Fleur Loveridge

@undertheground.bsky.social

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Cave explorer. Prof Geo-Energy Engineering University of Leeds. Posts about: hills, dales, potholes, energy, infrastructure, resilience, women's cricket.

Me, next to a trig point of Mullach Buidhe, with the eastern hills of Arran, including Cir Mhor and A'Chir ridge in the background and blue skies above.
A man in an orange jacket sat on the grass with a tablet connected to q datalogger in a black waterproof box.
A squinting caver in red helmet and red suit wrestles red tackle bag of rope into a small rectangular hole in a grassy shakehole
A man in his slava ukraine outfit (blue top and yellow trousers) balances between two slabs of rock with the valley in the background a long way below, and blue skies above.
A three span footbridge supported by two piers and cable stays crosses between two embankments. A group of hi vis clad students pose for the photo on the bridge above a University of Leeds banner.
Launching a bridge deck from an embankment towards a concrete pier. Two operatives stand on a scaffold tower watching it approach.
6 happy students in a braced excavation with an exposed tunnel opening behind them. Above ground others are working on construction of a small timber and steel building.
Concrete pouring from the back of a wagon into a precast bridge desk. Students in PPE using shovel to help move the concrete around the formwork area.
Students in yellow hi vis and blue hard hats crouch down fixing rebar into a cage that will be used for a column foundation. In the background other students in orange hard hats study construction drawings, whilst other participants walk past.
Two cavers walking along a track on a snow covered moor, beneath clear blue skies.
A square cut hypogenic walking sized cave passage with numerous stalagmites and small calcite straws. A muddy helmet-less caver sits in the centee admiring the formations, taking care not to damage or dirty them.
A heavily scalloped underground stream passage, with a caver admiring a calcite formation in the distance
Schematic showing policy for individual heat pumps (boiler upgrade scheme or BUS, social housing decarbonisation fund, heat pump ready programme) and for heat networks (heat network zoning, green heat network fund). Heat and Buildings Strategy applies to both, but nothing specifically for shared ground loops.
A schematic showing terraced housing and a block of flats, each connected to a shared ground loop ground heat exchanger, with individual distributed heat pumps in each property.
Looking west from Dollywagon at a cloud inversion below
Moonrise over the French Alps with a little dusting of snow on the higher peak and the tops of trees in the foreground.
A selfie of two well wrapped up women with hats and hoods up, with a loch and mountains behind them.
Graffiti on an old boat on the seafront reads "slava ukraini"
Early morning sunshine over Tower Bridge and the Thames
That yellow shirted girl part way up Paglia Orba, in front of the remarkable face of Tafunata which have a hole straight through it to the Fango valley below.
A swollen and bandaged knee on a hospital bed
Me, all in purple, on the summit of Goat Fell, with the sharp ridge of the Glen Sannox Horseshoe behind me
Women in yellow top with dodgy knee on top of high mountain with a cross in the foreground and surrounding hill beyond.
Quote from the restaurant at the end of the universe. "The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "
Train departure board. 06 35 LNER to Edinburgh.
The entrance to North Greenwich underground station, tge happy student team, the ventilation shaft headhouse and Canary Wharf Ststion behind.
Pouring the reinforced concrete base slab in Canary Wharf Station through the temporary props.
Pouring concrete for bridge foundations
Erection of timber formwork for castings of reinforced concrete bridge pier.
Setting out the wooden formwork box for the foundations of the piers for Milau Viaduct. Foundation reinforcement steel cage in the foreground.
A construction site scene. Foreground: a partially build timber platform for casting concrete structural components. Background: a large excavator commencing digging.
Hiker (me) above narrow lakeland ridge and blue tarn with cloudless skies.
Hand drawn sketch of cave survey
Me in a red jacket and black mountain cap wearing sunglasses while stood on a fell beneath blue skies with the the sea on my left.
A full rainbow above a churning green brown sea.
The cover of issue 302 if Descent Magazine featuring a cave chamber filled with calcite formations on the floor, ceiling and walls.
A mountain ridge beneath clear skies, empty of people, but containing one border collie.
A caver crosses a bridge across a subterranean void tens of metres deep. The bridge is in two parts, a narrow sub horizontal walkway and a steeper sub vertical ladder.
A man walks up a ridge in the Lake District.
A snowy shakehole containing a cave entrance (and several cavers)
The fields of Swadale blanketed in Snow in the morning light
Extract from the publication available in full at the above link
Pete sits in his climbing gear on top of a ridge above a port town with views of the sea and limestone mountains beyond.
Scrambling on a limestone ridge with a high cliff and blue sky in the background.
View over the port town of Cala Gonone with the limestone mountains of the supramonte beyond. Late evening light hangs on the blue sea. A few long clouds in the sky.
An oblong cave chamber with a flat roof dripping with calcite straws and stalactites. The floor is strewn with boulders, with many stalagmites. On the right is a calcite flow covering the full height of the chamber. Two passages disappear into the darkness beyond.
Gareth looks over the wild landscape of the Granada plateau. Tussocks underfoot, with occasional rock outcrop, and on this occasion blue in the sky. Its a beautiful but remote place to travel and live.
A caver stands in an underground chamber. The floor is littered with stalagmites and a pendant stalagmite hangs from the roof, as well as many smaller calcite straws.
Pete in small low chamber in a hypogenic cave in the Northern Dales with clusters of white and yellow stalagtites from the roof, and calcite flows on boulders.
Well head pipe work, pumps and instruments
Pete and Beardy high above Scoredale
Back pit caver stands in the main stream of Doolin River Cave with scalloped walls and roof