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Now there are some things in life that a chap should never underestimate. The power of a well-tied knot, the importance of checking one's drag before hooking into something with the pulling power of a small tractor, and, perhaps most importantly of all, the consequences of getting on the wrong side of the Wife.I have spent many years carefully navigating the latter, largely by keeping my head down, agreeing at appropriate intervals and developing an almost Olympic standard of selective hearing. It's a survival technique that has served me admirably, although I fear our latest visitor to the garage had not been afforded the benefit of such wisdom.Enter Ratty McRatface.You see in the eyes of the Wife, he had graduated from being a mildly irritating garage visitor that she spotted a day before 'the incident' to public enemy number one, and there was a price on his head that would have made a Wild West bounty hunter sit up and take notice.His crime? eating his way through the kids advent…

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