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After our new morning routine in Heronshaw we hosted a visit from the Jeckells canopy-maker and chatted to Jack and Dolly Edwards before setting off in The Paxton Princess to Horning Ferry and then up the Ant past Ludham Bridge and on to Irstead Staithe. US President Bush orders US troops and war-planes to Saudi Arabia and warships to the region and Turkey cuts off exports from Iraqi oil pipeline.
Di was up early again on and I had only just awoken when she brought me my morning tea. By now a normal routine of bath, shave and hair-wash before breakfast in the Heronshaw lounge where we put the electric fire on to take the chill out of the air. It was not that the weather had turned cold - merely that it was back to a seasonal average and we were still used to it being so hot in the days before! It started dull but continued with sunny intervals and stayed perfectly dry. I decided to relax for once, reading one of my library books; all about the history of Horning.
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After carrying on sorting the garage and adjusting its doors etc, we had a shopping trip to Norwich, buying £400-worth of ‘Harvest’ melamine ware for the boat and then registered at the local library. The UN Security Council orders a world-wide embargo on trade with Iraq.
I was up early with Diana on and washed and shaved in Heronshaw before carrying on sorting out the garage whilst the rest of the family were getting up and dressed. We had our breakfast inside Heronshaw, and it was very pleasant too. Then I returned to the boat and used my bleeper to remotely interrogate my answering machine for the messages that had been left during the last few days. Joan had left a total of hours on the machine for paying the gardener and Daniel's friend, Steve, had left a couple of messages about wanting to buy one of our trailers. By 10.00am, I had to stop work to take the family to Norwich. We dropped Diana off at an optician for new contact lenses and then, after parking the car, met her again for morning drinks and snacks at Oliver’s. a favourite watering hole of ours. Once this was over, I took the girls to the children’s library in Norwich where they are always content to stay and I went with Diana on a shopping expedition in search of some break-proof crockery for the boat. We thought that we were going to fail in this mission when we found out that the most likely shop was closed on Mondays. At my insistence, we took a look in Marks and Spencer's and found the ideal range called "Harvest" which Diana immediately fell in love with. The UN Security Council orders a world-wide embargo on trade with Iraq.
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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.
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Working in the garden on a cooler day, erecting a fence, weeding and it was mercifully cooler on today and so, after washing and shaving in Heronshaw, I was out quite early working in the garden. I erected the new fence to secure the garden, made a trap door in the shed for storage and continued weeding whilst Diana went shopping on her own this morning. Everyone by the larger dinghy to go swimming at the Nordic Leisure Centre to coincide with the hottest time of the day. Iraq announces a military government for Kuwait and EEC announces trade embargo against Iraq
She came back with an electric kettle for the bungalow and is definitely warming to the place. "I could live here", she mused over breakfast. As I was working, Daniel went out on the inflatable and I let Debbie and Della go out in the large dinghy to the shops in Horning across the river which is quite a first for them. Once we were back together, we took the dinghy as a family to have lunch at the Horning Ferry Inn and went swimming afterwards at the Nordic Leisure Centre to coincide with the hottest time of the day.
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