A cooler day working at Heronshaw, gardening and sitting up my shed as Di was making herself at home with a very pleasant interlude visiting Wroxham Barns with the family; shopping in the craft and clothes shops. Iraq announces troop withdrawal from Kuwait but it fails to materialise and Japan suspends Iraqi oil imports.
It was a little cooler again on as the temperature averaged only about 70degF after several days in the 80's and 90's. Di was up early and made my morning tea before going into Heronshaw for a bath which I then shared as it was available. We are now both using the basin in the large bedroom - Di for hair-washing and me to get shaved - and are getting into quite a routine. The girls were up late and then hung around later still watching their favourite TV programmes before getting dressed. I went out to continue my weeding in the garden in view of the delay and then we all had breakfast together on the Heronshaw veranda and this has now become another habit.
I worked on the garden until noon and then took all of the family off by car to Wroxham Barns. We had a nice lunch on arrival and then spent quite a lot of time (and money) in the craft shops buying everything from gifts to clothes to prints etc. It was late afternoon before we got back and then I worked in the shed installing shelves and transferring the work-bench from the garage and, with it, most of the useful tools and materials that were formerly stored there. Later, when the breeze had died down, I used up all of the weed-killer that I could find and sprayed it over the gravel that I had been clearing these last few days in the hope that the vegetation will not return for a while. I rounded off the day with a hot bath again and then noticed that Diana had set up the table in the lounge for breakfast in the morning which was nice. Iraq announces troop withdrawal from Kuwait but it fails to materialise and Japan suspends Iraqi oil imports.