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I've watched the whole series now and enjoyed it more and more. There are moments where you see a genuine man, a caring man, a kind man, a frustrated man and not too much of the usual idiot. I agree with solarider, between the government and the local bunch of NIMBY, a farmer in the uk faces a ridiculous up hill struggle with no support and Clarkson has highlighted that.
Really like Kaleb and Charlie and seeing them and Clarkson build more and more respect for each other.
Jeremy Clarkson is OK
Jezza is a festering cock socket
When his heart us in it he's qn excellent presenter/journalist. Like the 2 ww2 documentaries he did. Both excellent
HOWEVER
He's trapped in some loop where he's a parody of himself. It's like he's john Culshaw playing Clarkson. It's a Shame.
I do like the program however
Really like Kaleb and Charlie and seeing them and Clarkson build more and more respect for each other.
maybe just me that saw the change in kaleb this series? i thought to myself that he's getting a bit more gobby/sweary for effect on tv, happy to go further afield than his own back yard/farm now, having his hair prepped for awards.....
my wife says he also got a book out now which seems so far removed from the kaleb of series 1.
you heard it here first, he'll soon be on chat shows, im a celeb, playing the loveable ignorant farmer in a joey essex stylee...."shirley bassey? oos thaaat then?"
I do slightly wonder why if he can’t have the restaurant, why he and the farmers’ coop not go into partnership with some local pub.
But maybe that wouldn’t be able to trade on the Diddly Squat name?
I enjoyed it but I did think s2 was less enjoyable than the first one - far more visibly plotted. Every interaction with an outside agency was obviously carefully planned in advance and moved towards the scripted outcome. When he mandolined his thumb was probably the only really spontaneous incident ( sorry if that's a spoiler!).
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">I do slightly wonder why if he can’t have the restaurant, why he and the farmers’ coop not go into partnership with some local pub.</span>
100% this ☝️, it'll be easier, cheaper & quicker to just open or buy an existing restaurant or pub locally to Diddly Squat than it would have been to go down the route he did. Charlie would have told him this, just it wouldn't make good TV or expand the mini Jeremy Clarkson Land he's got going on. He'd have had less outlay, an established building with facilities and a separate car park. And none of the compounding issues associated with the shop and farm.
Apparently he's recently put in appeals against the carpark and farm track rulings. I'm sure the restaurant conception was part of the TV deal for series 2. Series 3 may as well be planning a applications for a theme park.
Buying a pub in that area would be harder than you think it's a very posh part of the wolds. I was working down there the other day it's my work patch and some of the London locals are very special indeed.
Season 3 will at least highlight how shafted farmers are and have been for a good while. I'm glad Clarkson is doing farming tv even if he can be a prat.
Buying a pub in that area would be harder than you think it’s a very posh part of the wolds. I was working down there the other day it’s my work patch and some of the London locals are very special indeed.
I live not so far from there - 5 out of 6 of our local pubs are currently, or have been up for sale in the last 12 months, 2 recently changed hands.
Interestingly we were watching the last episode today and Charlie was saying pretty much the same thing - other farmers might see this and think there’s a way they could do it too, even if it’s just over the summer. Thought it was well known that the pub industry was in trouble too, especially in areas where people have to drive to get there.
The chap who caused most of the problems with planning has a name that strongly suggests he’s an incomer too - sort of name you’d associate with the posher bits of Edinburgh…
I don't think we've done this yet....
The relaxing of the rules around farm buildings is a shocking idea that hardly any farmers will benefit from. Living rurally and running a rural shop, there are no farmers in my area that would have the funding to do this or the time or staff or most importantly the knowledge. Only the large estates and land owners would be able. Even then they are not retailers, you may as well tell all retailers that they can become farmers.....
It's government propaganda to please the viewers.
Jeremy is complaining again, and rightly so.
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24053419.jeremy-clarkson-admits-screwed-diddly-squat-farm/
The farm side of the business is 'screwed' apparently. However no mention In his article about how profitable the seasonal tourist attraction he's set up is.
Who'd be a farmer
I like Harry's plan.
Plant some grass, sit back and get a guaranteed income by doing nothing.
We can eat grass, can't we?
I was pretty staggered by Harry's profit in a good year.
depends on how much he's paying himself or family in wages as to what the 'profit' is surely?