Pleasurewood Hills map from 1990
Pleasurewood Hills map from 1990

After another night disturbed by the youths on a nearby hire cruiser at Oulton Broad Yacht Station, about which we complained, we set off by taxi for Pleasurewood Hills on yet another hot and sunny day today.

Lowestoft was the warmest place in Britain today at 28degC. Iraqi troops round up US and British citizens from Kuwaiti hotels for transport to Iraq and Jordon's King Hussein meets Sadam Hussein in Baghdad. 

We awoke after yet another disturbed night. This time the culprits were the crew of a nearby hire cruiser who came back drunk at 11.30pm and kept us all awake with their whooping and whistling for another hour or so. I telephoned the hire company and also tackled them direct about their behaviour and so they would feel the results of their actions from next season. I washed on the boat, but the rest of the family had showers and baths at the Yacht Station facilities when they opened at 8.00am. Diana also managed to use the washing machine there for a whitewash.

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We then locked up the boat and, after coffee at the same place as yesterday, set off by taxi for Pleasurewood Hills. It was yet another hot and sunny day today (we later found out from the weather forecast that Lowestoft was the warmest place in Britain today at 28degC) but at least it was fine for our day out. The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience, but it left us tired when we came back to the boat. The girls tried playing ponies but fell out with weariness and so Diana read Della a story after doing the ironing and I spent until very late typing up this last week's journal into the computer now we have got the shore power to avoid depleting the ship's batteries. Daniel heard from his friend Gary tonight and Gary made timely arrangements to come down by train to Oulton Broad from Cambridge to spend a few days on the boat with us and I stayed up to see him aboard. Iraqi troops round up US and British citizens from Kuwaiti hotels for transport to Iraq and Jordon's King Hussein meets Sadam Hussein in Baghdad.