Hi June!
I think we're pretty much in total agreement here.
Yes - I have total respect for the workers that have had to do all the donkey work. I, personally, would have had to be pretty desperate to actually go inside the hill! Not something I'd do out of choice given what I've seen happening to it over the years...
I cannot fault the workers themselves. My gripe is with the organ grinders - the ones making (or not, as has been so often the case!) the decisions.
Given that the collapses have been known about for nearly a decade, I cannot help but wonder if the repairs would have been a whole lot more straightforward. Waiting until the last possible minute, in my opinion, was a ridiculous option. What I saw last weekend, and what I have seen in the years leading up to it, seem to prove that.
Someone, to put it bluntly, has fucked right up.
G x