After a good night’s sleep at Heronshaw, there followed a busy day organising the piling and building regulations application for my new Harnser boat-house as the day ended with the Amis piling crew and equipment on a bare and in two vans. We filled a small skip with rubbish by the end of a day clearing up.
The reaction to the budget did not look favourable this evening, with the city worried about the level of the government borrowing requirement and no reduction in the standard rate of income tax
I had a good night's sleep after several of insufficient benefit and this despite the fact that Heronshaw was very cold with the weather turning quite chilly. I was out early to use the string to highlight the lines of the piles and then along came Amis and I discussed the drawings with him and explained what I wanted. He was keen on an extra two piles across the centre of the main building and did query the larger than usual spacing along the boat-house part which I found worrying. Then a shopping trip to get some tools and supplies from Jewsons so as to be able to start clearing the corner dump of the site and let the skip-carrying truck in. I also drove over to Cromer and gave in my building regulations application and paid the relevant fee.
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Whilst I was waiting for the skip to arrive, I wandered off to Mr Howlett and managed to obtain his plans for the boat-house that was similar to mine and also a list of the timber that he used for costing his project. The Amis piling crew was at Heronshaw on my return, having arrived by river and with two vans containing piling equipment. I gave them another copy of the instructions and explained the task to them as well and then I made myself some tea and turned on the radio for the budget speech. No reduction in the standard rate of income tax which was a surprise.
Then the skip arrived and I this before I had a chance to open up the fence. I need not have worried as it was a small one and quite manoeuvrable and managed to drop the skip right next to the rubbish tip. I worked on and just about filled up the skip with rubbish and then drove out to make a variety of organising telephone calls and to get Steven to join me tomorrow. Worked late again making notes for my overdue diary and then studied the plan before going to bed. The reaction to the budget did not look favourable this evening, with the city worried about the level of the government borrowing requirement and the public seeing it as an anti-climax.