Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Tired

Very. The snow melted. (Though they're expecting snow on the high ground on the moors tonight). Of course the melt-water brings the danger of flood. Fortunately not here. The Exe is high - high enough to spill over and half fill the flood relief channels. The canal is quite high but since it doesn't get the water the way the river does, it's not too bad. But neither are looking dangerously close to overflow.

Naturally all this water means the site we're working at is a bit soggy. Fortunately (since the foreman isn't an idiot) the first thing we dug a couple of weeks ago was a set of drainage channels. So at least the site isn't under water. But blimey it was heavy going. Two days solid of digging and I'm knackered - and my shoulder is killing me. So I'm for bed as soon as this is posted. Mini-digger (back-hoe) arrives tomorrow, and a bulldozer, so no digging. (Yippee). If it doesn't snow again here (it's raining right now) then we'll start setting the foundations on Thursday. So definitely no more digging. (Louder yippee).

Ze

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