14/11/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Duncan Simey, Jonathan Riley, Dave Walker, Stu Lindsay

2.5hrs

Brewery bags obtained – thanks to Miri for collecting and Jem for supplying.

A productive engineering evening. Put up bolts and line for washing/drying line for the bags on a zigzag, Stu repaired the aerial runway, 20 buckets were filled to fill the brewery bags to fill in the hole to move the ladder and the ladder was raised by about 2ft and retied into place. Hopefully numbers permitting, we can get back to digging with buckets again next week and leave the bags to wash/dry longer! 

7/11/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Duncan Simey

2hrs 15mins

Dave called in sick last minute so we were left with 5. Decided to give it a go with bucket relay rather than using the bags as they are minging! It was hard effort moving the buckets between 5 of us, but we dug 50 out (10 each) and swapped places around to wear ourselves out equally on each location. Dig seems drier and quite a lot of smallish boulders are coming out. Floor still looking interesting and there is quite a bit of roof mud we ought to bring down… Engineering works planned for next week assuming we can obtain brewery bags. 

31/10/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Andrew McLeod, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Dave Walker, Martin Cross (MCG)

2.5hrs

10 buckets each so total of 70ish, good fast digging and lots of spoil cleared, really need to look at some engineering works soon, aerial runway is now knackered until repaired and we need to raise the ladder soon and a washing/drying line for bags would be really useful!