I now have a lit fibre attached to my house
I had asked VM to make sure I was notified when my external install was being carried out, and also that the engineer was to ring me prior to installation, as I guessed they didn't inform him or me!
Luckily I had the foresight to print a note and put it in the Toby, once he found it he phoned me, but he had already attached the box to the porch!
He was quite happy to wait the 20 minutes it took me to get home, he then proceeded to install it where I wanted it and was more than happy that I'd already dug a narrow trench across the garden. I hadn't dug any holes on the path side of the hedge as it would of been dangerous, all he did there was basically slit the earth with a shovel and poke the cable in - he did this bit before I got home. He'd also drilled a hole through the Toby into a hole the other side of path. The tube looks to be 8mm in diameter and is simply joined to the one in the Toby by what effectively looks like a push fit fitting.
He had a small compressor and blew the fibre back to the cabinet. They have rolls of fibre that come in set lengths, can't remember the exact lengths but they go up in 25m lengths to either 200m or 300m then go up in 50 meter increments, hence why there is quite a bit of fibre wrapped around the inside of the box - which is huge, I'm really glad its not on the porch.
The box is rather crooked, so I'll straighten that up at the weekend, and fill the three screw holes in the porch.
PS The large expanse of soil by the door is where I've dug down to take a look at the porch foundations as it's been slowly sinking, mainly due to the cowboys that filled the hole where the drains went in with bricks, block paviors and anything else they could find then just put a slab over top.