Appearances can be deceptive twice

As part of the preparatory works for our house extension. we had our gas meter moved today.

A gang of five workmen turned up and proceeded to dig up my driveway. When i went to make a coffee I heard them having an intense debate as they worked. In a display of complete snobbery, I assumed they were discussing the weekend football or the like. As I tuned in to their conversation though, I realised they were in the midst of a newsnight style debate on the crisis in Georgia !

One of them was explaining that Medvedev was a puppet while another was claiming self defence on the part of Russia. Anyway, they moved on from geopolitics to finish the job and tidied everything up really well - not a common experience with the work we have had done so far.

So that was me put in my place. Or so I thought until our neighbours came round to announce they had no gas. Our intellectual workmen had managed to cut through the wrong pipe.....