And no, I don't think it's right to go from weekly to monthly updates in the middle of it

Don't you? A little different from your opening statement, eh? "why would there be weekly updates? All the updates I saw were clearly written by archaeologists. I'm sure the engineers have better things to do than take hours out of their already probably very long working days to write about the backfilling process?"

to be honest you all seem a bit more involved in this than me

Oh, to be honest none of us thought that of you from the start.