As warnings go, it was a pretty ominous one. “When people see gold in that pan, it changes them,” Armin drops into conversation after serving us salmon at his homestead.
He hasn’t got gold fever – but he knows many who have and how it’s affected them.
Me? I’m on a mission to find out. I don’t need a mega-rich Tory minister to tell me how to survive a cost-of-living crisis – I’ll pan my own gold, thanks.