Why does Word make all the apostrophes and speechmarks weird? I mean, look at yesterday's entry! Honestly.

BTW, the site I was working on yesterday was at Rectory Gardens in Evington. Honestly, I couldn't remember what its exact name was, even though I'd typed and written it however many times. D'oh!

Today was a bit strange. I arrived at 10am, fought my way though a pack of schoolchildren (there's a constant stream of schoolchildren arriving in lines of pairs, very scary) and made it to the office in one piece. Once there I discovered that my boss wasn't there. He'd gone on a site visit. He'd left me a note, though.

I changed the bits that he'd commented on (not too many, nothing serious, I must be okay!) and started on the next report he'd left me. This one was the old South Leicestershire Garage in Evington. On the High Street. See, I remember this one. I'll be an expert on the history of Evington at this rate. Anyway... it was another Desk-based Assessment. It didn't look like there'd be much surviving archaeology, what with the amount of construction that had taken place on the site over the years. There were some interesting pictures taken in the loft, though. They surveyed the Garage showroom because it looked like it might be old, you see. You could see the timbers in the roof space, along with a huge amount of junk. There were piles of things all over the place! TV's, all sorts of things. It was amusing (to me) to find photos of someone's junk in an archaeology report. So... I wrote the "source" and "activity" entries for it and wondered what to do next.

Using my initiative, I started making notes on another report that was lying around. I didn't put it on the computer in case he wanted to tell me something about it, but I pretty much worked it all out. That one was for an extension to the Tesco in Humberstone. When they built the store they built over a load of Iron Age houses. There wasn't much in the part the Watching Brief was for, though. A bit of an enclosure ditch... that was pretty much it.

It was the afternoon, and my boss hadn't come back yet. Perhaps he's avoiding me. I looked over things and read entries on the computer until 2pm (I'm supposed to finish at 4pm), then I figured I could do more constructive things with my time. So I wrote a note and left. Now, either he'll want to know why I didn't do something that it was completely obvious that I could do, or he'll wonder why I stuck it out so long. Or a third option that I haven't thought of.

I expect I'll find out tomorrow...

posted by Fiery Fred @ 10:40 PM