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We set off for Great Yarmouth after a wet and stormy night, calling in at my parents for a nice visit before arriving at our intended hotel to find the rooms arrangements unsatisfactory until we complained and were put next door. I took a long walk on my own, the others watching TV, and then heard the news today of our football ‘fans’ being escorted home after fighting in Europe which bodes ill for lifting our football ban. The South African courts rule for freedom for once
A wet and stormy night, with thunder, lightning and torrential rain. Nevertheless, we laid in a while before breakfast and heard stories on the radio of flooding on the Thames and in the Midlands. Breakfast of wheat flakes and then out to feed the doves and talk to Pete, the gardener. I had noticed some graffiti on our fence ‘THFC’, but on closer inspection it seems it was an old inscription shown up by the rain. I still asked Pete to creosote over it whilst we are away. Final instructions about looking after the birds and then the long process of helping with the packing of our bags and suitcases, loading of the car, and locking up the house and putting the alarm on.
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A lazier dull, humid and subsequently damp day spent warding off insects as I managed to so some housekeeping on the summer house and duck house before taking Daniel fishing aboard Aquabean and surviving a fuel crisis. This as thousands of Nationalists march to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Internment, a knife attack kills one young woman and injures another and a pilot lands on the Champs Elysees in Paris today, as a protest, during a time when it had been cleared of all traffic for a film sequence.
Awoke to a dull and humid day, with an unusually large crop of insects and thrips causing a deal of discomfort. Breakfast cooked today, in line with tradition, and Debbie and Della joined me in having some fried bacon. Then I got Di to cut my hair before having a shower and dressing. A lazy day, first reading the papers, then feeding the doves before having morning coffee on the folding chairs on the front lawn.
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A better day and outing to St Ives but then, after finding little of interest in the auction viewing, on to brave the traffic congestion through Biggleswade to get to Jordons at Holme Mills where we bought layers pellets for the ducks and their wheat flakes for us and then some success fishing until hearing of the news about HM The Queen having a heart check-up. US President Reagan also came through his tests okay as the rival Ulster sectarians cause security forces and a bank siege in Finland ends up badly
A good night and more timely start to the day, as Diana brings morning tea at closer to 7.00am again. Showered and then breakfast, before opening up and going out to feed the doves, who seem to be OK these days. Then a check of the pool, adding chlorine pills, and we then all get into the Jaguar again for a trip to St Ives this time. Coffee break at Tooks, the baker, though I settle for a glass of milk! Then a look round the Ekins auction viewings, but I do not find very much. We then rush over to Biggleswade to get to Holme Mills before they closed at midday.
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A family outing on a sunny day to Bedford and then a lazy day watching televised Test cricket and then an aborted fishing trip due to Daniel’s sickness and insect bites for us both. Peter Robinson, the Unionist leader, is charged with four offences and now Ronald Reagan is undergoing urological tests as Thatcher leaves hospital with her arm in a sling! The government’s £15m loan to the Cornish Tin industry is too little too late, a West Ham/ Man United ferry football fight puts back the chances of England’s European football ban and Mugabe of Zimbabwe pronounces an all-out trade war with South Africa in retaliation for their spiteful response to the Commonwealth nations moves
A good night and woken by the morning tea and enjoyed sitting, drinking it and looking out on the river view, with the sun shining down. A shower before breakfast and then read the morning paper and reviewed a pretty thin post. The gardener had fed the doves and so was I out, bringing the car round as Diana got the girls ready for our trip to Bedford. The whole family together for the day and we enjoyed a morning drink and biscuit on arrival and then went our various ways.