Having to call the police as our Blue Peter dinghy is tampered with and then some time in our new river plot marking the boundaries on a day where a Boeing 747 crashed with 325 feared dead and more bombs elsewhere
A small lay in after a restless night, but awake to my morning tea. A little time reading this week’s Investors Chronicle and Economist, but soon time for breakfast and a nice fried one, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Then to bed again with the paper, The Sunday Times had arrived by now, but not for long. Up quickly, washed and dressed and out to the birds. The doves are still incubating well, 10 more eggs from the ducks, but I noticed that the Blue Peter dinghy had been tampered with. The bow rope had been cut, the stern rope used to moor it, and the petrol can was missing. Most of the day working on the second steamer chair and by the end of it had a good half and more stripped of varnish. Lunch with our best silver and china and of chicken and three veg. Daniel and I clear up afterwards and wash the items safely. Daniel and his friends get our old dinghy out of the water safely for future repairs and then take the Blue Peter for a trip. They ran into the Anderson brothers at the lock, who chided them about the lost fuel can and so I went up with them to ask about it. Home to more varnish removing and then tea and after, I decide to contact the police about the theft and a Constable soon visits to take the particulars.
He intends to visit the Anderson family and press them again. Some time later this evening, I entered the new plot, removed the ivy from the mature trees and surveyed the boundaries. There is a good guide from several fencing points and I shall get some white stakes to mark them off soon. The ducks away and then in to my journal and television. News today of a horrific crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, an Air India plane, on route from Vancouver to India via London, and 325 feared dead. More bombs elsewhere in the world in a depressing news summary. To bed after watching Rosberg win the Detroit Grand Prix in an eventful motor race. There are now 2 dove eggs in the nest and our hopes are high.