gas works

I got home from work yesterday to find a big hole had been dug in the pavement outside my house.

I can't really complin as we got a generic letter through the door a month ago informing us that there will be some gas works going on which they hope won't cause us too much inconvenience.

But, those considerate souls have left a whole half meter gangway between the HUGE hole they have just dug and the HUGE pile of soil, rubble and what looks like tar which they dumped outside our house last week.