SC 500 they reckon.
One that was previously detonated off Guernsey registered as a magnitude 2.7 earthquake
Ew. Same size as the one that stopped the job for around three days half a mile up the road from here.
During those three days, the evacuation zone slowly expanded until we had sociable policemen on duty just 200 yards from the house.
Defused in situ (the bomb not the policeman) it was loaded on the back of something from the army and on a fine spring evening given a clear run through the streets and out of the city to a distant quarry.
Shortly before it was moved, I happened to go out on the bike to a fish and chip shop: returning with them and making my way to the head of the queue of suddenly stationary vehicles at a roundabout, I enjoyed a ringside view of the passing procession. Even better, the traffic guys, on hearing what I was carrying, had me on my way pronto which was good of them.
Mark
