UPDATE:

It is outside the house. Directly outside.

(...WHY does everything in this road seem to happen outside our house...?)

Anyhoot. The National Grid People have finally turned up, and started work. There is apparently a "little bit of drilling" to be done (joy!).
             There is also a pressing need to make periodic trips into our cellar to check that the negative readings are still negative (joy again!).

It is 21:24.
             Lord alone knows when it'll be finished.
            Which sucks.
            I mean, I know it's necessary. Gas isn't something to be toyed with. It needs to be taken seriously. It needs to be dealt with properly.

It's just...this has been going on now since 16:30, it is now 21:32, no end is in sight, and we can't go to bed because the National Grid People need access to our bloody cellar.

So, it sucks.

=SIGHS=

B.C.B.F.L.B x