Utility and utility

It was still dark at 7.40 this morning when a truck from the gas sub-contractor showed up and unloaded a shipment of plastic crowd barriers into our front garden. I've no idea how long it then took for the engineers to appear, but they didn't get finished. At the garden wall we're left with a big hole, a mound of earth and one end of a pipe which disappears underground:


It surfaces at the corner of the house where it's attached to our brand new gas meter, just under the electric one:

I sincerely hope they show up again on Tuesday to finish this.

The other big news is another unfinished project, the utility room. They didn't complete it, but they got most of it done, and we're delighted:


And that's us for the long weekend. Next week will be all about the plumber and painter heading for the finish line. However, I can still see another week of work beyond that.