I was resuming work on my finances after six months of inactivity, talking through the survey on my Wroxham potential property and being put off by its valuation before spending an evening at Lodge Farm Diddington for a barn dance after Diana and I were given a lift by Helen and Eric Young
This was a day working at home and starting to update my financial income and asset statements for the last tax year. I am catching up on six months of inactivity on that front and had to work out my tax position. Later, I telephoned the surveyor on my Wroxham property and talk through the results of his investigation. He is still very dubious about the value being anywhere near the £165,000 asking price and now he has us wondering. We have decided to await his report and then I may have to drive up there and conduct a re-negotiation in order to proceed. This evening was the ‘Three-in-One ’ barn dance where the parishes of Paxton, Southoe and Diddington of the Reverend Peter Lewis get together in Lodge Farm Diddington barn. Today been warm but it was cold enough for a barn dance and we had a go. The turnout of 300 tickets sold (versus 260 last year) but this will be the last of Gerald’s barn dances as he is retiring from managing Peter Thornhill’s estate farm. Midway through the evening, the immaculate tractor and trailer brought in the food in the normal custom.
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A display of tickets etc. showed the history of this barn dance from 1974 to 1989. Norman Parker was there from Southoe and this grand old gentleman had his nurse with them as he is only recently out of hospital. He recently opened the Southoe Fete and is in his 90s and just had an operation for a strangulated hernia. I had a few drinks tonight, but Helen and Eric Young gave Di and I a lift with drink. Home at midnight and tackled a rowdy group of youths who were passing my home obviously the worse for wear