The caption won't mean anything to you unless you've read a bit of Kurt Vonnegut, and even if you have you'll probably think it's pointless and irrelevant. So don't worry if either of those were your reactions.
So another of the many, major problems that we encountered whilst putting logs on spikes is that the "lifting logs" — the vertical posts in the picture that the log we're lifting is hanging from — they tend to move when Bertha starts pulling them sideways. If they start to tip over, then the log we're lowering moves off to one side and our log is lowered in the wrong place. Tragedy! So one of the slightly village answers to this problem that we came up with was to attach 652 separate ropes to the top of each lifting pole, and tie the other ends to trees, foundations and Britain's nuclear weapons programme — basically anything that looked as though it wasn't going anywhere — in the hope that this would hold them roughly in place. Which didn't work very well, but made getting strangled whilst walking around the site a lot easier than it would otherwise have been.
—dan
