18th December 2009

Tam, Cyril and Will's last day. There's been 8 inches of snow overnight and I have a cheque for Tam's final payment to deliver. I decide that biking is unwise so I'll catch a bus from Martlesham Tesco's. The bus stop seems eerily quiet though a route 66 appears; after a while I decide that I could stand for hours waitning for a bus so I'll walk to Woodbridge. Its a beautiful walk, very little traffic, unfortunately the snow plough has been up the back road down to the Red Lion so the road is fairly clear but there's over a foot of snow on the footpath. I'm a wimp; I meet a cyclist on a recumbent tricycle near the fish and chip shop, he is pushing his trike though as the wheel is spinning on the ice as he goes up hill.

At the DYC there's still quite a bit of tidying up to do, I'm hoping that we'll finish by mid afternoon and I'll take Tam, Cyril and Will for a beer at the Anchor. John Davis comes down and though he's happy with the work done he notices that we've missed some cross braces. Probably my fault as I failed to order timber for them, if I had we'd have been looking at a pile of timber wondering what we'd missed. As it was we had no more timber so we assumed we'd finished...well you would wouldn't you?

In the event more snow is forecast and everyone decided to go home at 3.00pm so as not to be stuck in Woodbridge. The only one certain of getting home was Tam as he commutes by boat so he's OK unless the river freezes.

Overall I feel that Tam and Cyril have worked hard and done well. The job was a big one and quite close the limits of their equipment. They worked in some horrible weather as well as some really lovely days and I think we only lost 1 or 2 days because of high wind.