A director of Blocksaway reminisces on the occasion when as a director of a national competitor he was asked by an insurance company to send an engineer to a pub in Lincolnshire, where the landlady claimed she had lost a large diamond from her wedding ring down the waste whilst washing up the beer glasses.

All 10 yards of 2” pipework and the bottle trap were carefully dismantled , cleaned and checked and the gulley outside to which the pipework led carefully emptied, but no sign of the diamond!

The engineer reported back that the ring clasp appeared rather too cheap to have held a diamond, but we don’t know the eventual decision of the insurance company.