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Damp and Chilly day to take off in Aquabean, collect The Lady at Buckden and cruise downstream in the raging flood to eventually make Godmanchester, where we missed the fish and chip shop before it closed and then on to Huntingdon Riverside Park for a Wimpy meal before an unsettled night on the boats.
Awake to a day slightly damp and chilly, which did not bode well for our boat trip. Down to a breakfast of toast and fruit juice and dressed after. Dan and Steve had slept reasonably well after their late night and we discussed our plans over the meal. I persuaded all that we should go downstream to St Ives, rather than upstream to Bedford – there was too little time left because of the delays and the flood water would make headway upstream very difficult anyway. The long process of loading Aquabean afterwards, for we had decided also to leave our cars at home and use Aquabean to get us all to Buckden Marina.
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A day of fine and cool weather visiting antiques shops and auctions between eventually-successful efforts to secure parts and get The Lady’s boat heating working before a family swim in the pool, by now heated to 78degF as an Ulster IRA bomb blast kills three, NHS medics get a 6% pay rise, South African police tear gas a white opposition meeting and three Liverpool militants are expelled by the Labour Party
Awake rested and enjoyed my morning tea. Down to the pool area and noted that the boiler had got the temperature back up to 74degF. A breakfast of croissants, rather too many for our better health. A dry day as I went out to feed the doves, but the river was still high with the flood. I went off to St Neots to look in at the auction, buy some office stationery and do some building society funds transfers. A chair that Di had spotted in the auction was too attacked by worm and wear, but I spotted another in Priory Antiques and bought it later for £45.
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Rainy and windy day working inside on my papers but a delightful time later swimming in the pool with Daniel and his friends as the temperature rises back up to 78degC as Kenneth baker becomes Education Secretary and other left wing ministers are appointed as the Tories are in 3rd place in the opinion polls. Another radiation leak at Sellafield and there are also men contaminated at a French reprocessing plant as £30m-worth of paintings are stolen from Sir Alfred Beit’s Russborough House in Ireland
Awake a little late to my morning tea and then I got up, unlocked the house and tested the pool temperature – a warm 74degF! Daniel, Debbie and I took the plunge and enjoyed ourselves for fifteen minutes before breakfast. A bit of a rush getting Daniel off to school, but I did not regret it. The wind rose to a high strength and it poured with rain for most of the day. The wind made it feel colder than it was and the combination persuaded me to spend the day inside, working on my papers. I did not venture out to the birds until the weather cleared and the sun came out in mid-afternoon and the doves fed hungrily. I cleaned up the pool (now at 78degF) and swam with Dan & Deb again before a tea of stewed beef a’la Diana. After, I checked Daniel’s schoolwork and then let him have an evening’s swimming with Gary, Steve and Paul playing ‘piggy in the middle’ until the evening got quite cold.