Jon turned a routine van trip for materials into a road tour of the remnants and proposed route of the restored waterway...
Camp reports KESCRG at Eisey Lock
craft and oohing and aahing at the Vulcan and varying intensity of rubbish weather to mark the progress of the week. A high point of the week for me was Jon s turning a routine van trip to collect materials into a road tour of the remnants and proposed route of the restored waterway. Another was finding a branch of Cotswold Outdoors twixt site and accom and the steady provision of DOOM BAR (yes, you must annunciate this beer name thus) in the local inn****. Slightly less high points? A tie between failing to reverse a full water-bowser trailer down a muddy slope, up a muddy slope and round a corner with the dumper (it responded to a bit o Digger lovin ) and the quick-release bucket latch which refused to re-lock (it did not respond to a bit o Digger lovin and the plant hire firm was called). And a Canal: 1; Excavator & Ed: 0 moment. So there s your brief update on the summer s KESCamp. I ll follow this up with some more detail after our forthcoming dig Progress: the wall at the end of the camp weekend, upon which I shall get the other KESCRGies to remind me of the names of the volunteers, how many courses we laid, what we had for dindins on Tuesday, etc, etc, all of which I will be needing help with by now. Look out for the full report on our website www.kescrg.org.uk and possibly another in our staggeringly irregular email newsletter, KESWRD. TTFN, campers! Mark Mk2 Richardson *
...and in not-quite-so-good weather
Or it could have been the cider; see: steam fairs. ** Bomber, Avro; not Dave, Lincs. *** Not only is this not obvious, Mk2, but it s also a bad pun , I hear you murmur. **** Other, ahem, high points were to be found in said hostelry on certain evenings.
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