A cold night worrying about baby Della but then an enjoyable start to the day in Ely with a fine hot shower for Diana and a successful cruise back along the Old West to the Twenty Pence Inn for the night as Thatcher is using her Malaysia visit to foul mouth the miners and upset the locals with her vision for airline competition
Awake at six feeling rather cold and uncomfortable and Diana the same, but also having been awake a fair bit of the night worrying that Daniella might have been suffering from the cold. A silly thought as babies are much more resilient than that, but Di felt better once the heating was on and she had drunk a couple of cups of coffee. Our normal morning routine then and we sent the children off for a walk whilst we got ready. Finally we left The Lady and dropped in at the boatyard, where a sign read that they undertook all types of boat sewing work. Inside, the owner arranged for Mr Warley to call on us in an hour. We used the intervening time to walk up to Tesco’s supermarket and buy a good quantity of milk and bread for the bank holiday. Back at The Lady where Mr Warley was just arriving and we spent over an hour discussing the commission and choosing materials, for we shall now get him to do the work that the Wroxham based, Jeckles, failed to discuss with us in time. A coffee and then all to Ely town centre where I found Barclays closed for the Easter Saturday.
Then to buy my shower rail and curtain before finding the family again for a square meal at the Ely Café. After, our separate ways and, being unable to buy a new pair of mixer taps, I contented myself with a few things from the Ely boat chandlers, before meeting the others at The Lady by 3.00pm. We stopped to fill up with water and then cruised out of Ely and down the Old West River to Twenty Pence Inn. The children played on the swings and went for a walk as I fixed up the shower rail and curtains and then Diana and I had a beautiful shower – our first ever in The Lady – now that the water is also hot enough. The children to bed and we changed and have a fair meal at the Inn; me choosing whitebait and trout to follow. We miss the television, but tune in afterwards for the news. Mrs Thatcher is using her visit to Malaysia as a platform for criticising the miners, but her hosts are also very critical of her airways competition policy. The teachers are to step up their action to include exams and Oxford won the boat race (again). The weather, sunny and nice today (Barometer, 1005mb).