After an early start on a rather cold and slightly showery day, , we dropped Della off at her Grandparents' house in Bar Hill on our way to Heronshaw in Norfolk. Upon arrival I repaired the old utility area floor an installed a washing machine and tumble dryer. England beat Brazil in a friendly 1-0 and only rain stopped us beating the West Indies in the second cricket test.
More publicity proving the innocence of ‘the Birmingham Six’, Relations are deteriorating in Lithuania as the fate of an estimated 1000 Red Army deserters is disputed and five Iraqi agents are arrested in a Heathrow sting trying to buy electronic triggers for nuclear bombs.
We were up early at my instigation and had packed and got ready in short order. In fact, I had loaded most things the night before which helped. We decided to have breakfast on the way and dropped Della off at her Grandparents' house in Bar Hill at 8.00am to find them both in their dressing gowns having breakfast. The journey went quite well with me trying not to speed and get too close to the car in front as Diana doesn't like that! We stopped at a Little Chef at Snetterton and had a lovely fried "early starter" breakfast which we both enjoyed. Once at Heronshaw, we unpacked the car and unloaded the automatic washing machine that we brought from home. Di was impressed with the work that I had done on the shed and in the boat-house.
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It was soon time for lunch and so we went into Wroxham and had this meal at the "Ice Cream" cafe and did quite a bit of shopping. I then made a start on the old Heronshaw utility area, under the rickety stairs, which was suffering from the problem of a rotting wooden floor and leaking roof. Once I had stripped out the floor, I established that it was actually built up on a sinking concrete foundation which was far better to block up from to form a new platform. Moreover, there was a roll of waterproof building paper in the garage and so I used this to fully waterproof the structure so that our new washing machine could sit in there quite safely. I also mended the old tumble drier and we managed to make it work well. This afternoon, I listened as I worked to the radio commentary and was pleased to hear England's football team beat Brazil 1-0 in a friendly match. It was nearly good news again from the test cricket in the West Indies but fading light and go-slow tactics by the home side deprived England of another victory and a 2-0 lead in the series, but the match was drawn.
It was rather cold today with some showers but still the weather was all right to work in. On the TV tonight was the Granada programme about the innocence of the Birmingham Six which was quite compelling viewing and went so far as to name the 5 IRA men that were the real culprits. Relations are deteriorating in Lithuania as the fate of an estimated 1000 Red Army deserters is disputed. In a Heathrow trap organised by the U.S. and U.K. authorities, five Iraqi agents are arrested trying to buy electronic triggers for nuclear bombs.