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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