The pest controller arrived to quote for treating our garage for woodworm
The pest controller arrived to quote for treating our garage for woodworm

A very early start for our trip to Norfolk, stopping at Snetterton for breakfast before running in to traffic to make us late for our meeting with the refrigeration engineer at Heronshaw. The engineer fixed the Paxton Princess fridge and then the pest controller arrived to quote for treating our garage for woodworm.

I dropped Steve off to his boat in Wroxham before returning to wire up our boat navigational computer into the plotter and auto-pilot with Tony Martina before retiring quite tired after a fried fish dinner

It was a very early start today as I was woken by Diana before 6.00am and had to get up and ready within half an hour. I just showered, shaved and then got dressed by which time Steven Bloom had arrived and helped me load up the Range Rover. We were away before 8.30am and on our way to Norfolk. It was a clear enough journey to start with as we found little traffic and so we decided to stop just after Snetterton for a nice fried breakfast. A good, quick meal and then on our way again and things continued to go well until we approached the Norwich ring road when the traffic and road works caught up with us. I had to telephone ahead to the refrigeration company who were due to meet me at Heronshaw and say we were going to be late.

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By the time we arrived, the fitter was there and the first order of business was for him to repair the boat refrigerator. This he did by re-charging it and then discovering that the release valve was sticking so as to be the underlying cause of the problem. Steve and I had a coffee and chat after which the timber treatment contractor arrived. We showed him over the garage and shed and he gave me a price and can treat the two almost anytime that I want. This done, Steve and I drove into Wroxham to have some lunch and also to stop by his boat to get some things. He was alarmed and upset to find that his sleeping bags were not there and that his son had left the boat in a state and so he had to call home to sort him out.

Back to the Paxton Princess and, this afternoon, I wired up the navigational computer into the plotter and auto-pilot. Tony Martin of the marine electronics company arrived and we spent some time trying to complete the installation before deciding to set off on a proving trial to Wroxham Broad. We had some trouble but eventually calibrated the system and had the auto-pilot working directly from the plotter despite Tony's scepticism about the whole thing. Back to the moorings and a meal of fried fish before I spent the evening playing with my new-found electronics and writing up my journal. The end of quite a successful day and then retired quite tired to the bungalow for my night's sleep.