I suppose one doesn't get to dig holes because of one's brain power.
Where were the supervisors ? 
This is what happens when services are accessed randomly on multiple occasions by the various utilities, digging up and back-filling over and over, (causing inconvenience to everybody, and making a horrible mess of roads and pavements) instead of coordinating the works... plus more are using mini-diggers, rather than (more sensitive) hand tools.
Some local authorities
insist upon this now, fortunately.
Originally Posted by grahamw48
I suppose one doesn't get to dig holes because of one's brain power.: Having checked - and rechecked - for ANY wires that might've come loose from their respective sockets - and finding NONE, I began to suspect that the cause lay elsewhere
... as, in fact, proved to be the case, on further investigation!
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