Day 64: the kitchen begins! Burst pipes!

In the back, the painting continues. The painter says the tiler has run out of tiles, which is why he has stopped.

In the front, they begin digging the foundations. When I get back at 2 I have missed some excitement: a pipe, that runs close to the front wall of our house (and lead!) that they didn't expect and shouldn't have been there, got dug through. So there was water everywhere, and Dots water cut off, and our driveway stopcock didn't work, and nor did the pavement one, so they had the water board out to cut off the mains, briefly. And I missed it all. Later the plumber shows up to fix the join properly, and there are about 5 builders with their heads in the hole. Also they do a temp kludge to fix the downpipe that now ends nowhere.

But anyway, all this is someone elses problem (err, until they ask for more money for fixing it...). Later, Harry (Mr Digger Man is really Harry) finds *another* pipe running through the front garden... why is it there? Where does it come from? We don't know. But the foundations can just go over it.