"You need to look a bit closer and then think about it; beneath that old fashioned hairstyle and the schoolmarm glasses, Mrs H is quite a looker, not drop-dead gorgeous I'll grant you, but we've all had a lot worse..." That drew more laughter, but less than his opening line; it tailed off completely as the other guys and indeed me too realised that there was more than a little truth in what Leo had just said.

"...To be fair I have an advantage over the rest of you: Last summer, during that really hot spell, I did a job just across the road from Mrs H's" -- Leo installed...