Dib and Dab

Welcome to Section 82 - where the tea is strong, the banter is stronger, and the repairs... eventually get done.

Step into the steel toe-capped boots of Birmingham City Council's infamous Section 82 housing repair gang, a merry band of roll-up-fuelled operatives navigating the chaos of council work in the glorious 1990s. Join Dib and Dab-our two "Reading Proper" characters-as they stumble, tea in hand, through a world where madness meets maintenance, and eccentricity is just part of the job description.

Forget what you think you know about council workers. Skivers? Workshy? Paid to do nowt? Or unsung heroes dodging collapsing ceilings and residents with opinions louder than their telly sets? You decide.

From mad-as-hatters tea breaks to the daily drama of leaking taps and leaking tempers, this behind-the-scenes tale lifts the manhole cover on a workforce that laboured under endless regulations, relentless banter, and the occasional rat.

Told by a long-serving operative who somehow survived twelve years at the coalface-body mostly intact, mind mostly unscathed-this is a brutally funny, occasionally touching, and always entertaining look at life on the frontline of public service.

LABOR OMNIA VINCIT.
(Work conquers all. Even dodgy plumbing.)