Was having a bacon roll and coffee on a bench in town today, watching the
Polish equivalent of Laurel and Hardy laying paving slabs. This firm has
been digging up and re-laying the pavements and part of the road, caused
chaos for over a year now.

These two Poles are angle-grinding slabs to fit into odd spaces, number 1 is
wielding the angle grinder while #2 pours water from a jerry-can onto the
slab. When they've cut it, they both light a fag. Man 2 then waits for the
lights to change, carries the empty jerry cans about 50 yards to a
(leaking!) temporary tap and takes 5 minutes to fill them up again. He waits
for the lights again, takes them back to man 1 and puts them on the floor
where man 1 is still standing around smoking his fag.

*Then*, man 1 waits for the lights to change, walks 50 yards to his truck
which is parked right next to where the tap is, picks up a small bag of
sand, waits for the lights, returns to the site and dumps the bag next to
the jerry cans where man 2 is standing around smoking. Conversation, finish
their fags, then sweep a bit of sand around, place the cut slab in place and
start on the next one.

I don't know who the boss of this firm is, but he must be shagging someone
on the Council