29th March 2013, 01:08 PM
RedEarth Wrote:No doubt your works is always immaculate and infallible, you do seem to have an over abundance of self-belief. What, pray tell, does set a good example on TV? I'd rather have time team than the sort of rubbish we get as an alternative: atmospheric music, a bearded and moodily back-lit professor wandering meaningfully round Stonehenge, received but tedious wisdom poured from on high by experts. Give me a break!
Thought that'd get a reaction }
:face-approve: Yes, actually, I do in fact attempt to do stuff neatly where possible, we get few enough useable site photos as it is, I'm convinced most diggers have never read (or more to the point looked at the photos in) a decent publication report, or their site recording (paperwork/drawn/photographic) wouldn't be so far off the mark. Many of them these days (exceptions are becoming a pleasant surprise) seem to be horrified at the suggestion of maybe getting some scissors and tidying up the grass at the top of that section they're about to photo. And I'm afraid spray-trowelling shouldn't be tolerated from anyone, however senior! Although I did notice on one of the recent batch of TT that everyone had been issued with a shiny new trowel for some reason - nothing like handicapping people from the outset! And on one (I think the same) episode, they showed repeated shots of someone trowelling the **** over the top of a glazed floor tile - err, maybe a damp sponge would have been more to the point?
Not seen any recent TT/Wessex reports (other than the Binchester one, which was ok if a bit thin), but have had occasion to use some of the older ones - one in particular still rests in the relevent HER with a great sheaf of correspondence making it quite clear that it was never accepted -having wanted to locate one of their trenches accurately from it (and failing!) I could see why...luckily it had been backfilled so badly you could (can) still trace it on the ground... you'd have thought with their budget they could have afforded a couple of tons of topsoil to level the thing up properly? - although I have to hold my hand up to a recent 2x2m trial trench in a croquet lawn that had mysteriously sunk by 2" over the following 12 months (was flush when we returfed it, honest)- oops! - apparently it made games lots more interesting
...cue the flack... :face-stir:
Don't get me wrong though, I also think TT is a great loss, and shudder to think what we'll get next :face-crying:
More Pub Dig please Redexile :face-approve: