"sucked into the void 5000 feet below"
― mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
classic british angle: "will it affect house prices?"
(inc.a poor fellow unable to sell the only house in an entire road in bury st edmunds that fell into a forgotten mine: he's been stuck there since the 60s, while the rest of his very new modern estate turned into wild overrun fenced off wasteland)
― mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
"the uk: a small island riddled with mines"
amusingly, the narrator has actually used -- in passing -- the "it's a minefield" metaphor
― mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
"they drilled more than 100 boreholes round the school" lol
― mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
scale of voids discovered below school measured -- i am pleased to say -- in the correct unit of volume: "16 doubledecker buses"
― mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link