After our free stay at Yarmouth Yacht Station, the cruise up the Bure back to Horning where we emptied the boat at the end of the season and dropped by Mum’s with a full load to find her down and depressed at Freda and Alf’s lack of progress at Redgrave. Home to unload hungry but pleased to be comfortable with our electric blankets.
A fair night that seemed milder than of late and we awoke to a welcome request from Debbie to help with the preparation of breakfast! The clocks had gone back last night and so we had an extra hour this morning and so surprised ourselves with the speed with which we got the boat ready to leave. This change of daylight hours also coincided with the end of the chargeable period for mooring at the Yarmouth Yacht Station and so we were not charged for our overnight stay. The cruise back to Horning went well and without incident but it was surprising just how much traffic there was on the rivers.
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We edged into our moorings at Heronshaw in time to have lunch and then set about the job of unloading the boat. We filled both of our cars with the goods as we were not only removing the things used on this trip, but also the seasons stores now that we have made our last cruise. The boat had run well but I had identified a number of items that needed attention during the winter, and these have to be organised. We left by 2.00pm and arrived at Mum's house in Stanton by 3.30pm to find her pleased to see us but more than usually depressed and down.
We tried as best as we could to jolly her along but left with the decided impression that she is now looking forward to moving in with Freda and worrying about progress on the works to make that possible. We made some tea and did the washing up and I did a few chores whilst I was there and finally left at about 5.30pm. Home eventually quite hungry and with a veritable mountain of cases, bags and black plastic bags all crammed full of possessions to be stored away. Diana tackled this whilst I went through another mountain - this time of mail - and returned the more urgent telephone calls. Then to bed tired after the days exertions and pleased for the warmth of our electric blanket after coming back to the cold house.