This started as a difficult day with Della waking us and then Di taking exception to being called. Debbie completed her first experiment with her electronics test set and then settled down with Della to do a jigsaw.
We set off for South Walsham Playing Field to play tennis with Debbie and give Della another ride on her bike. At Heronshaw, workmen had been forming the roof hip and framing out the dormer
Diana and I were awoken by Della walking about and wanting to go to the toilet and then, when I suggested to Diana that she get the morning drinks after several days of me doing it, this started an argument that lasted most of the morning. She accused me of waking her up unnecessarily and then stomped off, leaving me to keep the girls happy for most of the morning. Debbie completed her first experiment with her electronics test set and then played the game with Della before they both settled down to doing a jigsaw. I had been applying the first coat of wood stain to the Iroko windows but I stopped so as to be able to go out with Diana when she returned from the florists. She had been sending a bunch of flowers via Interflora and a card as she had forgotten her Mum's birthday until this morning.
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Coincidentally, the news from her was that an appointment with a ENT doctor had identified that she had both an infection and a form of asthma so that it was just as well that we had got her to have the examination and tests. When I had cheered Diana up, I took her and the girls out to try to go to a library in Wroxham and then South Walsham without success (Wednesday being their closed day) but we had a nice lunch there and then took advantage of the South Walsham Playing Field to play tennis with Debbie and give Della another ride on her bike. It had turned into a nice sunny day and there were a host of youths and attractive teenage girls from the nearby college taking their lunch-time recreation in the park as well. Back to Heronshaw for the rest of the afternoon where the workmen had been forming the roof hip and framing out the dormer.
We had a set-back when the window supplier arrived with incorrect dormer windows, having jumped the gun and got them made to provisional dimensions, but otherwise the work had gone well. I have seen two ways of improving the boat-house in the future: one makes the large living area upstairs into two rooms and the other takes advantage of the space in the upper boat-house to form an attic room with two bunks. During the building work now we will put in wiring and stud-work to enable these to be done easily in the future. Time this evening continuing my wood-staining until I had finished the first coat on all of the downstairs door and window frames. James Dunham came round this evening for a chat and it seems that his sea voyage across the North Sea was difficult but not as traumatic as spoken of.