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I'm constantly amazed at the things blokes have in their sheds, and even more so when it turns out I've known these people for years and didn't know what they got up to in their sheds. For example: amongst other rebuilds, an electrician I know just a stones throw away builds VW campers, and had one featured in a National VW magazine some time ago. Another local who emigrated some time ago and has recently died, tuned race bikes for TT competitors, while another garage owner and former TT rider I know well collects and restores tractors, and the buildings around his home are littered with dozens. The bloke who built my Landrover salvages and restores steam wagons in his spare-time, and the bloke who is his main mechanic builds sheds in his shed! Yesterday I called at a local farmers whose land I've been shooting for years to ask where the old rusty, overgrown Nuffield had gone as I'd wanted to paint it, only to be told he'd sold it. He said if I was interested in old tractors he said I could have a look in one of the outbuildings where he had 'one or two'. I went to photograph an old nettle hidden scrapped Major in a small paddock round the back while he finished his breakfast, then he opened up the shed.....'one or two'?! There must be upwards of 30 tractors in there, plus who knows how many others in bits! Ellis, Fordson Major and Super Major, Super Dexta, Nuffield, Fergie (of course) etc etc, ranging from around the 1920's up to the 1960's. Impressive collection. What do you do in yours?