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I've heard about some of those CEU digs. They allegedly reached heights of depravity and debauchery that we could only dream off
There was a tale of one in a remote area where the entire workforce came back with the same STI!!
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One of my favourite memories was setting off with a team of people and a large lorryload of equipment to spend a month digging in a remote island location. On arrival, we found ourselves very well equipped, barring one item - the elsan tent/bucket/fluid had been left off the lorry.
We were deturfing the site by hand, so we dug a large pit off-site and built a sod-house around it, open on the side facing across the sea, away from the site. Of all the loos I have ever used, that one had the best view, not harmed at all by groups of eider ducks bobbing about just in front...
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished
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Once dug a Meso. site in Bavaria, at the base of a cliff in a forest. We had some German labourers (prisoners on day release) with us and on day one they were sent off to dig a large pit, stick a lavvy on it and put up a toilet tent. Rather conveniently they found a wooden platform so they cut a hole into it and put the lavvy over the hole.
Two months later an eminent German professor arrived to continue with his excavation of the most intact Mesolithic burial in Germany. Apparently they had only removed part of the burial four years previously and left the rest in situ so that they could return and get a good set of environmental samples along with the rest of the burial. In order to protect the burial they had constructed a wooden platform over the grave ........ oops.
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Oh God. Elsan toilet stories....
I remember a story told to me by a old CEU hand (possibly Kevin W's mate) about a couple of volunteers on one of the larger 1970's sites who were detailed to empty the somewhat brimming bucket. Not wanting to touch it,they hooked the handle over a scaffold pole and hoisted on to their shoulders
The problem was, one of them was taller then the other so the bucket proceeded to trundle merrily down to the lower end and deposit it's contents over the shorter of the pair.[:0]
Eueeewww, doesn't even begin to cover it!!
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by Beardstroker
Oh God. Elsan toilet stories....I remember a story told to me by a old CEU hand (possibly Kevin W's mate) about a couple of volunteers on one of the larger 1970's sites who were detailed to empty the somewhat brimming bucket.
I was happy to volunteer to empty the Elsan buckets at Balksbury '81, cos we had no hot water on site. But if you emptied the Elsans you got to use the Water Board hut adjacent to the site to wash-up in and they had hot and cold running water (so what was supposed to be just hand-washing turned into a 'bed-bath' type 'shower'). Thinking back on my career since, I guess the Balksbury Bogs might actually have been a high point.
I remember we had to work on the day of Chas and Di's wedding, which was possibly a national holiday for the rest of the Empire....
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I did once wake up to find myself surrounded by a ring of melted plastic and scorched earth. Burnt my tent down and didn't even wake up due to vast consumption of intoxicants. Did anyone work at eton rowing lake?
Eton Rowing Lake eh? yes, i don't remember that one either. I was lucky enough to have one of their enormous army tents, shared with just one other. Luxury...
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You should have seen last weekends pissup. The good times are still here.
