But is it art?

So, we'd recently redecorated the hall. Nice job that'd do us for the next 10 years (this is Yorkshire ...)

But then we started thinking it all looked a bit ... nice but dull. Wouldn't it be more interesting to have a hole in the wall to reveal the inner workings of the house. To expose its soul, so to speak ... shades of Kevin McCloud here.

Course, the truth is more down-to-earth. A new combi-boiler system pressurised the hot water system and exposed a flaw in the plumbing work we had had done many years ago. Yes, it not only looks ugly, it is ugly inside - the chap who did it cut a short piece of copper pipe by hack-saw apparently, leaving a sharp edge that damaged an o-ring seal just enough when he fitted it to create a leak under pressure.

Plumbing fixed, now need to fill in the hole in the wall and redecorate. Life goes on ...