New Station Road and Company in the Man-Cave

 Not too sure why but there must be some highways budget that needed spending somewhere.

They are ripping up our Station Road and relaying it,  Here is the mightily impressive machinery involved yesterday:

They make several passes, each about 2m wide.  The caterpillar tracked tarmac stripper does its thing and ejects the scrapings forward into a big lorry ahead of it,  The lorry manoeuvres constantly and skilfully to distribute the load evenly.

I got chatting to one of the crew and told him this was the biggest thing that had happened in Settle in quite a while.  The whole operation was impressive and the machinery appeared huge to me.  "That's the baby of the fleet" he said.  In the above picture you can see the scrapings shooting out on the left, into the lorry.  Impressive.  I believe these scrapings are recycled, being heated and re-used to make roads again.  Maybe on the resurfaced Station Road, Settle?   That would indeed be a good case of in-situ recycling wouldn't it?

Now to matters feline.  Purrcy the cat is not the most sociable cat we've had but a character nonetheless.  His status as a fellow male reinforced itself this week when he joined me for an hour or so in the man cave.  I was doing the crossword and he was doing what he does best:

Purrfect company.