With Di washing the sleeping bags and shopping in Wroxham, I completed my navigation course planning and attended the RHDRA meeting next door, which agreed action on the questions of road maintenance, dyke dredging and unauthorised boating and fishing in the dyke. I then collected the family and took them to the Bridge Restaurant, Wroxham, for our Easter Sunday lunch.
This afternoon, I took Alf with me to Stanton to collect Freda and we stopped for an hour to have a cup of tea and chat with Mum before setting off back. On the return journey, we went via Redgrave to look at the village shop that they are interested in buying for which I am advising a low offer. I got back in time to take Diana to the cinema in Norwich to see the film "Driving Miss Daisy".
This was a fine day, but still with that chilly wind to cope with. Diana went off to Wroxham to wash the sleeping bags and other things and I did the final corrections to my charted courses before getting ready for the Ropes Hill Dyke Residents Association meeting at 10.30am next door. It was reasonably-well attended and, though very informal, a good meeting. We discussed and agreed action on the questions of road maintenance, dyke dredging and unauthorised boating and fishing in the dyke. They were pleased to see me there as the previous owner of Heronshaw, John Porter, ploughed his own furrow and did not take part in the residents' association meetings.
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Once this meeting had finished, I collected the family and took them to the Bridge Restaurant, Wroxham, for our Easter Sunday lunch. I had telephoned to book earlier which was just as well as others had told me that they had difficulty getting in anywhere. This afternoon, I took Alf with me to Stanton to collect Freda. Although this meant that she was returning a day earlier than planned, it was far easier for Freda who would have needed two trains, a taxi and a car otherwise. In return for Mum, I said that I would drop in with the family tomorrow. The journey there was very quick and straightforward, and we stopped for an hour to have a cup of tea and chat with Mum before setting off back. On the return journey, we went via Redgrave to look at the village shop that they are interested in buying. The village is pleasant, growing and prosperous and the business attracts little competition and would be a good investment at the right price. There seems to be one strategic problem to me which is car parking and traffic which will rear its head in the future. The question of price is crucial as their plans might change due to force of circumstance and they must be able to recover their money. I am advising a low offer in view of our cash-customer status and trying to quell Freda's enthusiasm. I got back to Heronshaw rather later than I had planned because of all this but I was still in time to take Diana to the cinema in Norwich to see the film "Driving Miss Daisy". We thoroughly enjoyed this tear-jerking presentation, which was well written, acted and directed. By the time we got back, the children, including Daniel, were already in bed and fast asleep and we tried not to disturb them.