Lorries we need Lorries!

The day started with me having a anxiety attack. Apart from having a nightmare about Don having injured his knee just before the Scottish Seniors (which is true by the way), I woke with thoughts of various disasters about our College platform.

You see we had calculated that we had to shift 150 cubic metres of earth and create a 4 metre retaining wall. I was worried about the neighbours and the chaos we were about to unleash. We had decided that we had better try to remove the piles of earth by lorry.

You know the film 'Field of Dreams', where there is a large windy road in the distance, and he waits for lots of cars to come and see a baseball match, and the owner is told by his daughter  - 'they will come'.

Well today I sat watching a long windy road across from our field, until the lorries came, and then they sure did come  - 42 of them over 3 hours

Queuing to get in

Despite our best attempts we agreed to call off the lorries because of the cost - it looked like it would cost an additional £5000 to remove all the material. So we are keeping it on site. This afternoon teh machine driver worked tirelessly to get as much of the platform down to the correct level - not an easy task