15th November. Drilling Through to Next Door.

You've got to be very careful when drilling through a kitchen wall that's only one brick thick when there's a flat on the other side containing a middle-aged woman.
Can you imagine the abuse? I had no desire to witness such a reaction first hand, but at the same time the plastic rawlplugs needed a sufficient depth of hole. Unfortunately half the wall thickness had already been lost to the cooker outlet box. The delicate procedure was not unlike trepanning through a patients skull, the surgeon must keep a careful watch on the colour of the brick dust coming out of the hole. As soon as the bit breaks through to the grey matter of the plaster on the other side he must pull up short before there is irreparable damage with a strong possiblity of some kind of fit or seizure.