Dig Day Sunday 25th July 2010

Joyce, gerry and Anne came along today. Nice to see they weren't put off too much by their visit yesterday. In fact all 3 have now signed up as volunteers. Good for you. Rita and Kev came today as well, but as Kev's an old hand (and an old git!!) it was only Rita who had health and safety. We all sieved this morning while the rest went out front to dig. Regarding help from the visitors, it was a quiet day, punctuated with bursts of madness and the world and his wife! Below is a short video of Kev, just demonstrating the height of the sieved heap.

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After lunch Rita and mself worked in the brew house, and by the end of the afternoon we were both ready for a brew! It was so muggy. Basically we were trowelling back to the orange layer. There's a rubble patch in the centre and on my side I uncovered a circular featue, about 3 inch diameter, of what looked like burnt material. It was unusual in the fact that it was so round. Gerry took over from Joyce and Anne in the knot garden. After t-break, Bob and myself revealed the mystery beneath the tarpaulin in the knot garden, which has instructions to be left for Mark. Well you can't not look...can you? Very interesting. 2 layers of ash, not charcoal, surrounded by what is obviously burnt material. As to whether that's burnt soil or bricks, I couldn't say. Roll on tomorrow when all will be revealed. And as for the mulberry munchers....you know who you are.....and so do the rest of us! Cream scone and ice-cream followed!