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After a very peaceful night’s rest from Stokesby and under the Bure Bridges to moor at the Great Yarmouth Town Hall quay. Coffee at Tooks, lunch at the Pizza Hut and an evening cinema trip to watch an appalling horror film with Diana
The night at Stokesby which we found very peaceful and quiet after all the building work. I was the first to rise and made the morning drinks and got things moving and then also shaved and showered ready to get The Paxton Princess underway. Debbie came and helped me at the helm and has become quite efficient at doing so these days. The longish trip to Yarmouth where, even with our early start, it was a bit tight under the Bure Bridges and so I put everything down to slide under The Haven Bridge. The harbour radio gave permission to come alongside and moor at The Town Quay and, after a complicated manoeuvre to get a ladder outside my fenders for a safer mooring against the upright quay timbers, we were all fast and ready to see Yarmouth. Coffee at Tooks, the walk to the sea front and then we set Debbie and Della to roller-skate along the sea-front to the Winter Garden whilst Diana and I relaxed by the pier.
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After a hot and humid night which prevented Diana and I from sleeping well, I rushed over to Norwich and back for electrical parts and to Beardshaws for more nuts and washers before I was just on time to take Della to see a doctor for her ear ache before we set off for Yarmouth, mooring for the night at Stokesby
It remained hot and humid all night, depriving Diana, and I of much sleep. I was awake early but then fell to sleep again until I awoke with a start, the time having passed on. To Heronshaw for breakfast with Steve; taking him up some milk and tea-bags to use. We chatted about heavy weather cruising until it was time to go out and meet Dave and Ray and then I got them all started for the day. We had intended Di taking the girls to the Horning Leisure Centre swimming but Della had her ear trouble again and so I made an appointment for her with a Doctor's surgery in Hoveton for later in the morning.
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Taking the family to Pleasurewood Hills after organising the workers who were helping to plan the kitchen unit positions and then wiring up the kitchen electrics.
At the end of a hot and humid day, this evening spent taking Diana out for a meal at the Horning Swan Hotel
I had agreed take the family to Pleasurewood Hills but only after getting the working day started. I was out quite early painting up test colour patches and doing other chores such as getting the kitchen plan laid out on the studwork and making sure that the complete layout of units would fit in place. Steve helped me for a while as I marked off the heights of the base and wall units first of all. I would have liked to have also marked the electric supply points before Ray Lond-Caulk, the electrician arrived, but he was soon at the site and looking to get started. The weather stayed fine as I showed him what I wanted to achieve and soon he was working in with David and getting his sockets and wiring in. I left four of them working on site as I drove the family off to Pleasurewood Hills and was pleased that I would see some real progress as a result.
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Loading more timber for Harnser at Horning Staithe which involved much choreography of cars boats and dinghies to reserve the access. Meanwhile the Edmunds dumper driver was arriving every fifteen minutes and spreading bark and wood chippings in our recessed drive. Di’s optician appointment went wrong but we had lunch at Oliver’s and Di did some shopping in Wroxham
I was first awake and so made morning drinks for Diana and I before getting dressed and shaved ready to start work. There was some alarm and consternation at Horning Quay when workmen arrived with yellow paint pots and started to mark out spaces for car-parking spaces just where our delivery lorry was due to stand but we managed to get them to work round us. I left the family in the boat and went to await the arrival of the Amis bargeman, Tony, at Heronshaw and to get the workman to park out of the way of the land-fill dumper truck. The barge was away from Heronshaw by 8.05am and I followed in The Jolly so that we were waiting for Steve to arrive at the staithe by quarter past.
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