August 7th

There's been a development. The giraffe is free, but has lost an ear. I don't know if he chewed it off or if the elephant was just to rough on the account he has no hands (once again W.G.L. don't panic as an incident report has been done and first aid administered.) Now that the blockage has been extracted from the stack hopefully we might get a bit of pressure. I scraped the fire bar's down once or twice looking for the giraffes ear with little success. I also shovelled sawdust from around the hopper, it's just like cleaning up after an elephant, may as well be working in a circus. Look at that the elephant has left the shovel on the wrong side of the pole. He's obviously not a circus elephant as he can't be trained.