This promised to be an excellent dig with plenty of varied jobs on three sites for the large number of volunteers (20+) who turned up at the Hammerwych village hall on Friday night. After a few pints at the nearest pub to the accommodation we retired for the night.

Saturday started early with tea delivered to beds by Brian Amos and after the usual excellent breakfast we went off to site. The main jobs for the weekend were to be piling and backfilling the existing piling at the Darnford site and continuing the brick work at Tamworth road lock. On reaching site and warming up all the necessary plant the snow really started to set in and it was decided that it would be to dangerous to continue work. Total work carried out on site that day: moving 30 piles 50m down the canal. The opinion of the people on the Tamworth road site being much the same we left site completely at about 11.30am.

As there was a jumble sale in the accommodation that afternoon a number of people went off in the van to go canal spotting, but ten of us decided that it was to cold for that and went to the cinema. The choice of films turned out to be "The Thin Red Line" or "Jack Frost", seven of us went to see the former which turned out to be a very gory but true to life portrayal of the horrors of war, but with no discernable plot. "Jack Frost" was a film aimed more at children where a boy's father dies in a road accident and is resurrected as a snowman.

After a good dinner we adjourned to another pub, thanks to Matt for chauffeuring us around in the van, and sampled a few more pints. The next day came round way to quickly and it was decided that despite a cold wind and continuous rain we really had to do some work so on the Darnford site 25 piles were put in, about 10m of piling were backfilled and on the Tamworth road site brick work was patched up and various other tasks were done. At about 3pm we all decided simultaneously that we had had enough and we returned to the hall to clean up and go home.

All in all it was a good dig, any chance of having some sun next time we go up to Lichfield?