After a warm night aboard Paxton Princess, I scrubbed it down until it was too hot to do so after 10am. Then a visit to Wroxham Barns and on to Great Yarmouth for rides on a landau and the Pleasurebeach. A more restful evening trip on The Jolly to Hoveton Little Broad with the girls following suite after some school revision.
We had the Paxton Princess cabin windows open all night to keep cool on a warm night and even then had to shed most of our sleeping bags as well. I was awake quite early and followed Diana up to Heronshaw for my morning wash and shave. After breakfast, Diana worked with the girls making sure that they did their revision and I continued scrubbing down the boat with water and 'environmentally-friendly' detergent. It was hot much sooner than yesterday and so I was working most of the time in the heat again. This continued until 10.00am when I made the morning drinks and we relaxed for half an hour before setting off for Wroxham Barns.
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The girls were a bit of a problem, and this set Diana and I on edge and against one another which was a pity. We had more drinks on arrival and then Diana bought some clothes, the girls played on the fun-fair and we all had lunch before leaving with the heat becoming rather unbearable. To the sea breezes of Great Yarmouth to let the girls have some fun on the amusements and rides - mostly at the Pleasurebeach this time. The model village of Merrivale was next and then the walk down the rest of the seafront to the pier where Debbie and I had snacks of sea-food and ice-cream whilst Di and Della had rides on Joyland. A horse-drawn landau back along the front to our car and then back to Horning via Potter Heigham.
I had a good look at the Amis barge under the new road bridge at Potter and I reckon that it would do us fine for carting and storing our timber in if I could get permission to borrow it. A more restful evening taking The Jolly up river to Hoveton Little Broad and then doing a little work around the place whilst Di had a harder time of it getting Della to revise her work again. Debbie is doing a history project on Kimbolton Church. Della had a little row on the inflatable again this evening and, with Debbie, rowed along the dyke and were given drinks by the Dunham’s. No news this last two days and no contact with home where my telephone answering machine did not seem to be working.