19th August
We're at the phase now of doing some bits of fencing and any other jobs that arise in the course of the day. Yesterday, we filled a trench by the side of the road that the boat lorries will come down, Alex fetching some fill from the marina yard in the telehandler bucket, and three of us supervising the pour into the hole, then clearing up around it.
Later in the day the two Bibby twins (known as the Tweedles to us) filled a smaller hole near the front entrance of the EA stand. There's going to be a fair bit of this next week, when we have the main WRG camp going and enough bodies to find and mark the holes, followed by a team using the dumper to fill them in.
We turned an informal gate (i.e. a loose panel) on the walking route from the workers' boats to the back of the WRG compound into a proper personnel gate, and locked it with a WRG padlock. Now that there are significant amounts of folk camping there, it makes sense to start maintaining security more thoroughly.
As a result of this, wheeled traffic has started to use the track which will be the entrance to the main campsite, so we marked out the edge of that track with lamp irons and hazard tape.
Final job of the day for me and some of the team was laying a strip of rubber mesh backed black carpet along the line which most of the visitors will use when queuing to enter. It meant opening a couple of fence panels and unrolling the length of stuff. It had, perhaps inevitably, been rolled so that the top surface was on the outside, which made it much harder to lay, of course, but with the aid of some strong muscle and a scaffold pole through the middle of the roll we managed in the end.
The marquees and cabins for the WRG camp are in position, so a start has been made on moving in the cookers and fridges to them. The next couple of days may well be mainly taken up with sorting the compound out so that it's ready for the first influx of wrgies on Saturday.
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