Work Party 24.9.14

Work Party 24.9.14

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The popular stone jigsaw puzzle competition continued along the final three hundred yards of the southern end of the canal. Above Gordon sorts out the edge bits for Rhodri…..
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…who takes on the very difficult mass of grey sky which put this puzzle into the ‘difficult to impossible’ category.
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Last years champion, David ‘The Fitter’ Henry, was already into one complete corner of the abstract Rothko inspired ‘Off-White Serenade’.
He says, “I am not so much a stone puzzle solver as an artist in rock strata”. His pet hate is pretentiousness.

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Down below Lower Trebanos Lock, Andy and Carl, who were knocked out in the first round were given silt shifting duties…..

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….. and completed a back fill to an existing wall in the UK and All Comers record time of two hours twenty four minutes. Mmmm, nice sheen, you two.

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