A Wall!

But not any old wall.

It is a wall with a diverse history that happens to be a side wall of our kitchen, taken from the building site that is our next door neighbour's plot.

It isn't any old wall because it happens to straddle (a nice word, that) an old underground, brick-built water cistern that we didn't know was precisely there.

Added to which the right-hand half doesn't have any proper foundations (which was news to us), from a time when foundations were uncommon and unpopular.

We were told yesterday that it should be rebuilt (the right hand half) and again today by a very pleasant, smiling expert.

Well, why not? Fingers crossed.