Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

A boiler service – spaghetti western-style

If there’d been a theme tune, it would have been Ennio Morricone’s ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’

Was that a coyote howling in the distance or just the neighbour’s cat?’ [Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo] 
issue 09 July 2022

The British Gas engineers arrived in convoy, and the dust from their tyres flew into the air as they came down the track.

If this boiler service had a theme tune it would be Ennio Morricone’s ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’.

The engineers parked up and got out of their vans in a cloud of dust.

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