‘Why are those pipes sticking out of the wall like that?’ said the bathroom fitter, surveying the work the plumber had done.
He stood musing over the way the tubing poked through a stud wall at an upwards angle so you couldn’t attach it to a sink unless you bent it round and then he said: ‘Hmm, they do sometimes do that here.
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