Saturday 27th December 2025.

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence and Adrian Vanderplank. Colder today at 4°C but a bitterley cold East wind blowing. Kate to the bottom where she first bailed out a small puddle, sending most of the water to the surface. Then she sent up 31 loads of mud and a couple of loads of rocks. Adrian replaced her and used capping and P/Fs to break up more rocks. The grand totals for today were 1 load of water, 32 loads of mud and 11 loads of rocks. More could have been done but Adrian ran out of caps. Will probably need to keep digging some mud from the opposite end of the rift to stop too much slumping in. 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 20th December 2025

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Mike Kousiounis and Kate Lawrence. Cooler today at 6°C and only a slight breeze. Kate to the bottom where she sent up 40 loads of mud and a couple of loads of rocks. The too large rocks were put aside to be dealt with later. After the 40 loads of mud target was reached Mike went down to break up the rocks. He didn’t break all of them up to a suitably small size but they did all fit in buckets. A total of 15 loads of rock hauled up today. The bottom ladder now doesn’t overlap with the middle ladder! 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 13th December 2025

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Dry and sunny to start with but clouded over later. Still 10°C and little wind. John to the bottom to start with breaking up rocks. Swapped with Kate who then sent up 12 loads of rocks and then started on the mud. 30 loads of mud and another 6 of rocks sent up. Kate then came out to continue preparing Christmas dinner! Adrian went to the bottom with his capping kit and another 6 loads of rock sent up making a total of 24 for the day. Depth measured today at 14m. 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 6th December 2025

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann, Kate Lawrence, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Showers today but temperature up a bit at 10°C. Kate and Jude at the bottom for the first 20 buckets then Adrian replaced Jude for the next 20. In addition 6 loads of rocks were hauled out. Kate took some pictures looking under Pete’s wall at the end of the session. Some bits of stal taken away for cleaning. 2½ hours. John.

Grotto. Photo KL.

Photo KL.

Chlamys Midas? Photo KL. 

Cleaned Sample 1. Photo SH.

Cleaned Sample 1. Photo SH.

Cleaned Sample 2. Photo SH.

Cleaned Sample 2. Photo SH.

Cleaned Sample 2. Photo SH.

Cleaned Sample 3. Photo SH.

Cleaned Sample 3. Photo SH.