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Ben Richards, Chris Hayes, Wojtek Sowinski, Julien Jean, Jergus Strucka, Edwin Fernando, Thurston Blount, Aurelia Eberhard, Lamya Adam, Leonie Siepmann, Josie Skirrow, Nancy Lindsey, Dylan Douglas-Dufresne, Nick Richards, Sam Barber
Friday
Hurtling down the M1. Nick, Leonie, Sam, I. United at Oxford, bound to a Fiat Panda of dubious suspension. M62 closed. 23 signs. Each warning of the inevitable. Leonie up since 3 am. Possibly with a broke foot. Unclear. Panda groans. Leonie groans. Another speed camera. Repeat x11. Bradford is aberrant.
Fiona books pickup en route. We converse about her archival explorations.
Typing up old logbooks to the website. Adding cavepeeps from bygone bygones. Writing up reports, one by one. The painstaking work of a noble librarian. Occasionally made harder. When the trip reports, about horrifying near death experinces, are written in a beautiful spiral. Across the whole page. The entire report. Such pain. So much rotation.
Another discovery. Deep in a logbook of old, from the 80s. A double page spread. Quite literally. Of vomit. While typing up the logbooks. Fiona found it unclear, how best to digitise this.
The toils of the librarian never cease. Never cease to amaze.
Then back to creaking. Creaking and speed cameras.
Ben
Saturday
F'ing Hopeless Pot: Jergus Strucka, Edwin Fernando, Thurston Blount, Aurelia Eberhard
F’ing Hopeless, encouraging! Down the scaff, first pitch, mud. Second pitch, crawl, mud. Straws! And mud. Third pitch, crawl, upstream… upstream?! Wrong way! Reverse crawl downstream, mud. Walking passage, haaaa… Beautiful curtains and stalagmites!! In-situ up, tight, crawl… Formations and straws, straws, Speechless Grotto, so many straws Time to turn around My time to derig Taking time, undoing knots, potential rope reuse in Notts to de-mud in mind Out Happy me, very cold Jergus and Edwin, no Notts Not so hopeless after all!
