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After getting Della off to school after a worry, I got back to routine and some Hayling View tasks, catching up with the gardener, joining Di for a shopping trip to St Neots and morning coffee, and then repairing the shower room with skirting board and wall tiles.
Then a had a meeting by prior arrangement with Percy and John Brown about the local election campaign, setting things to rights and arranging a meeting with the Broads building control officer's office and that of the structural engineer to keep the Horning boat-shed project on the road. when next in Norfolk.
We eventually got Della off to sleep last night, her being nervous of her following day at school and getting back to her 'normal' bed. All up earlier than of late for breakfast together (except Daniel of course) and we saw the girls troop off quite happily to catch the school bus in the end. I spoke to the gardener for quite a while to get updated, did a few more things to prepare our financial affairs and then joined Diana for a trip to St Neots. On the way, I bought some materials from Eaton Socon to be able to repair the skirting board and tiling in our shower room. Coffee together in Brackenbury's and then, whilst Diana did some shopping in Waitrose, I visited the building societies and concluded that we should change our cheque account to the Norwich and Peterborough or at least open another one there.
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Home from Horning to Paxton after Broadland Motors repaired the petrol pump in the Range Rover as the weather turned very mild and warm. This after the girls had used Wroxham Library and we had morning coffee at Roy’s. Home via the Little Chef for tea and to find Paxton satisfyingly alive with LibDem election posters.
Had a nice sleep until 8.00am this morning and then used the facilities of Heronshaw to get shaved and bathed before breakfast. Then we went into Wroxham to see how Broadland Motors were getting on with the Range Rover. They had collected it from the Bridge Restaurant car park and were already working on it, with much of the car in pieces. They traced the problem to the petrol pump which had failed and this was quite a problem as it was embedded in the petrol tank which also had to come off. We left them to it and took the girls to Wroxham Library whilst we went into Roys for morning coffee and to do some shopping.
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Taking over the chair of the Ropes Hill Residents Association for the first time for a good meeting to prepare for forthcoming road repairs, failing to start the Range Rover after lunch at the Bridge Restaurant in Wroxham and then adding phone and boat davit problems to the list.
Di took the girls swimming in the Horning Leisure Centre as we ended our break on the boat. News of an increasingly lively debate between John Smith and Brian Gould in the leadership contest for the Labour Party with the Tories quietly getting on with their return to government.
Diana had to wake me again this morning and then I lay in bed for a while with Della sliding in beside me for the warmth. I went up to Heronshaw for another nice warm bath but lay there even longer so that it became a scramble to have breakfast and get ready for this morning's meeting of the Ropes Hill Residents Association at Romany next door. It was a good meeting and well-attended but, unfortunately, the Chairman and Secretary were retiring and I did not manage to escape the job of taking over the chair. This was mitigated by the others each taking on some sort of task or other and the meeting ended with all present feeling that it had been productive with preparations put in hand for the possible maintenance to the access road.
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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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