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Training Sam with Jim and his dog Ben and visiting his family homes and relatives and driving home to find Halloween ruined in Ulster where the latest atrocity involved two masked gun-men bursting into a pub and shouting "Trick-or-Treat" before killing seven people and seriously injuring nine others with machine guns.
I had today set the radio alarm so that, not only did it switch on at the right time, but that the volume was set so that I could actually hear it! This was just as well as I was tired and needed the call. I ran Sam across the stubble fields again for his morning walk but, the wood pigeons getting up in droves earlier and disturbing the game, he quartered well but there was nothing to find. The task of packing up and loading up then became something of a rush as I also had to see to the boat, the house next door and all else.
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After attending the Colin Facey boating auction, I took the family for a snack at The Horning Tea Shoppe, watching international Rugby Union and League matches with Great Britain beating the All Blacks.
Steve and Mary Bloom both getting jobs and Jim Bird agrees to do some dog training together
I had set the alarm radio to wake me up this morning but had inadvertently turned the sound down so that it was Sam and the seagulls that woke me in the end! A shorter walk than usual and then out with Sam in the back of the Land Rover to Horning Ferry. There Colin Facey had arranged the first of what was planned as a monthly series of boat auctions. It was a fine but chilly and dull day and attendance was reasonable but there was not a great deal of money around and few of the boats were sold. I had successfully bid for a sailing dinghy, but they would not sell it to me as it had failed to reach its reserve. This came as a disappointment in view of the auctioneer saying it was close and would ask the owner if my bid was acceptable. Just bought a few buckets and a lugsail and spars.
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After an early walk with Sam, then to Stalham early enough this morning for a haircut and then to Norwich and to The Theatre Royale to see the matinee performance of Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen from Veronna", the cinema being full.
Two documentaries, one on the plight of giraffe now that Western "civilisation" interferes with the water use and supply in Africa and another about the toxic agents released in the Gulf War.
Later to bed than of late and more reluctant to get up as a result. A good walk with Sam once I was ready and I had him quartering the stubble field and trying to point properly - even if it was a false point and the game had flown away! Back for a rest and Diana joined me as yesterday but, unlike then, we made a move and got to Stalham in time for me to get my hair cut. Lunch at our favourite cafe in that town and then, stopping off at Horning to unload Diana's shopping and let Sam off, before driving on to Norwich hoping to see the film "Secret Garden".
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A good training day for Sam as we walked around Horning and stopped off at Horning Tea Shoppe for morning drinks and snacks. Shopping at Latham’s in Potter Heigham and off to Norwich for Debbie’s skin treatment as it rained for much of the day.
Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs confirm her Downing Street rule was a process of domineering dictate and the Sein Fein President, Gerry Adams, has angered all and sundry by helping to carry the coffin of the I.R.A. bomber
I had planned a haircut for today, but it was not to be for, when we arrived in Stalham at 12.15, we found that the barbers had already closed at noon for its early closing day. The day started with me just beating the alarm radio by waking before it turned on. I still had to wash and shave but got out in time to prevent Sam fouling his run. In fact, he had a good day of obedience and co-operation and was rewarded by spending much of the day in the car with us. As I walked him around Horning this morning, we were met by Alan Giddings who stopped in his mini and chatted for a while. He told me that both he and David were currently working on extending the buildings in Wroxham Barns where the petting farm idea had really taken off.
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