Ok I have turned the gas back on this morning just to double check that it wasn't me being over sensitive last night and it wasn't that the gas smell wasn't simply left over from the engineer attempting his 'temporary fix ' etc.
Oooh no ...within a minute the pleasant smell of gas was fairly strong in my kitchen.
Turned if straight back off again at the meter

So now apart from no heating and hot water I can now no longer cook ( although some might consider that a blessing in disguise

).
Guess I know what I'll be doing today
