13th December 2009

We returned to our new section the next day after an anxious night wondering if the trench would still be there and how on earth we were to clear the last 23 metres.
We got there bright and early with a whole range of new tools - a cutdown coal shovel mounted on a very long bamboo pole (too tall for the photo), a real bought fence post spade and an old carving knife

which proved handy for digging out the turf at the sides of the trench.

In fact it all proved easier than expected

and eureka we have a cable in a trench.

Dave kept muttering about the 6 cubic meters of sand that would need to be shifted back into the trench once the cables were all in place but that is a problem for another day.