Farm Collector

A taste of the amber nectar (Poppy Orange & Harvest Gold):

I have several nephews, and it seems like no time since they were all running around covered in dirt, playing on imaginary motorbikes and pushing toy cars around as they made revving sounds. Now these mucky, noisy boys are all grown up, but all of them remain obsessed with machines, in particular old machines, preferably those with an engine. I’m a lucky aunty, as they have turned into good lads and I’m proud of them all.

One nephew, Mathew Roberts, is a welder who lives and works in the nearby market town of Llanrwst. Anyone who came on the tractor tour to the U.K. in August 2018 would have met him at the yard where he works, where we displayed a few of our family’s tractors for tour participants to see. Mathew, who is almost always known by his nickname “Ziggs” (I can’t begin to explain just

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