Tuesday
Limericks on the Coach

Today was long, but not too arduous. First stop, Appleby and Hoff. Early on some students at the back took Mik's brolly hostage. Much hilarity and ransome notes.

We would arrive at a spot. Rush out of the coach for 20 minutes and then rush back on the coach again to drive to the next place. It was very hurried, but not as hard physically as the previous two days.

Mik is holding a limerick competition. Carolynn and I entered:

There once was a young ammonite
Drank too much and became rather tight
Thought he might be a snail
So he uncurled his tail
And became the world's first Bellemnite

This typifies the less lurid limmerick. We were also holding competitions for the names of late arrivals at the Geologists ball but I can't remember any of these. At least the weather remained fine most of the day. The two coaches split up and did the visits in reverse order to avoid having too many people in any one spot. We started the day off at Appleby - red sandstone. We then drove off to Hoff, an old quarry face, where the visit was interrupted by the discovery that we had inadvertently left the gate to the field open and two cows were legging it out onto the road. A couple of the tutors ran off across the field and herded them back in. Clearly you need to be pretty fast on your feet to be a good geologist. That, or remember to close the gate.

Back on the coach after a quick examine and sketch. Off to Shap quarry.