Settling back into Heronshaw, hosting a family visit to Wroxham Barns and taking Di for lunch at The Wroxham Bridge Restaurant after which we had trouble with the Range Rover that would not start. Daniel and friends ‘rescued’ us and then the afternoon mowing the lawn, demolishing old quay heading and using the flame spreader to clear the gravel drive of weeds.
A long sleep last night as, for once, we did not set the heating time-switch. I suffered a little with a headache, however, as a result. I shaved and had a bath in Heronshaw but the girls stuck to the boat's facilities. The front door of the bungalow gets ever-more stiff as the building sags and I fear that I will soon not be able to open it at all. Breakfast and then I hustled the family out for a visit to Wroxham Barns. The breeze was still a little chilly but the sun was warm and we enjoyed walking from one craft display to another. I bought another framed print by Chris Hutchins (this one of The Albion Wherry) and also a woollen hat and tie of the type that I already wear.
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We dropped the girls off back at the boat with a heap of Easter Eggs and presents to get their own lunch and then I took Diana to the Bridge Restaurant in Wroxham for a fine Easter Sunday Lunch. We enjoyed the meal, drank altogether too much wine, but then were quickly sobered-up by the shock of finding that the Range Rover would not start. I gave up eventually and we caught the bus back to Horning and telephoned Daniel to bring us another car. He arrived with three friends and Diana's Metro later and we were most grateful and gave them some tea and money for their troubles so that they could go home via Yarmouth to have some fun. Whilst at Heronshaw today, I mowed the lawn and then started to clear away some of the timber reclaimed by Amis demolishing some of the old quay-heading.
I went back and had even less success starting the Range Rover and so left the key with Broadland Motors nearby for their mechanic to have a look at it on Tuesday morning. This evening, I got out the flame-spreader and was a frightening sight burning off unwelcome vegetation from the gravel drive. Then my journal for these last two days before to bed tired with the events of the day. It was nice to see Daniel and his friends, albeit briefly, and it would have been good to have had him on board with us for longer, but his friends were needing him more. The news is full of tragedy and violence. Fatal house fires, civil war in Ethiopia, infant rape, murder and all else. I wonder why we bother to listen to it.