Digging advice

[cavermark]

Replace "child" with "dig" in this poem..

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.

Might change dig night to Friday..

 

[TheBitterEnd]

I don't see the words "pain" or "misery" in there anywhere.

Neither are "bollocks", "off", "shot", "with a" or "capping rod"

 

[Bottlebank]

I'm not sure we're meant to be using children to staff digs any more?

 

[graham]

I'm not sure we're meant to be using children to staff digs any more?

Certain members of a well known Welsh caving club were known to get their very small children to place charges in boulder chokes that they couldn't themselves reach. Just don't tell mummy, OK!

We lived in simpler times then, simpler and sometimes a lot more dangerous.

 

[cavermark]

I'm not sure we're meant to be using children to staff digs any more?

Staff have to get paid don't they?  Slavery is still alright isn't it?

 

[shotlighter]

I'm not sure we're meant to be using children to staff digs any more?

Staff have to get paid don't they?  Slavery is still alright isn't it?

Besides, children make excellent "probes" to see if a passage is worth digging out.
To save waste, tie a rope to them to help retrieval. That way you may be able to use them more than once.

 

[Bottlebank]

Never bothered with the rope, if they don't re-emerge it gives the others incentive to dig quicker.