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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]

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