Progress was rather slow today as we have changed our work site - we now have to work through Ratcliffe Lock to get there!
Once there, we had the added problem of overhanging trees where the moorings were supposed to be. We marked out the moorings and then decided to move one block as their mooring was right where a willow tree decided to send its branches 20 feet out into the river.
Meanwhile the men from the Slea Navigation were busy with their brush cutters - the stinging nettles form a 20 feet barrier between towpath and waters edge.
Our morning was complicated by Rees deciding to perform a backward flip into the river, He did not quite score a perfect 6, and in the afternoon when we had our tea break complete with cake, we thought Rees should have had Dunkin Donuts!
Lunchtime meant working back down through the lock and after lunch back up through the lock.
Needless to say, after a marina worker arrived with chainsaw and removed a couple of problem trees we got on with our work, the six feet wooden posts that form the basis of the H frame landing stages can be pushed five feet into the mud by hand....... the scaffold poles we need for the hold offs will need to be somewhere near 5 metres in length........
More fun tomorrow!!!!!
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