only problem he had was running in at a field full of greylag geese but was quite obedient apart from that.
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The day working on the "corridor" behind The Harnser, clearing the rest of the vegetation and then laying a layer of gravel dug up from my covered "store pile". When first the work started, I got them to scrape off the surface with a view to saving the gravel using it later and now was the time. A very hard physical job, the gravel being very heavy by the wheelbarrow-load, but the final result was very satisfying. Daniel returned by invitation for tea this evening and then Diana and the girls arrived soon afterwards. Sam was pleased to see everyone, and the girls were pleased to see Daniel, playing a game of Scrabble which Daniel won by 555 points to Debbie's 505. Diana made a simple tea and then did her housework on the kitchen as I took Sam for a walk. Quite some mail from home which I read, including the letter from my solicitors to the council about the prospect of appealing against their planning conditions.