Saturday 21st December 2024

John Cooper, Pete Hann and Nigel Graham with Kate Lawrence collecting and supplying suitable building rocks. Jude Vanderplank dropped off 4 bags of sand before returning home to assist Adrian with chainsaw work. Double double mix of cement used building up the lower wall in the South end of the entrance rift to hold back mud. One more session should see the two walls joined up and the top one raised. 1½ hours. John.

Surface. Photo Kate Lawrence.

First Ladder. Photo Kate Lawrence.

Pete Wall Building. Photo Kate Lawrence.

Saturday 14th December 2024

John Cooper, Pete Hann and Nigel Graham. Double mix of cement used cementing up a lower wall in the South end of the entrance rift to hold back mud. Another couple of sessions before the lower wall reaches the upper wall done last week. Probably do a double double mix next time. Adrian and Jude chainsaw work whilst Kate Lawrence cooking Christmas lunch for us all. 1½ hours. John.

Saturday 7th December 2024

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Nigel Graham and Kate Lawrence. Double mix of cement used cementing up a wall in the South end of the entrance rift to hold a boulder in place. 1 hour. John.

Saturday 30th November 2024

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Slump at the upstream end of the rift meant the spoil at the bottom was very wet and heavy. Dug into the rift to help stabilise.  40 loads of spoil transferred into 1 bigger bucket and then another 12 left for Kate to empty. Will need to do some walling to prevent recurrence. I think it was 8 frogs and 1 newt rehomed today. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 16th November 2024

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. 50 loads of spoil transferred into 1 bigger bucket and then another 12 left for Kate to empty. Getting colder and wetter on the surface. 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 9th November 2024

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. 50 loads of spoil transferred into 1 bigger bucket and then another 12 left for Kate to empty. Need to start measuring the depth at the end of each session. 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 2nd November 2024

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Took across another 10 digging buckets. 53 loads of spoil transferred into 1 bigger bucket and left for Kate to empty. 2 hours. John.

Large Bucket. Photo PH.

Kate Coming Out. Photo PH.