Back to Heronshaw to see what Wroxham Builders had been doing and then retrieving The Jolly, enjoying a pheasant lunch and joining Jim and Julie Bird before an evening's rabbiting
The journey to Norfolk had been manageable and I was not too tired this morning as a result. I looked over Heronshaw and saw that the contents had been emptied into the garage so that the contractors must have been working.
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I gave Sam some training retrieving the pheasant bodies from the weekend and, whilst he was good in some respects, he was still rough with them.
Soon Jack turned up and gave me chapter and verse of what Wroxham Builders had been doing and I could give him a £20 tip and get him on his way. I took one of the hen pheasants that Sam had crushed and still plucked it and prepared it for my lunch.
Together with a selection of old vegetables that Diana had given me to bring, it made a nice meal once roasted and I was much educated by the experience. Then I turned my mind to the trailer and hauled out Daniel's speedboat from the water, using the projecting roller to get the boat over the piling.
I dumped this on the lawn and then took the trailer back to get The Jolley out of the water, ready to take this back to Paxton. I first had to take out the engine, fuel tank and other things, but it came out all right.
I had contacted the head of Wroxham Builders and met his charge-hand on site later to go over the water and power connections so that the old building would not be unsafe when it was demolished.
I had also arranged to have tea with Jim and Julie Bird before going rabbit shooting later but I put back my arrival to avoid travelling during the Norwich rush hour and so that I could walk Sam in the last bit of daylight that I had left.
I enjoyed the beef curry that Julie had prepared and that Jim served. It was rather too much of a clear and moonlight night for successfully culling the rabbits, but we got a few between us before I drove home.