Monday 28th September 2020

John Cooper, Wayne Starsmore and Jude Vanderplank. Took in 2 bags of sand. Two mixes taken to the bottom. One used at the bottom and one doing maintenance work higher up the bottom shaft. Jude crawled into the lower south grotto and confirmed it didn’t go but the draught was still coming up out of the floor. One boulder refused to break so will have to be capped. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 26th September 2020

John Cooper and Wayne Starsmore. Took in 2 bags of sand and a small bag of cement. To clarify, a bag of sand taken in is half a builder’s bag (half of 25kg nominal) of sand (although I think Adrian adds an extra scoop from his dumpy bag!) and a small bag of cement is a 12.5kg bag (a normal bag is a 25kg bag). Two mixes of cement were taken to the bottom. One mix is 1 of the bags of sand made up to a 4 to 1 ratio with Portland cement. More rocks were dug out of the floor and cemented into the walls, first by Wayne and then by John. 2½ hours. John.

Monday 21st September 2020

John Cooper, Wayne Starsmore, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Took in two bags of sand and capping kit. Two mixes to the bottom. Some clatch hauled out from bottom. Then Adrian did some capping, John did some walling, Adrian did more capping and finally some walling. More walling required. Nice draught still coming from below. 3½ hours. John.

Saturday 19th September 2020

John Cooper, Wayne Starsmore, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Took in two bags of sand and left two more at the entrance. Two mixes to the bottom. John used the first building his retaining wall at the North end of the rift and then Adrian used the second building his at the South-East end. More wall building required and a bit of capping. Still a nice draught coming up from below. On the way out the extra two loads of sand were moved on down to the top of Nut Pitch. 2½ hours. John.

Tuesday 15th September 2020

John Cooper, Wayne Starsmore, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Took in two bags of sand and a new bag of cement. Adrian also took in capping kit. Two mixes to the bottom. After capping the loose boulder in the floor more walling done. Still a good draught coming out from below. 3 hours. John.

Saturday 12th September 2020

John Cooper, Matt Randall, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Took in two bags of sand. Two mixes to the bottom, no cement left. More walling done, first mix by John, second by Adrian. Small loose boulder left in floor for breaking up next time. 2½ hours. John.

Tuesday 8th September 2020

John Cooper, Wayne Starsmore, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Took in two bags of sand. Wayne added one mix to the Spiral Staircase whilst the rest took two mixes to the bottom. More walling done. 2¼ hours. John.

Saturday 5th September 2020

John Cooper, Wayne Starsmore and Jude Vanderplank. Two bags of sand taken in. One mix to the bottom. After a few loads of clatch were hauled out from the bottom more walling was done. 2 hours. John.

Tuesday 1st September 2020

Richard Carey, John Cooper, Wayne Starsmore, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Took in two bags of sand and a new bag of cement. Wayne added two mixes to the Spiral Staircase whilst the rest took one mix to the bottom. After hauling out a few buckets of clatch more walling done. 2¼ hours. John.