A visit home via Redgrave to spend several hours with Mum, Freda and Alf both together and apart. Mum was recovering but being cantankerous and Freda too-easily provoked by her remarks about Alf, in particular.
Eventually home to find Debbie changing after using the swimming pool and both her and Della pleased to see me and I tried to spend some time with each of them this evening.
I was awake at 7.00am but then it took me a very long time to get ready to go home after a summer in Norfolk. My plan was to drive early to Paxton and I telephoned Diana accordingly but then she told me of another letter from Mum. Mum sounded depressed and unhappy with Freda and her condition and so I decided that I needed to make a visit to them both at Redgrave today. As Mum does not get up until late this left me time to go into Wroxham to collect the latest photographs and then also collect the rest of the security components that I needed from Norwich on the way through. I was a little sad to be leaving Horning on another beautiful Norfolk autumn morning with the sun and mild weather too good to leave behind.
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Once at Redgrave, I spent several hours with Mum, Freda and Alf both together and apart. They argued in front of me about Dad, the past and all else which was depressing for me as well. The trouble is that Mum is cantankerous and Freda too-easily provoked by her remarks about Alf, in particular. The better news was that Mum seems to have recovered sufficiently to contemplate returning home to Stanton for a while which will relieve both her and Freda. This duty done, I drove on to get home just before tea-time to find Debbie changing after using the swimming pool and both her and Della pleased to see me. I tried to spend some time with each of them this evening, encouraging Debbie to do her piano practice and Della to read her books aloud for me to hear. Not a terrible amount of paper work to do but we are expecting Mr and Mrs Brickwood (Angela's parents) to come on Tuesday evening and so I shall stay here until Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.