After an overnight stay moored on the Town Hall Quay in Great Yarmouth, we had breakfast in Tooks, a visit to the Toll House Museum and then eventually freed ourselves of the sailing yacht moored alongside and cruised upstream under the bridges to arrive in Horning by 5pm. Dan and Gary drove into Norwich and I took Diana and the girls for an evening walk around Horning.
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We were all a little slow to get up and about on but I enjoyed our awakening with Diana friendly in her sleeping bag for once. We embarked on our normal morning routine for showering with Gary Skinner last and not getting much of the hot water. We then went ashore quite late to Tooks for breakfast after I was delayed half an hour with a very long telephone call from Joan. There were problems at home with both the installation of a new gas boiler by the Gas Board and with the gardener who has not been turning up to do the essential tasks that I had left him. The installation team do not seem to have been very adequately briefed about the new location for the boiler and the controls and one of their operatives also put his foot through the ceiling in the kitchen which was a bit of a trauma!. We eventually enjoyed a nice breakfast and then I let Di go to do some shopping whilst I took the girls to the Tollhouse Museum. They particularly enjoyed the dungeons before we hurried back to the boat for sandwiches aboard with Diana at noon.
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Gary and Daniel arrived back at 1.00pm and we cast off at the right state of the tide from the Town Hall Quay in order to get under the bridges whilst still having a tide behind us. The sailing yacht was a bit of a pain, not wanting to start its auxiliary engine but we got out from inside it by roping round in the end. We then cruised straight up to Heronshaw, arriving at 5.00pm, and we then took all of our provisions ashore for a nice tea in the lounge. Some rare rain (for this month) then started but we were comfortable and dry under the veranda. It cleared up for me to take Diana and the girls for an evening walk around Horning as Daniel and Gary took the Range Rover into Norwich. The rest of us really enjoyed that walk, dropping in to say "we were back" to Jack Edwards and then looping round by the playthings in the playing field and back through the village to Ropes Hill Dyke. Once the lads had got back tonight, they slept in the twin beds in Heronshaw and were pleased and comfortable to do so.
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