More by a choking cloud of dust and a crashing noise as another wall came down, accompanied by the unpleasantly loud sound of Radio 1.
I'm having a bit of building work done, you see. Nothing too major - some knocking about and reshaping of a kitchen and so on. There are a few builders at work (I use the term loosely), drinking our tea and eating my choccie digestives. Two are young lads, employed as unskilled labourers.
Maybe not the sharpest chisels in the toolbox as the trade parlance has it but pleasant and willing enough.
One of them carried the shopping in from the car the other day. Talking to him, we discovered he hasn't had the easiest of lives. As the son of drug users, he seemed to be heading down the same spiral of self-destruction himself. To compound it he was homeless, with no educational qualifications.
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