Dig Day Sunday 23rd May 2010

What a bloomin' hot day! That coupled with the fiasco of trying to get out of Cov at 8:40 in the morning on the day of the Coventry Half-Marathon! (Congrats to all who took part). But never mind, we got there, eventually. Digging today, although I did enjoy the drawing last week. Just wish that that particular activity could have taken place this week, although I can't complain too much as I joined Sue pot-washing. A very therapeutic task for a hot Sunday morning. Hands dipped in cold water (which soon turned very warm), removing years of dirt from........flower pots!
Oh and a couple of nice bits of glass slag, clay pipe, green pot, glass and a few other tasty morsels.

In the afternoon, we could dig in any trench, as long as it was trench A!!!! The morning group had uncovered an compacted orangey surface and it was our task to remove the 6 inches sitting on top of it. Not a big deal......on a cooler day, but that wasn't to be. As the sun shone down in its full glory, the ground continued to harden like quick-setting concrete. The "concrete appeared to contain lots of pebbles which weighed down the buckets and therefore the wheel barrows. And there was a lot of dirt to remove. Dairmud didn't help matters as he brazenly pinched one of our barrows! And that spoil heap just gets bigger.

After tea-break, I wandered back to the site to find that cream scones and biscuits had appeared and the temptation to sit under the shade of the tree proved just too much as you can see below.
Don't they look nice!


Yummmmm!


So, who's going to go first?


A moment of contemplation!