How things can change

**spudfan** · 24th June 2023, 08:27 AM

Sometime last year I was walking in the hills. Finishing up I was changing in the back of the 110 when I heard a tractor stopping. Finished getting changed I went around to the driver's door of the 110. Right enough there was a tractor parked infront of me. The farmer said "Hello" then started chatting about the 110 and other stuff. Finishing up he asked if I had any scrap I wanted rid of. I said no but I'd bear it in mind for the future, so he wrote down his phone number and gave it to me and off he went and I headed home.
Well this week I'd had a tidy up and gathered up some scrap that was lying about and phoned the farmer to see if he still wanted it. Anyway in he came. During our conversation while he was in my yard he said that since I saw him last year his wife had died. She was diagnosed with cancer and passed away six weeks later. He then spent 93 days in hospital with heart trouble. He showed us the marks on his leg where veins were removed to be used in his heart repair. Anyway he took the scrap and went on his way. Just goes to show how much things can change in the space of one year.