First two men in T-shirts and jeans spread an old sheet over my carpet to keep it clean.
Next, they removed the gas-fire, and then from behind it the boiler itself, leaving a wide open gash in the wall.
I could see the bare bricks and mortar inside the chimney-breast.
I could see the hardened cement bulging into curves like flesh spilling out over stocking-tops.
Just then,
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