Come Rain or Shine

 

Come rain ...

... or shine ...

... smiley, happy people toil tirelessly to build a nice viewing platform cum party space on the keep roof for your future delight.

Meanwhile, inside the keep itself, those less tolerant of the British weather do their best to persuade Old Dive that there's no way they'll have the Great Hall finished in time.

Down in the basement, an archæologist with a teeny-tiny toy shovel prepares to remove the tons of protective material from the wonders below.

Over in the modern section, someone discovers what happens when you throw a cardboard box at a wall REALLY hard!

More fun and games from the castle soon.

Old Dive's History of Norwich Castle, Part Whatever the Fuck; I Lost Count Months Ago.

 Moving back inside the Keep as the modern buildings outside are nearing completion, it's amazing how much new prison-era graffiti keeps turning up from behind old Victorian boards and cupboards.

Here's another lot to be protected behind glass.

Joining the inside of the Keep to the new buildings outside will be Gabi's waffy glass bridge for wheelchair access to the Great Hall.

Here are a couple of likely lads comedy-wrestling a steel prop into position where we've hacked through the Soane-era crap brickwork to the Norman external arch for the bridge link.

And here's what will be the new bridge entrance a week later with the first of the bridge support steels in place.

Let's finish up with another rainy and grey February view of the Atrium showing the previously hidden east wall of the Keep basement and the base of the Bigod Tower.