Ivans Year on the circuit

For most of the time since last years dig Ivan has been digging around the country - (rarely being home in Salisbury) having to stay with various chums.	The Other day Ivan was having a quite drink or five with some digging friends in a quite little pub down the Old Kent rd. Ivan kept his friends riveted with his digging stories
He told  them how much of the year had been spent on various sites up to his whiskers in mud	Ssome of the site were pretty wet and Ivan had to come up with some clever ideas to keep dry and get the archaeology done (always knew there was a use for hard hats).
There was also the day that Ivan came third in the silliest hat competition in the site hut -	Another day Kev (his project officer) came to regret asking Ivan to get the dig equipment - he forgot to get a VAT recipt!!
Ivan did manage on occasions to get it right showing great enthusiasim to get this urn excavated - although he may have been slightly mislead when he heard somebody talking about "barrel urns"	As usual Ivans chums had shown him their usual respect when it came to Ivan stepping up fromthe ranks and acting as a supervisor on-site.
At homeIvan was having a few problems with the new neighbours, Ivan described how he had heroicaly dealt with the trouble makers and resotored the peace (putting 10 year old whisky into a six week kitten is not recomended and the RSPCA may want to have afew words with Ivan -however Wellie would prefer an Islay malt next time! HiC!).	After the nights session at the pub on the Old Kent road Ivan had a slight suprise when his charming aquaintance from the previous night turned out not to be the cute female rat he'd thought she was after 15 pints of Old Thumper
So Ivan suddenley remembered he should be digging somewhere and headed for the first Train North on his way to Dunragit	However after a slight disagreement over the cost of the fare and the realization of how many "pints" it would cost to get there Ivan resorted too other means

So Ivan's on his way -late as usual -we are not sure when he will arrive but anbody seeing him on the road please give him a lift - or tell him to get out of the pub!!!!!!
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