Meanwhile the boulder wall grew a bit until a shortage of bedding material, the red sandy stuff in the picture below halted play. The courses of boulders lessen in size the higher the wall gets:
But there are still loads of boulders to go, already sorted by size:
As a bit of relief for boring stuff about drains, walls and roofs, how about this for a lovely little week-end footnote to the shop opening hours displayed outside Dugdale's shop in Settle:
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I posted it on Facebook and Twitter and it seems to have provided amusement for quite a few judging by the re-Tweets.
It put Pat in mind of a perhaps apocryphal tale of the Queen visiting her then failing sister, Princess Margaret in hospital. On leaving the Queen met Princess Anne, also visiting. Anne noticed that HMQ looked rather annoyed so asked if everything was alright. "No" said the Queen. "She was listening to The Archers and kept telling me to shush".
Allegedly.
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