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West country farmer, Matt Dale, prefers using his boat to working on it - but sometimes, even he has to bite the bullet and get his tools out

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Earlier in the year, we made a list of the things that make our 1998 ’van a little harder to live with than it needs to be. Many have been sorted already – the plumbing is more reliable and there have