A damp day 3

It didn't rain with quite the abandon of the day before yesterday, but it still drizzled on and off. It wasn't enough to impede the work, and the ground remains firm and hard; it's been such a dry year, there's a lot of capacity to absorb the rain.

We made several trips to the site; on the first, we heard that there had been some incursions overnight. The fence had been broken in four places, and youngsters careered about, but no damage was done. The fact that there were three German Shepherd Dogs commenting loudly may well have discouraged the intruders from hanging about.

First job for wrg, then, was to re-secure the line, and walk the whole of the fence checking that all the clips were tight. It may become necessary to use anti-lift clips, that tie the panels down to the blocks, as we did at Pendeford a few years back. Siting the Festival in the middle of a town should increase the footfall, obviously, but at the cost of greater security problems. The security firm, Intaguarding, will begin work today, so that should help.

Matters otherwise progressed steadily; the sense is that we're well ahead with the tasks, as it often is at the stage; it's as the opening approaches that the pressure mounts. The Site Director, Dave Hearnden, aka Moose, has arrived, and will be spending a lot of his time walking around, accompanied by two of the aforesaid GSDs.

Plumb Bob's Arch

This is true in several ways, but in this case it was his chosen solution to get the water supply to the far end of the field past the entrance to admin village. There's some discussion about appropriate decoration; fairy lights or a pair of amber beacons?

The Comms team

 Peter and Pat are the comms team, running phone lines around the site. They're very shy, so I haven't shown their faces ;).

Workers' moorings nearly ready

 An awful lot of strimming, scrub clearing and hole filling has been done in two days to make the moorings ready to occupy today.

Plumber in a tree

 Plumb Bob asked me why I take so many pictures of him. He didn't seem entirely convinced by my explanation that the plumbing team works so hard.

Security encampment

The security team from Intaguarding will be living on site for the duration, enabling them to respond to any emergency mob handed.

Unloading a the big genset from the beaver tail.

Wrg has two gensets of its own, this larger one contained in a box trailer, and a small towable. When Bungle went to collect this one, he loaded it onto the beaver tail truck, then opened up the back doors to check all was secure inside before setting off. He was confronted by an enormous wasps nest, about the size of a basketball.

He's a very large bloke, but I'm told only milliseconds passed before he was back on the ground and moving away from the truck.

Later on, the seriously large generators will arrive from the contractor who's doing the main supply to the site.