Saturday 10th May 2025

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. 40 loads of mud hauled out and left in big bucket. Used chisel drill and crowbar to take a 15cm layer of rock off the ledge on the West wall in preparation for a bang in the near future. Will need capping before Pete can use it! Kate found a small hole in the floor nearly where Pete wants to build his wall! 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 3rd May 2025

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. 40 loads of mud hauled out and left in big bucket. 2 frogs plus assorted spiders, slugs and snails rehomed today. Still another session like today before needing Pete to build his wall. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 26th April 2025

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Full team today. 40 loads of mud hauled out and left in big bucket. Five loads of rubbish and 1 load of rock also removed. Another session like today should see us needing Pete to build his wall up. 2½ hours. John.

Big bucket on newer tractor. Photo JV.

Saturday 19th April 2025

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence and Adrian Vanderplank. Reduced team again today but still worked hard and lifted 40 loads of mud, 5 buckets of rock, 3 frogs and 1 toad out. Filled the large tractor bucket. 2½ hours. John.

Looking down entrance shaft. Photo AV.

Saturday 12th April 2025

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence and Jude Vanderplank. Reduced team today but still worked hard and lifted 40 loads of mud and a rock out. Filled the large tractor bucket as it’s an uprated tractor! 2 hours. John.