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Working on at Heronshaw as Steve arrived to help, continuing to fill the skip and amending the piling plan to incorporate the Amis recommendations. Then rushing back to get to my last Local Government Consultation meeting, this time in Huntingdon.
As John Major calls a General Election, which I thought the worst mistake of his (short) career. The stock exchange was falling sharply and now no longer any chance of an interest rate cut.
After sleeping overnight in Heronshaw, I was out early to continue filling the skip, having arranged its replacement with a larger empty one this morning. Steve arrived later in the morning, the skip having been exchanged, and he took over from me and carried on filling it up. The Amis crew came with the piling machine and soon had it set up and working. I had a chat with Steve about the lay out of the piles and then decided to add the extra two that Mr Amis had suggested and then also to even the spacing of the piles in the boathouse section; standardising then on a spacing of 2500mm instead of some being at 3125mm and others at half of that.
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After a good night’s sleep at Heronshaw, there followed a busy day organising the piling and building regulations application for my new Harnser boat-house as the day ended with the Amis piling crew and equipment on a bare and in two vans. We filled a small skip with rubbish by the end of a day clearing up.
The reaction to the budget did not look favourable this evening, with the city worried about the level of the government borrowing requirement and no reduction in the standard rate of income tax
I had a good night's sleep after several of insufficient benefit and this despite the fact that Heronshaw was very cold with the weather turning quite chilly. I was out early to use the string to highlight the lines of the piles and then along came Amis and I discussed the drawings with him and explained what I wanted. He was keen on an extra two piles across the centre of the main building and did query the larger than usual spacing along the boat-house part which I found worrying. Then a shopping trip to get some tools and supplies from Jewsons so as to be able to start clearing the corner dump of the site and let the skip-carrying truck in. I also drove over to Cromer and gave in my building regulations application and paid the relevant fee.
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Rushing over to Heronshaw with Diana to re-do the marking out for the new boatshed, annoyed that Steve had not turned up as planned so that I had to leave early to take Di back without time to complete the job. An evening writing up my notes and letters for Amis and the NNDC
Decided to take Diana with me and then rushed over to Norfolk so as to re-do the marking out; now that I had relocated the boat-house to leave a metre-and-a-half to the neighbouring boundary. I was due to meet Steve there to help me but he was late after dropping by his friend Derek's factory in Norwich and getting interested in a new computer programme.
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The entire day working on my new boathouse plans, designing the roof trusses and the piling plans, printing out copies for NNDC and the structural engineer.
Spent the entire day working on my plans for the new boathouse at Heronshaw, with this work becoming urgent as the piling contractor was due to start and I had to decide where these piles were to go! I worked out the plans of the roof trusses and then a section through the boathouse. I was awaiting a site plan off of Steve's computer but, when it came, it was not sufficient and so I then proceeded to map out a plan on my own machine and printed it out. Worked late printing out copies for the North Norfolk District Council and the structural engineer advising builders George Mixer.