Tampering the pit
A couple of months ago we had to get a trial pit dug in the garden next to the wall so the structural engineer could make some calculations for the new wall. It was a metre deep and could be filled back in today.
There was a pile of soil which should in theory fit exactly back into the hole. However, one of the skills I’ve picked up in the last few years is fencing, and I know that you have to compact the soil with a tamper tool when doing anything with holes in the ground.
Luckily I have a pretty good local network as well, so after a quick message on a WhatsApp group I was able to borrow a tamper to get the task done.
I settled on 4 shovels of soil, tamper, then repeat. The hole was nearly a meter deep, so the first few involved climbing in the hole to tamper.
It was pretty heavy going, so I took a few breaks. I let the tamper do the work by dropping it from height. I had to finish up for code club and had done about 75% of the hole.
Got to the library at 3.15pm for the Dursley Code Club. The younger ones today, but the regulars. Amazingly they were all pretty quite, just getting on with their projects and only occasionally putting up their hand.
Some nice website code being generated by a couple of them. A ten page website about football, for example. Eleanor carried on with drawing on the tablet using youtube videos as a guide. This inspired a great idea which I can use in a town festival later this year.
