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Tired from two very late nights in Norfolk and little achieved today after cooking the family a fine fried breakfast and taking three longish walks with Sam. Some time with Di with Katie Morris’s attractive Mum in mind!
I slept well enough but was still suffering from a couple of very late nights in Norfolk and the journey back when I was reluctant to get out of bed this morning. I was up by 7.30am but a peep through the curtain revealed a fat wood pigeon in the oak tree opposite and I could not resist a successful shot with my air rifle, downing it instantly. Diana was not amused as un-slipping the rifle woke her up and Della was up early, watching and saw it fall. Still, that will be tea tomorrow! A pretty inactive day; the three longish walks for Sam being about as much as I could achieve on another mild and humid day. I did cook the family a fine fried breakfast but sank into my armchair for much of the day.
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The journey back from Norfolk exercising Sam several times on the way and visiting Daniel at Philadelphia Road on my way through Norwich.
I was still early to meet Diana and the girls for lunch at The Croxton Happy Eater and then persuaded the family to join me to run Sam to the playing field.
It was a struggle to get packed up and to leave Norfolk this morning and the continuation of the humid balmy weather was a further factor slowing me up. Sam was awake before me again and then I took him for a nice walk up the Crabbetts Marsh sawdust road before putting him back in his kennel. He is settling down nicely to just two meals a day but needs more polish on his obedience work on the lead and in coming to heel. I had to clear up the boat as well as the boathouse, having used both and knowing that I would probably not be back before our trip to America and there was always the last-minute chore of disinfecting the kennel.
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The last day at Harnser for a while with Steve evaluating and connecting up electronic navigation systems; instrumental and computer. Another late night reading up on operating manuals after phoning home to find Debbie recovered and Diana still unwell
I was very late to bed again last night and then slow to rise this morning. Steven slept better on board The Paxton Princess and then came ashore to cook a nice fried breakfast for us both before I took Sam for a walk. It was a fine sunny day again, but I did not make much progress and got very little done. I did survey the boat electronics and documentation and worked out that it would be a devil of a job to connect all the systems that I had intended at the same time. After taking advice on the telephone, I opted to eventually install the Navstar 2000I interface so as to have NMEA 183 control over the Autohelm 6000 Autopilot and have the Navstar MkIII 2000P Electronic Chart Plotter and Yeoman Plotter on line during voyages.
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After an early start walking Sam, a successful working day on chart updating with Steven repairing my boat hydraulics. News from home was of Diana and both girls ill or incapacitated with injuries or flue. I was surrounded by weaklings!
Awake early and had my customary working breakfast before taking Sam out for his run. Steven was up later and cooked a nice fried meal, but I missed out on it. He settled down to working on my boat steering hydraulics whilst I completed the updating of my Admiralty Charts from the Small Craft Notices. Then, after lunch when we had both finished, we took the boat for a trial run up the River Bure to Wroxham; buying some nice beef for Steven to cook for tea. Sam joined us for the trip on a nice sunny and warm day and was very calm and well-behaved.
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