12. THEY TOOK OUT A MAP AND LOOKED UP PLACES.
DAY—SATURDAY & PLACE –KINGSTON WAS DECIDED
AS A START. HARRIS AND JIM WOULD TAKE THE
BOAT FROM WEYBRIDGE AND GEORGE WOULD JOIN
THEM THERE.
13. THEY DECIDED AGAINST CAMPING WHEN HARRIS
MENTIONED WHAT THEY WOULD DO WHEN IT
RAINED. THEY THOUGHT ABOUT IT THIS WAY.
14. THEY IMAGINED MORE OF DRAWBACKS AND
FINALLY DECIDED TO CAMP OUT ONLY IN GOOD
WEATHER AND HOTEL IN BAD WEATHER.
16. HARRIS STARTED ORDERING AND ORGANISING AND
WANTED JIM TO GET A PAPER-PENCIL AND GEORGE
TO GET THE GROCERY LIST. HE ,HIMSELF WANTED
TO WRITE OUT THE LIST.
17. THE FIRST LIST WAS WAY TOO LONG AND SO THEY
MADE ANOTHER BASED ON WHAT THEY WOULD
REALLY USE.
18. JEROME THOUGHT ABOUT HOW PEOPLE CLUTTER
UP THEIR BOAT OF LIFE WITH UNECESSARY
THINGS. LIFE SHOULD ALSO BE LIGHT..WITH
THINGS WE NEED.
19. JIM PHILOSOPHISES ABOUT THE BOAT OF LIFE AND
SAYS THAT WE WOULD BE HAPPY IF WE GIVE UP
WHAT IS NOT REQUIRED IN OUR LIVES.
20. GEORGE SUGGESTED THAT THEY SHOULD TAKE A
BOAT WITH A COVER INSTEAD OF TAKING A TENT
AND EVERYONE AGREED AS IT SEEMED A GOOD
IDEA!
23. THE FOCUS OF PACKING THEN SHIFTED FROM
CLOTHES TO FOOD AND THEY STARTED THINKING
OF PACKING THINGS LIKE FRYING PAN ETC.
24. JIM WAS STRICTLY AGAINST TAKING A STOVE AS
HE DIDN’T WANT ANY OIL. HE REMEMBERED HOW
ONCE THE OIL HAD OOZED OUT AND SPREAD ALL
OVER THE RUDDER AND RIVER, SPOILING
EVERYTHING.
25. JIM ASKED THAT THE PACKING BE LEFT ENTIRELY
TO HIM. GEAORGE AND HARRIS READILY AGREED.
THIS WAS NOT WHAT JIM HAD WANTED! HE HAD
WANTED THEM TO PACK WHILE HE GAVE
INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT PACKING. NOW…
26. ….NOW…HE WAS PACKING THINGS ALL BY HIMSELF
WHILE THE OTHER TWO JUST SAT AND RELAXED.
THIS IRRITATED JIM A LOT!!!
27. HARRIS WAITED TILL JIM HAD FINISHED PACKING
AND THEN POINTED OUT THAT THE BOOTS WERE
NOT PACKED ! JIM WAS IRRITATED THAT HARRIS
HADN’T MENTIONED THE BOOTS EARLIER…
28. JIMUNPACKED EVERYTHING , NOT JUST BECAUSE
OF THE BOOTS BUT BECAUSE HE COULDN’T
REMEMBER IF HE HAD PACKED HIS TOOTHBRUSH!!!
32. JIM (JEROME) WATCHED AS HARRIS SQUISHED THE
JAM AND GEORGE STEPPED ON THE BUTTER!!!.
33. AFTER A LOT OF DISASTERS, LIKE SPILLING SALT ,
SCRAPING THINGS ETC,. HARRIS FINALLY ENDED
UP SITTING ON THE BUTTER!!!!!!
34. HARRIS WAS REALLY ANGRY WITH MONTMORENCY
AS HE GOT IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING AND
SPOILED THE PACKING!!!!!.
35. THEY FINISHED THE PACKING BY 12:50 AT NIGHT.
THEY WERE TIRED. HARRIS HAD TO SLEEP THERE
THAT NIGHT AS THEY HAD TO LEAVE FOR
KINGSTON TOGETHER , THE NEXT DAY.
36. JIM (JEROME) AND HARRIS ASKED GEORGE TO
WAKE THEM UP AT 6:30 A.M.
BUT…..
GEORGE HAD ALREADY DROPPED INTO DEEP SLEEP.
37. JIM (JEROME)AND HARRIS PLACED A BATH TUB
NEXT TO SLEEPING GEORGE’S BED SO THAT HE
WOULD TUMBLE INTO IT NEXT DAY MORNING!!!!!!!!.
39. MRS. POPPETS KNOCKED AT THE DOOR AND TOLD
THEM THAT IT WAS 9:00 A.M. JIM WOKE UP WITH A
SHOCK TO FIND THAT GEORGE WAS STILL ASLEEP
AND SO WAS HARRIS.
40. JIM AND HARRIS DRAGGED GEORGE OUT OF BED
AND HE FELL ―SPLASSSHHHH!‖ INTO THE TUB NEXT
TO THE BED!!!.
41. AFTER A BRIEF TALK ABOUT THE RELIABILITY OF
WEATHER FORECASTS, GEORGE LEFT AND JIM AND
HARRIS GOT READY TO LEAVE.
42. PEOPLE GATHERED AROUND THEIR HOUSE AS THEY
CAME OUT WITH THE WHOLE LOT OF LUGGAGE AND
GUESSED THAT THERE MIGHT BE A WEDDING OR
THAT IT COULD BE A FUNERAL.
43. THEY REACHED WATERLOO STATION AT 11 A.M.
AND ASKED WHERE THE 11:05 TRAIN STARTED
FROM. THEY WERE TOLD –PLATFORM 2.
44. JIM AND HARRIS WERE TOLD THAT THEY WERE
LOOKING AT THE SOUTHAMPTON EXPRES AND NOT
THE KINGSTON TRAIN !!.
45. JIM TOLD THAT ENGINE DRIVER TO TAKE THEM TO
KINGSTON AND HE AGREED!!!!!.
THEY REACHED KINGSTON BY THE LONDON AND
SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY!
46. THE TRAIN WAS ACTUALLY THE EXETER MAIL AND
THE PASSENGERS HAD SPENT HOURS LOOKING FOR
IT!!!!!!
52. PEOPLE NEAR
THE
RIVERSIDE---
BRIGHTLY
AND
PRETTILY
DRESSED ---
SPRING
SEASON.
PEOPLE
DRESSED IN
THEIR
SUNDAY
DRESSES AND
ENJOYING AS
WELL AS
RELAXING.
53. THE WRITER HUMOUROUSLY TALKS ABOUT AN
INCIDENT AND SAYS HOW THE LADIES SHOULD
DRESS FOR ROWING AND TRY NOT TO SPOIL THE
FUN.
57. KEMPTON
PARK---
HARRIS AND
JIM PAUSED TO
HAVE
LUNCH.THEY
WERE
BEGINNING TO
GET
BLACKMAILED
BY A STRANGE
MAN WHO
ASKED FOR
MONEY OR
THREATENED
TO THROW
THEM OUT.
58. THIS MIGHT
HAVE MADE
JIM ANGRY
BUT IT MADE
HARRIS VERY
VIOLENT AND
HE WANTED
TO KILL THE
PERSON WHO
FINALLY RAN
OFF.
59. THEY FINALLY SAW GEORGE AT WEYBRIDGE AND
HE BOARDED CARRYING A PARCEL WHICH WAS
REVEALED TO BE A BANJO HE WANTED TO PLAY.
61. HARRIS AND JIM WERE KEEN TO HAND OVER SOME
WORK TO GEORGE FINALLY .THEY GAVE HIM THE
TOWLINE TO TOW THE BOAT.
62. JIM’S MENTION OF THE FUNNY BUSINESS OF TOW
LINES AND HOW IT IS MOST ENGAGING WHEN GIRLS
DO IT.(INCIDENT—WRITER AND A YOUNG LADY ON A
RIVER TRIP AT GORING)
63. ALL THRE FINALLY GO PAST PENTON HOOK TO
RUNNYMEDE AND PULL UP THERE AT A PICNIC
POINT.
