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More problems with the skip hire company making promises they obviously had no intention of keeping. This time they left us waiting until 12 noon before taking the full skip away - when they had promised delivery by 10.30am: we had to wait an hour longer before we got an empty one! I wouldn't mind so much, but they aren't cheap at £150 a go - and then you have to add on the down time with Craig and the digger sitting doing nothing because there is nowhere to dump the rubble that has been dug up. These things are sent to try us! Despite the skip hitch we did manage to get almost all of the ground clearance finished today, leaving us with just the levelling to do with the digger. Once that's all done, which should only take a day, we will be ready to lay down the hardcore and build the small retaining wall that we need. By the end of this, I am going to have a driveway large enough for five family saloon cars... I dread to think how much gravel we are going to need to cover all of this! This is an image of something we dug up today - something that should keep Coleen happy! Not quite from ancient times, this artifact is, nonetheless, a piece of history. The only clues that I am going to give you are these: it is 18 inches long and made of stainless steel and rubber; it would have cleaned as it moved; it is from the late-1960s or early-1970s; they are still in common use today, but are normally made of carbon fibre instead of steel. It is in amazingly good condition for something that has been in the ground for 40 years - the metal is completely unmarked. Can you guess what it might be?

It rained very heavily on this day last year