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In which we stare into a big hole
Following Monday’s post about a burst water main: I should probably point out that someone did turn up, the following day. A whole team of contractors turned up, and dug a rather large, and deep, hole across the road. They pumped out gallons and gallons of dirty water, filled the gutters with silt, and then the water stopped flowing. Presumably, they fixed it.
What they didn’t do was: fill the hole in again. So now, outside the house, there’s a big spoil heap* and a rather deep hole. Fortunately, not so much outside the house that we risk teetering on the brink of the abyss every time we step outside the front door, but close enough. Presumably they’re waiting to borrow a road-roller, or something along those lines, before they can try filling it back up again.
*quite a lot of dark red sand, overlying browner silts, with plenty of non-imbricated gravel in it, based on the quick glance I took down the hole this morning.
