As far as I know, there are no Conservative* District Councillors buried in the foundations of the new office...

...although, in truth, there could be and I'd never know. At least, it would probably take a long time until I did.

Before we continue, let me assure any casual readers that this is not the sort of thing that a bureaucrat would encourage. In any event, burying people in the concrete tends to destabilise your foundations and cause potential subsistence difficulties.

Yes, the concrete has been poured into the trenches and I am therefore unlikely to come home and fall into a seven foot deep trench. The duckboards are still there, and the garden is a sea of mud, but things are certainly happening. Every time I look, there is something new to see, a little more progress.

Anyway, I was reminded of Jimmy Hoffa, and the rumour that he is buried under Giants Stadium in New Jersey. Apparently, an experiment was carried out whereby dead pigs were buried under concrete, and it was discovered that wet concrete drying over a corpse takes on the smell of that corpse, especially as the gases escape from it as it rots and percolate upwards. Indeed, a body encased in concrete creates a pocket around it from the gases.

Amazing what you learn from the Internet...

*Why Conservative councillors and not Labour councillors? What Labour councillors? We don't have any of those in Mid Suffolk...