After a night at St Bennett’s Abbey, downstream under the Haven bridge to moor at Town Hall Quay, Yarmouth for lunch at McDonalds, and trips to Joyland, Pleasure Beach and back in a Landau before staying overnight.
Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley, stepping down after the weekend with John Smith and Brian Gould the likely successors after their defeat in the General Election.
The heating had to herald our day as we all became used to the comfort of the boat and were reluctant to leave our bunks. After breakfast on a fine morning, we set off downstream for Great Yarmouth. There was more of a breeze for the sailing yachtsmen and this was to be the forerunner of showers to come later. We cruised pleasantly down the lower Bure and then, radioing the Yarmouth Harbourmaster, obtained permission to go under the Bure and Haven Bridges and to moor up at Town Quay. I used the technique of a suspended horizontal ladder outside fenders to hold us off the vertical dock members.
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Lunch at MacDonalds and then to the sea front for some initial rides in Joyland. Debbie was reluctant at first but soon joined in. Then another long walk along the front to Pleasurebeach and some more rides there as the rain came on and the wind became quite chill. Back via horse-drawn Landau and then to the boat tired and hungry for tea. I had bought some prawns which were very tasty. We were thinking of going to see the film 'Hook' tonight but we had just missed one performance and the other was too late and so I worked on correcting my charts, checking my first aid kit, and then pumping out the rear toilet tank and re-filling with chemical to stop it smelling foul.
Then to settle down in our banks with the waves and noise from the working boats the main backdrop in contrast to the quiet and wildlife at St Bennetts Abbey the previous night. News of Labour's Leader and Deputy Leader, Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley, stepping down after the weekend with John Smith and Brian Gould the likely successors after their defeat in the General Election.