Soft surfaces

Soft surfaces
Originally uploaded by davidjennings.


Mess
Originally uploaded by davidjennings.

At the far end of the site you can see the steps that were installed this morning. Unfortunately they lead to one of the several areas of the platform that have bad drainage: you can see the puddle from last night's rain at the top of the steps. I'm not sure if the steel of the steps is going to be covered in any way — it looks cheap and tacky by comparison with the brick and concrete steps on the far right.

The men from softsurfaces.co.uk arrived today, and you can see them at work here. The red drums turn out to be part of the mixture they use: the lower photo shows the mixing apparatus. I guess this is their 'wet pour' soft surfacing. I'd have wished for the chance for some more grass to grow back on the site — as soft mats allow — but I assume this wasn't possible.

I hope the wet pour surface dries quickly and resistantly, because it's now covered in hundreds of children's footsteps.

There was a further outbreak of stone-throwing, some of it vicious and aimed directly at the little digger, roller and shovel-buggy.