Leak

So about three weeks ago I hung a picture on the wall in the living room, and though I didn't link the two, I also began to smell gas behind the television. Dr B said I was imagining it - there were no gas appliances in that part of the house.

The smell continued (and I kept sticking my nose there to check). Nobody else could smell it - I convinced myself they were right. Today the smell was worse so I phoned British Gas. They came within the hour but their leak-o-meter showed nothing up along the skirting board. I was beginning to think I really was imagining it until the nice man told me I'd nailed a pipe and that he was shutting off the gas. 4.30pm on a Monday afternoon with two cold-ridden kids, it's not what you want to hear.

Note to self - always use the wire detector gadget before hanging up pictures. Thankfully we got a gas service engineer round within half an hour and he managed to seal this off. Could have been much worse.