24/9/19

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Stu Lindsay, Jonathan Riley, Dave Walker

2hrs15mins

headed down and checked water levels after it had been torrential rain for much of the last 48hrs, so was expecting it to be quite wet, but although the water was up a bit, it didn't need pumping to work, but we chose to pump out about a foot worth of water to make sure we were keeping on top of it in case of more rain before next time. While pumping, Estelle got to digging, mostly on the left and low, trying to clear down as low as possible on that side to see if it was the bottom around the boulders. After 20 skips, swapped and James dug, he also dug the same place, which being lots of nougat type clay, was hard work and took quite a long time on his session. Jon then only did 10 as was getting close to pub time, but he dug on the right of the chamber, which was easy digging! The chamber is getting quite large now, probably a good 3-4m long and about 2.5m wide and can stand up in bits of it (where there are no boulders on the floor!) the bottom skip is desperate for replacement. Stu still getting back into it slowly post op and Mike nursing a hamstring injury so not able to do as much.