With Jake, Tav, Nick, Jonathon, Duncan and Mike. Our ‘sympathies’ are with poor, delicate Brockers who was tucked-up in bed with ‘man-flu’.
Me digging, Jon loading the spoil into the skip behind me, Duncan’s turn on the slippery slope, hauling the skip, transferring it to Tav, on top of the slope. Nick was doing the haul and shuttle, with Jake on the surface. Mike, who was a little behind time, joined us a bit later and, I assume, helped-out on the surface or on the haul/shuttle.
Digging, usual thing, loosen sediment with a mattock, fill a bag, pass-back to Jon, repeat. Working along a fissure/rift, where c.3m ahead there appears to be a wall and a possible left-turn (north), but can’t be certain until we get there. Happily digging away, a hole appeared in the floor, open space, a draught. Jon had a look, Tav came to have a look, interesting. Unfortunately, we had re-connected to a dig at the bottom of the ‘lower’ series that contains Nick’s pit prop, another leg to the ’round trip’. This outcome was not unexpected. That said, the dig was never finished and, the fissure/rift still need to be followed. As ever, there is plenty of stuff to keep us occupied for a long time yet!
On the surface, the team were obviously in a rush to get to the pub and had left, I locked up and followed. I didn’t give a it thought until later, how many skip-loads were brought out to the surface?
Jake later confirmed the skip count, 30 bags and 6 loads of rock.
