Saturday 18th May 2019

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank, Jude Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. One mix of cement taken down. With Pete and Jude at the dig face we started hauling rocks from the bottom to the bottom stacking space. The Adrian replaced Jude so he could do some capping. The rest of us moved the spoil from the bottom stacking space to the top stacking space and finally hauled it, 12 loads, to the surface. 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 11th May 2019

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Barry Wilkinson. One mix of cement taken down. Adrian capping watched by the rest of us. Finally a few loads of rock moved up to an alcove. More capping and cement required. Seems to be dropping quite quickly at present. 3½ hours. John.

An audience with Pete and John. Photo by AV.

Saturday 4th May 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. Adrian on a fire brigade shout so we first cleared the top stacking space, Pete loading, me on the Naughty Step and Nigel on the surface. 50 minutes later (17 loads), the spoil was cleared and Adrian had arrived and sent to the bottom to start capping. Left Nigel on the surface as nothing to do below. Adrian capped rock until Pete could fit through a gap but as he wasn’t sure he could get back we left it for next time. Had to use a magnet to recover crowbar and capping bar from crack in floor! 3¾ hours. John.