Tidying up the gardens
Tidying up the gardens

On a cold and frosty day, and after an unsettled night, I tended to Sam and then tidied up the Harnser gardens before phone and organising things such that I had the right materials to fit out the larder as an excellent storage place.

Whilst walking Sam around Crabbetts Marsh this evening I was fascinated to see how the backwaters were thick with small fish, crammed into there to avoid the level of salt in the main stream.

An earlier start after an unsettled night and out at 7.30am to walk the dog. His diet has got out of kilter again after I had increased his rations to a cup-and-two-thirds for each of three meals a day. I had to reduce it to a cup-and-a-half as he had got the runs again! Otherwise, he behaved well and was obedient and patient in the car for a longish trip to Norwich. I tackled the grounds again, tidying up the front of Harnser, until it was time to phone a range of people about our planning problem and then to organise the fitting out of our larder. I was shopping for the better part of the morning and put more money into the Abbey National at Diana's request amongst other things.

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I exchanged our unusable 800mm kitchen base and wall units for some that were 600mm wide with some wire storage trays thrown in. Later, I was to fit these into the larder, thus fitting it out with a huge amount of storage. As the result of my telephone calls all day, I decided to brief Ekins to handle our appeal and application to vary the conditions and so informed Taylor-Vinters accordingly. Tomorrow I shall welcome Daniel here to do some work on his boat and then on Thursday Steven will arrive for us to look at The Paxton Princess.

Today was cold with a frosty start but the day was calm and the water was dropping again. Whilst walking Sam around Crabbett's Marsh this evening I was fascinated to see how the backwaters were thick with small fish, crammed into there to avoid the level of salt in the main stream. I am sure that this regular phenomena that accompanies high tides accounts for the large population of herons that Horning in particular and the broads in general supports.