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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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After a night of huge thunderstorms, the rain stopped and we were able to progress work on Harnser; erecting more rafters and then going on to form the end wall of the accommodation.
This, as I was warding off the lynx and staining some of the door and window frames with the Cuprinol in the garage. Daniel was visiting for the day and I took the family into Norwich shopping
The thunder storm continued all night and it was still raining as we awoke this morning. The news was full of the storm as power lines were cut, roads were flooded and some said that it was just like wartime with the sky lit up all night with flashes. We were lucky in that the rain stopped just before we were due to start work at 8.00am, allowing the job to continue. I was around the site until mid-morning and concentrated on sorting out the timber in the barge and separating the sections left over from the previous stages from that to use for the roof. The workmen were up on the roof plates, erecting more rafters and then going on to form the end wall of the accommodation.
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With many of my workers back helping, I got them started and then I took the family off to Norwich to see MFI about the kitchen design after stopping off at the Riverside Cafe in Wroxham for coffee.
Di took the girls off to the beach at Winterton for a short trip to the seaside as me and my helpers worked on the boat-shed roof raising
Rather late back to the boat last night after watching some TV but it was so moonlit, warm and muggy I was able to put the canopy sides and back on well after midnight. Then the lay in this morning, awaking with a start to find the time after 7.00am. A bowl of cereal and drink and then quickly out to find that David had arrived early as I was unlocking the outbuildings. Alan joined him and, as they were removing and folding the barge cover, Steve arrived. This was the first week that he could work more than three days and so we started the week in high hopes of good progress. The electrician was back as well, after collecting conduit from Jewsons, and so there were four of them working away as I took the family off to Norwich to see MFI about the kitchen fittings.
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Our trip in The Paxton Princess back from Great Yarmouth to Horning after shedding the Northern Rivers Sailing Club from clinging on our side and stopping on the way at Stokesby for a seafood salad. The evening at our home moorings, the girls having baths and watching the TV/video, Diana reading and me cutting the lawn and edging it neatly.
Despite the heat, we slept well and I was the first up again. This time, I let Diana sleep in until 8.00am and used the time to write up yesterday's journal as the battery power on my portable computer gradually ebbed away. It seemed the start of another fine and sunny day and we took advantage of this by setting off before breakfast to get under the Bure and Haven Bridges as the tide begun to make. Earlier, we had some "Klingons on the Starboard Bow" as some geriatric yachtsmen from the Northern Rivers Sailing Club came alongside to rig their boats before setting out to Lowestoft. There were soon quite a few of them and they caused considerable congestion leaving harbour with all of their radio traffic. We later heard them coming back in again as, although the weather started out nice, the breeze got up into a near yachtsmen's gale to make them beat a retreat.
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