{"id":3170,"date":"2014-05-28T22:44:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T22:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2017-07-05T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:53:40","slug":"wednesday-28th-may-2014-ive-been-digging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 28th May 2014 &#8211; I&#8217;VE BEEN DIGGING &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; today. But not, as you might be thinking, with a shovel or a spade.<\/p>\n<p>Just for a change today we had a nice day and I was up with the cock (but enough of my personal habits). And a little later, Terry came round. With his van. And the big trailer. And with our mini-digger, because if you remember, we own a mini-digger between us.<\/p>\n<p>While Terry was sorting himself out I was rescuing the very sad Sankey Trailer from out of the undergrowth and coupling ut up to Caliburn, and then we set to work.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I had someone from the football club pay me w avisit with his digger and he dug out a couple of ruined houses so that I could make a car park. He hadn&#8217;t done it exactly as I had wanted but he had been and gone while I was at the shops and so I wasn&#8217;t going to stand in the way of anyone who can work at that speed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1405\/1405439.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1405\/1405439.jpg\" alt=\"takeuchi mini digger les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>Anyway, the upshot of all of this is that Terry brought the digger around and we carried on where the prevuous guy had left off.<\/p>\n<p>It took much longer than I anticipated as firstly I wanted to save all of the big stones to build a nice stone wall, and secondly, we had to keep on taking Caliburn and the trailer up to the precipice and shovel the soil out by hand.<\/p>\n<p>Terry left at about 16:30 and hopefully he&#8217;ll be back to help me carry on on Friday, and I had a play around with the digger as I had never used one before. And I had an enormous amount of fun and I can certainly see a pile of uses for this. <\/p>\n<p>I was all hot and smelly afterwards and even though the water was only 32.4\u00b0C in the solar shower I had a shower as I certainly needed it.<\/p>\n<p>I crashed out for a while afterwards and then had a long chat with Rosemary on the phone. She needed a little cheering up.<\/p>\n<p>So tomorrow is a Bank Holiday and I&#8217;m having a Day of Rest.<\/p>\n<p>But it was sad to see the state in which the Sankey Trailer finds itself. The floor is dropping out of it and the chassis is rotten. 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But not, as you might be thinking, with a shovel or a spade. Just for a change today we had a nice day and I was up with the cock (but enough of my personal habits). And a little later, Terry came round. With his van. And the big trailer. 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