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The Tale of the Mastin Moor Boulders !
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Trepidation, yes that's the word
When grey clouds raced the morning light
Hmmn, perhaps , maybe, second thoughts occurred,
Should we postpone, what would be right?
Ah well, in for a penny , in for a pound,
There might not be another chance
Of Lavers generosity. No second time around
Decision time, time to take a stance .
So, calls are made and plans agreed,
“Go for lift off”! Literally as they say,
Gather round all we will need,
Head for the hills. Todays the day.
Rendevous at Donkins corner
And then to Bolehill Quarry
As the day gets wet and wilder
Its 2 pm, no time to tarry!
The quarryman is very nice
But many “off cuts” have been sold
No time though , can't think twice
Grab the straps , lets be bold!
Scrabbling over stones and slurry,
Finding what we can, where we can,
Loading with the grab and grabbing in a hurry
Straps , grab and the hand of man!
Darker it gets though all done by three,
Fifteen tonnes says Captain Kirk
To check the quarryman comes out to see
“Six tonnes the lot I ‘ll charge” says he!
Swift as robbers we getaway
To Mastin Moor we're bound,
Still an hour of light this day,
Through gales and rain around!
At last we carefully negotiate
Our fifteen tonnes of stone
Inches to spare, through the top gate
We're in! Oh no! we moan.
Captain Kirk has gone beserk
He's strayed off the beaten path !
The lorry's stuck and nowt will work
And the rain's our “early bath”!
Cold sleet and wind drives in our faces
As we drive nowhere fast,
It's “rescue” time! Egg on our faces,
The cavalry arrives, at last!
Off with the boulders, lighten the load,
Even 560 horsepower struggles to move,
It chunters and blocks the road ,
As the Laver lorry churns the same groove.!
At last At last ! With what relief
Our groundfast lorry wins,
But wait, we watch in disbelief
As once again ……..wheelspins!
A second time our heroes hook on
And pull with mane and might,
As patient motorists watch on,
Shuddering behemoths in the night!
Eternities often last,
So little time, in times of need,
But eternity had passed,
By the time we did succeed!
We had our boulders situate
On Mastin Moor, amongst the nature
But putting them in place would wait
For a day yet in the future!
“Ah well” reflected Captain Kirk
“Had we stranded down the hill
A Laver lorry that could not work
Would not have looked so well “
Perhaps the fates were kinder then
Than the elements that day
December 13 th 2006 when
The boulders came to stay.