Di visits Harnser as I finish off installing the masterboard wall lining and the electrics are completed I treated Di to a drink and meal of roast chicken at The New Inn.
I then took her to Norwich to see the latest Clint Eastwood film which I enjoyed but she found rather too violent
There was a huge deluge of rain this morning as a thunderstorm passed through and so, although I was up very early, I had to wait before going out. My task today was to start on fixing the remaining Masterboarding, which lined the walls. There was all shapes and sizes of off-cuts in the pile and so I proceeded by cutting the scraps into sections suitable for filling the eaves and then using the larger pieces to actually board the remaining areas in the kitchen and living room. Quite tiring and dry work and so I rested a while at lunchtime, and it was then that Ray returned to finish off the electrics.
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In fact, there was not much to do and he was through in half an hour but still succeeded in getting an electric shock. We thought that there was no feed to the boat-shed lights, but his experience proved us both wrong! I paid him off and thanked him for his efforts now that was another job done. Diana arrived in mid-afternoon having left the girls in Daniel's capable hands. She had done some shopping in Norwich en route and then I got her to do some more for me in Wroxham and to transfer some money within my building society accounts. I treated her to a drink and meal of roast chicken at The New Inn and then took her to Norwich to see the latest Clint Eastwood film which I enjoyed but she found rather too violent.
Back to Heronshaw in yet more rain at the end of a very wet day and then my drinking chocolate, my journal and then to bed, attempting to share my sleeping bag with Di for the first time. Jack came round today and told me that the Potter Heigham boat auction was this coming Thursday, and so I will try to go. I telephoned Steve to tell him of this, but he will be busy which is his hard luck. After the French "Pettit-Oui", Major has called a Euro summit and the idea of him seems to be to stall proceedings but the other European countries want to proceed regardless. Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand are meeting in Bonn to make their plans at this moment.