A long walk with Sam to settle him down as he flushed a pheasant and then off for a Norwich Day, leaving him behind.
I was reading the epic tale by Cyril Jolly of Cromer RNLI Coxwain Henry Blogg's service to the "English Trader" during the war.
Back in time for me to take the girls to Cinema City to see the film "Toys". The news all full of terrorist atrocities in Northern Ireland,
It had been raining overnight again but had cleared up by the time I had woken. We had laid in again - this time until well after 7.30am - and I was the first to stir as I had become tangled up and uncomfortable in my sleeping bag. Sam was patient enough until after 8.00am and I was out with him soon after. He had been more active of late and anxious, I thought, for more food. The extra ration has given him the runs as ever and so I will have to reduce it again. I took him up the lane, across the fields and back via the village for supplies but I allowed him a good run round the field, and he put up a pheasant that had been calling earlier.
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He is quite obedient, but I have yet to get him to point rather than flush. Before Diana had the breakfast ready, I unbolted and folded the davits and then fitted the replacement anchor light onto the end of the mast. Breakfast of croissants and cereal and then a rest to read the newspaper as the girls did their chores before leaving for Norwich. I was loath to leave Sam behind but the weather was brightening and I knew that, with the load box on top, we could not have got the Discovery into the shade of the multi-storey car park for a long day out.
Almost midday before we got to Jarrold’s Coffee Shop and there Diana and I had their home-made vegetable soup and a fruit scone until the girls joined us from the library for their food. Sometime shopping in the toy department and then I took Della back to the car whilst Diana took Debbie shopping for make-up etc. I was happy to rest in the car as I was reading the epic tale by Cyril Jolly of Cromer RNLI Coxwain Henry Blogg's service to the "English Trader" during the war.
They joined us there just in time for me to take the girls to Cinema City to see the film "Toys". This was an extremely silly and rather long film of some two hours which did not live up to expectations. Back to Horning for tea and then out afterwards with Sam, this time taking Diana with us in The Jolly to the Woodbastwick side of The River Bure for a walk along Cockshoot Dyke and up to Cockshoot Broad. Quickly back afterwards as the wind from the north west was chilly and rain clouds were bearing down upon us.
The end of my English Trader book, my journal, a bath and then off to bed hoping to get a better night's sleep than my sleeping bag customary allows. The news all full of terrorist atrocities in Northern Ireland, criminal ones and missing persons in England and of international conflict where Yugoslavia is a complete mess and even the Middle East settlement showed signs of becoming unstuck.