A poor start to a cold, wet and windy day as I had not set up the boat heating to start properly and then I struggled out with my scalded foot to shop for insulation in Wroxham and engine service parts in Sprowston after which I abandoned plans to work on the boat due to failing health and spirits.
I drove home via Hinchingbrooke Hospital casualty department to get my foot looked at as the bandage was quite soaked and leaking and they attended to my foot after which I arrived home to go straight to bed weak and feeling feverish and in pain.
I laid in a while waiting for the heating to come on but, the prior day ending in distress, I had not set it properly and I had to wait in vain. I dressed and went shopping in Wroxham to get the rest of the things I needed for further work on the boat. I bought insulation material to lag the boat's hot water tank and feed pipes and then drove to Sprowston, near Norwich, to the Perkins diesel engine dealer where I got the oil and fuel filters and engine oil etc needed to service the boat's engines. Coming back through Wroxham, I stopped to get some take-away lunch and I was waiting there when I started to come over quite queer. It was a cold, wet and windy day which could make anybody feel under the weather, but I felt that I had something coming on.
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I got back to the boat and looked at a few jobs, but I decided to give up in the face of failing health and spirits. I telephoned Mum to say I would not be visiting her and home to get Di to buy some more dressings for my foot. A hard time unloading and putting the boat to bed and loading up the car, with the rain lashing down (we had between 2 and 4 inches today). On the way home, I stopped off at Hinchingbrooke Hospital casualty department to get my foot looked at as the bandage was quite soaked and leaking. Interestingly, the unit was quite empty, and so they soon saw me and tended to my wound. A nurse conferred with a junior doctor and they decided to take off the remaining skin and apply a poultice of some silver-based cream before dressing it with lots of padding. I limped out to the car and drove home but needed help to get inside and to unload. I was quite weak and could not even sit in the lounge but had to go straight to bed with Della to keep me company. I was weak and feverish but eventually slept with the aid of some aspirins, fearing that I would not be able to go to London for my radio exam tomorrow.