P actually let me do a job all by myself last night. It wasn't much really. Just one of those sink trap blockages, but we'd just arrived at the customer when he got a call to a burst pipe nearby so he left me there with a pipe wrench and some spanners and I fixed it and I caught up with him later.

He was nice enough to say that he gets through a lot more work with me helping than he used to on his own. And he has raised my pay! I'm saving as much as I can for this Greek trip.