Stone shifting and soggy sieves

Started out dry and clear today, perfect weather for our first job of the day which was removing flagging from inside one of the roundhouse subdivisions to get down to the lower levels:

Cara was having a good day even if she was hauling rocks:

Some of the bigger slabs needed our lifting straps and four people, we've paused here to get our trusty planks in for the narrow bit of the entrance passageway, you can see the thickness of the slab we're moving just under Rose's right boot:

And here it is safely hefted up onto the beach - not quite the biggest slab we've moved with this technique but certainly heavy enough:

The sieves were going full steam ahead all day, it's amazing how quickly barrowloads of spoil start to accumulate even with all three sieves going:

Unfortunately the initial weather forecast of occasional light showers translated by mid afternoon into persistent heavy rain with a fairly brisk breeze making everyone decidedly soggy. Poor Rose - from the luxurious business class lounge yesterday to tying up sample bags in a downpour today:

The sieves had to shut down due to increasing clagginess (which spellcheck doesn't think is a real word but I'm pretty sure is), it had reached the rain running off the brim of your hard hat stage for Caz working on a hearth in one of the roundhouse subdivisions:

And the misty soft focus in this shot is just the rain sweeping in:

Eventually we had to call it a day as all the surfaces were getting too wet to safely work, but the forecasts looks a bit better from tomorrow onwards at least, with hot by the weekend.