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One of the highlights of my day was when Eugene came to show me his tractor, now complete. The young farmer has spent months carefully stripping and building the old machine. Sometimes he had to make new parts himself, labouring away in the shed full of tools and bits of old treasure.

If a stranger saw it in the field, they might say to themselves, “That’s a nice old tractor!”

But I am not a stranger and, as I climb up into the cab with reverence, I know that this glowing green machine

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