Well last week got a bit interesting, too interesting for my liking! As you may already know the work we are undertaking at Titchwell can only take place outside the highly sensitive bird breeding and overwintering periods. This gives us exactly 12 weeks from the start of August to the end of October to get this years work programme completed. Up until last week things were going very well and we were even a bit ahead of schedule, mainly due to the good weather we have had. Then we hit a snag, quite a big one actually. As we are working with clay won on site (i.e. rubbish clay!) we need to use a type of material called a geogrid to help bind the new Parrinder Wall together. When the supplier was first contacted they promised it would take 7 days from when the order was placed to delivery on site. So our contractor phoned last week to place the order only to discover that a big order had come in from China after the typhoon and we couldn't have any for 5 weeks!!! Arrggg! This means losing 4 of our 12 weeks working window. So our engineers and contractors ran around in circles for three days trying to find suppliers of an equivalent geogrid. On the third day we thought we had might have found one, only to get a call from the original supplier to say we could have the original geogrid on time after all! Deep breaths all round and we are now back on schedule. Could do without these little bits of excitement thank-you!