13/10/26

Estelle walked up with Holly dog but arrived as the others were still getting changed and heading down. Amber joined us enthusiastically for the fist time. Mike M and Amber digging forward and Harley digging the hole in the floor which is slower progress than the forward wall of spoil! The rest of us moved the buckets back and Harley swapped with James for a bit, before everyone leaving Mike M to tickle a boulder. As we'd made good timing on first round of buckets, second round of 12 went down and Harley dug forward, whilst Mike M and Estelle dug a bit more out from the floor. Quite a few rocks that are too large to move need plug and feathering to make more space at the end. The hole in the floor is getting bigger and still has quite a lot of rock to remove as they are made accessible by clearing spoil. Going forwards continues to be easy digging. After all remaining buckets taken up and dumped into left hand hole, we headed out and to Hunters. 1 bucket demised it's handle during it's exit, so think we're down to 34 in circulation now, which means we moved 47 tonight.