Diet Coke Break

Builders@Canton House, originally uploaded by Kelteek.

The builders are also hard at work outside my office - is it a conspiracy of noise pollution? Will I never get to have another phone conversation without shouting. Thinking 'if you can't beat them, join them' I take my tea and sit on the window sill watching the plasterer. His movements are slow and languorous - there's something mesmerising about plastering.

Within minutes I am joined by the rest of the workforce. I sip Pepsi Max, and nibble at yoghurt covered coconut clusters and chocolate covered raisins. Do these and the vegetable extract in my soda count as three of my five-a-day? Our Diet Coke break is broken by the ringing phones.

I consider opening a website - a live updated directory of where you can spot and photograph good looking workmen with few clothes on www.buff_builders (wanna join?). Perhaps each county council could run one, charge the populace for snapping time and then give us a break with council tax. www.municipal_men?