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Rupert Dale's family run a hay farm on the Worcestershire/Shropshire border supplying livestock farmers across the country.

But they often discounted their own contributions to farm work, saying things like they "only" managed hay or that their husband was "the primary farmer."

In recent years, one of the farm’s employees, Juan Ramirez, has crafted giant minions out of hay bales that are visible from the freeway.

Remnants of desiccated hay crunched underfoot, and the sun-baked soil was fragmented with deep cracks.

That was the one she doesn’t remember in much detail other than it was with a beautiful, kind, red-haired young man named Massimiliano in a hay field in her mother's hometown.