The Twenty-First Of June

Today marks two important occassions:
1. Mid-Winters day (in the southern hemisphere). The evenings start getting lighter as of tomorrow, yay.
2. The start of Tony-the-neighbour's favourite part of the house build... doing the sewerage pipes!
Since we first moved in (and it might have even been before), he has been telling us exactly where the sewerage pipes lie, and the fact that they need to be replaced with bigger bigger BIGGER pipes. We're not quite sure that he puts down his toilet, but he has told us a story of filling his wheelie bin with water and flushing that down the toilet. Oh, by the way, we share the sewerage pipes with neighbours on both sides, that feed into the pipe that runs down the side of our garden. As part of the house build, they are all being removed and replaced. I wonder whether the cold and rain will stop Tony from stomping around in the mud telling the builder what to do? Hmm, this could really test the patience of our builder. Hope we dont find Tony stuffed into the manhole at the weekend...
[dino]