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  • Eight hours shifting paving slabs in the rain was proper hard graft, but the patio’s bang on. Cuppa and a sit down, I’m done in.
  • Eight hours shifting the paving slabs in the back garden of the terraced house on Brudenell Road in Leeds in the rain of the August Bank Holiday Monday was proper hard graft from start to finish, but the new patio came out bang on, the missus has put the wrought iron table from B and Q in the middle, and I am done in on the sofa with a cuppa of strong tea.
  • The lads from the building site on the corner of Old Street in Shoreditch finish their shift at five every weekday after twelve hours of proper hard graft mixing concrete and hauling girders up the scaffolding of the eight-storey new build, head straight to the pub on Curtain Road for the first pint of London Pride, and the round of fish and chips comes out the kitchen at half past six punctually.
  • Been up since six doing hard graft on that kitchen refit, so if anyone fancies moving house tonight they can get in the bin.
  • Fair play to her, that market stall doesn't run itself. It's hard graft in all weathers and she still turns up smiling.
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