This morning’s post was depressing, so I am reporting something sort-of funny:

Opposite our flat there is a huge building site which is to have too levels of parking space below it.  Because our own building is old and a bit vulnerable we had a detailed survey done of it as a precaution  in case the demolition, digging etc damaged the building.

The final report on the existing condition of our building arrived recently, and I read it through quickly, noting the zillion hairline cracks they had documented.

I said to our surveyor, “All these little cracks are a bit scary, but I guess they are just settement cracks.  We get to be really worried when we can see daylight through them”.  He replied, “Or, as we say, when you can shake hands with your neighbour through the crack !!!”