"Man has been growing crops for 12,000 years, how hard can it be, right? Accompany Clarkson on his voyage of discovery as he learns to become a farmer in his year at Diddly Squat Farm."
Love him or loathe him, you cannot help but be sucked into the shenanigans at Clarkson's Diddly Squat Farm. An unlikely farmer, in June 2021 Clarkson's TV series Clarkson's Farm, documenting an intense, tough but funny year at his farm in the Cotswolds, debuted on Amazon Prime Video.
If you read the Sunday Times, you will have already read this book as the content first appeared in his column. If not, grab your wellies and join new eco-warrior Clarkson on his voyage of discovery through the farming calendar, in the year he decided to actually do something on the sprawling thousand acre farm he bought in 2008 as he learns to become a farmer. The repetition from the columns are a little frustrating but nevertheless it's a funny book with lots of take outs.
Following his attempts to become the potato king of Chipping Norton, we see the brutal reality of full-on vegetable farming, his attempt at doing a "Morgan Freeman" with bees and how the farming lifestyle becomes part of him, despite it paying him forty pence a day.
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Pre-order the all new collection of farming fiascos and flat-cap antics from the UK's best loved gentleman farmer and (two time!) Sexiest Man Alive winner Jeremy Clarkson
'Fans of Prime TV series Clarkson's Farm will enjoy this companion' IRISH TIMES
Uncooperative animals, underperforming crops, and rather less than best-laid plans pursued with unbridled enthusiasm - Clarkson's farm is the gift that keeps on giving. And this time there's one rather devil-may-care farm animal who's really getting Jeremy's goat . . .
Pull on your wellies, grab your flat cap, (and a pint from our hero's pub), and join him for this latest escapade into the sublimely ridiculous.
What could possibly go wrong this time? Pre-order to find out!
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Praise for Clarkson's Farm:
'The best thing Clarkson's done . . . It pains me to say this' GUARDIAN
'Shockingly hopeful' INDEPENDENT
'Even the most committed Clarkson haters will find him likeable here' TELEGRAPH
'Quite lovely' THE TIMES
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Diddly Squat is available in Hardback, Paperback
Diddly Squat was written by Jeremy Clarkson and published by Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Diddly Squat has 300 pages
£19.80
