After getting Della off to school after a worry, I got back to routine and some Hayling View tasks, catching up with the gardener, joining Di for a shopping trip to St Neots and morning coffee, and then repairing the shower room with skirting board and wall tiles.
Then a had a meeting by prior arrangement with Percy and John Brown about the local election campaign, setting things to rights and arranging a meeting with the Broads building control officer's office and that of the structural engineer to keep the Horning boat-shed project on the road. when next in Norfolk.
We eventually got Della off to sleep last night, her being nervous of her following day at school and getting back to her 'normal' bed. All up earlier than of late for breakfast together (except Daniel of course) and we saw the girls troop off quite happily to catch the school bus in the end. I spoke to the gardener for quite a while to get updated, did a few more things to prepare our financial affairs and then joined Diana for a trip to St Neots. On the way, I bought some materials from Eaton Socon to be able to repair the skirting board and tiling in our shower room. Coffee together in Brackenbury's and then, whilst Diana did some shopping in Waitrose, I visited the building societies and concluded that we should change our cheque account to the Norwich and Peterborough or at least open another one there.
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Once home, I had a meeting by prior arrangement with Percy and John Brown about the local election campaign. We set things to rights in around an hour and a half and, with time to spare before lunch, I set to and repaired the swimming pool shower room. I replaced the rotten skirting board, removed by the plumber when repairing the shower, and, after lunch, re-tiled the affected area so that, after grouting and re-decoration, we could re-commission the swimming pool for the girls. Many telephone calls later in the day with people trying to get me involved with one thing and another but I politely and firmly declined. I did call both the building control officer's office and that of the structural engineer to try to arrange meetings with them next Tuesday to keep the Horning boat-shed project on the road. Later, I updated our financial statements and tried keying the information into my database but found that Daniel had mislaid his account details which rather exasperated us all. To bed on time.