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Having left the dressing off my foot to help it heal, I then had an unexpected visitor who carried me off to Colne, near Earith, to look at a site for possible planning but called into St Ives for Imray charts to make good use of the time. Daniel needed another two hours practise before his driving test in the morning and some other chores before I tried to liven up a rather dull Environmental Services Committee of HDC in Huntingdon in the evening.
I enjoyed a good night's sleep and relaxing start to the day for the first time for a few days. I decided to leave the dressing off my foot for a few hours and spent this morning working in my office on paperwork and my journal. Took a late lunch which I had to make myself as Diana had gone to Cambridge and then I ate a ham salad and organically grown pear for dessert which was a healthy meal at least. I worked on this afternoon, until brought up short at 2.00pm by a visitor who I had forgotten was coming.
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An early morning panic as Daniel’s computer was corrupted until I had converted his school GSE project file and open it on mine for him to work on, which he then did. Di took him to school with the edited work after he had missed his bus and I had a late breakfast in my dressing gown! A rush to get my Focus newsletters out to the deliverers and then to help Helen Young edit her Village Hall Committee work! Late to the surgery to have my foot redressed and then eventually time for my journal before very tired to bed. The government in disarray sees the pound sterling and Gilts falling as consumer spending soars
I was rudely awoken at 7.00am by Diana and Daniel who came with the news that Daniel was unable to make his report corrections because his computer operating system was corrupted. I went in to have a look but could do nothing there and so we found a way of using my Mac to convert the IBM-compatible files so as to work on the report in my office. Then I had to re-format the results and get the text into some state for working on and then help Daniel key in the changes as he did the diagrams. There followed a couple of hours of pure hell until we had finished when the results were actually quite commendable. We hope that he will get a good mark because the investigation itself had gone very well. Diana then took him to school as he had missed the bus. The things that children put you through! I hope he has learnt by this experience, but I fear he has not.
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The Bloom family arrived early this morning to collect Steve’s trailer and also to look at The Lady with a view to buying it when I sell it at Easter. I got Daniel to clean the car on a quieter day of weather as I organised my FOCUS deliveries, but I had to finish it for him. Late this evening, Daniel admitted that his Physics essay was a formal ‘A’-level assessment and, it reading so poorly, I sat up until 1am marking it and suggesting improvements.
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I slept well after all my physical exertions of yesterday and was slow to rise. The trouble was that Steve Bloom was obviously keen to get on and collect his trailer because he called at 9.00am to see if it was all right to drop in. This meant that we had to rush our breakfast and my bath and shave, but we were ready when just about the whole of the Bloom family arrived later. He surprised me again by asking to see The Lady as they might be interested in buying it. We went down and uncovered it from its winter slumbers and put the heating on and showed them round. They seemed to like it but I asked them to take their time as I was not planning putting it on the market until before Easter. I got Daniel down to cleaning the car despite his reluctance and I did a few outside jobs before lunchtime.
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After breakfast of toast and marmalade on another cold and frosty morning Steve and I attacked the engine maintenance in earnest, replacing the final fuel filters, and insulating the hot-water tanks and feed pipes. Jack came around and will bring his chain-saw to help remove the willow trees.
To Wroxham for lunch after which Steve set off for Wroxham to return his boat to his moorings and I resumed work on the Paxton Princess after which I returned to Wroxham to collect Steve and brought the boat trailer for the "Jolly-Boat" that had come with Heronshaw, loading it on to his boat's trailer and towing them both back home afterwards.
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We awoke on a very cold and frosty morning and there was a layer of ice on the slipway. The water level was still high but dropping now that the wind had changed direction. I got us up quite early and made a breakfast of toast and marmalade with tea to drink and warm us up. We cleared away the things and then decided to attack the engine maintenance in earnest. We took off and replaced the final fuel filters and got away without having to bleed the fuel lines which was a relief. We had finished this by 9.00am and then I got under cockpit floor and insulated the hot-water tanks and feed pipes which was quite a job as well.
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