The Pimlico Plumbers (plc) have twice been voted Domestic Installers of the Year. Or so I believe from the information displayed on the side of the white van parked just up the road from us.
For the intelligent evangelical reader, this piece of free advertising raises several immediate questions. First, what is their phone number? Second, when did this happen - recently or around 1924, for instance? Third, were the years consecutive and, if so, what happened the third year? Fourth (multiple), who were the voters, was the result close, predictable, or contested, and were the results independently verified? I am sorry that to all these queries I have no firm answers.
To my shame I have to confess, I did not know that 'Domestic Installer of the Year' was a prestigious status, or even that there was any such thing. The Booker and Turner Prizes and Goal of the Season one is aware of, and I did hear that the Christian mission 'Habitat for Humanity' walked off with the USA's 'Builder of the Year' award in the 1990s. But Domestic Installers; it's another world out there.
