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funny
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fast-paced
lighthearted
fast-paced
challenging
funny
reflective
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Although a controversial author, this book was great for a reflection on the star of farming, also making it accessible to people who aren’t farmers.
lighthearted
medium-paced
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Very silly; laugh out loud fun.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic
Brexit references
Political references
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
fast-paced
fast-paced
Those who are having The Grand Tour withdrawal symptoms may or may not enjoy Jeremy Clarkson’s life on the farm. If you’ve missed it, Jeremy decided to give farming a go at his home in the Cotswolds and it can be seen as the limited series Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon Prime. This book is a collection of his newspaper columns about life on the farm. Some may have read them already, but I hadn’t. I think I enjoyed them even more than his car columns.
The book is divided into seasons, then months of life on the farm covering just over one year. Unfortunately for Jeremy, that year was 2020 so things were made even more difficult with COVID-19 and lockdowns. It covers general farm stuff, from tractors (Jeremy’s is a Lamborghini), the problems of hitching up anything to said tractor and the problem of fitting that tractor into the shed. I found the sections on sheep particularly funny and the things that they do that frustrated Jeremy no end. There are other things that frustrated Jeremy too, such as the control the government has over what is grown, Brexit laws changing the way things work (like having seeds stuck in France with no way out) and general government bureaucracy. Then add on frustrating farmer things, like the wrong weather at the wrong time, mending fence posts and the price the farmer is paid for goods. Like the name of his farm, the farmer makes diddly squat.
Clarkson raises a number of issues with farming in the UK that the general public wouldn’t know about, which seem to be quite a bit different to in Australia as the government seems to have more control over what is grown. I enjoyed comparing what I know of Aussie farming with Clarkson’s experience in the UK (I still can’t get over that each field has a name). The columns are humorous, easy to understand and give an insight into different aspects of farming (right down to the farm shop). It’s clear that even for all its frustrations, Clarkson enjoys farming and it really shows through his writing. There’s a sense of pride and love in sharing his farming life.
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The book is divided into seasons, then months of life on the farm covering just over one year. Unfortunately for Jeremy, that year was 2020 so things were made even more difficult with COVID-19 and lockdowns. It covers general farm stuff, from tractors (Jeremy’s is a Lamborghini), the problems of hitching up anything to said tractor and the problem of fitting that tractor into the shed. I found the sections on sheep particularly funny and the things that they do that frustrated Jeremy no end. There are other things that frustrated Jeremy too, such as the control the government has over what is grown, Brexit laws changing the way things work (like having seeds stuck in France with no way out) and general government bureaucracy. Then add on frustrating farmer things, like the wrong weather at the wrong time, mending fence posts and the price the farmer is paid for goods. Like the name of his farm, the farmer makes diddly squat.
Clarkson raises a number of issues with farming in the UK that the general public wouldn’t know about, which seem to be quite a bit different to in Australia as the government seems to have more control over what is grown. I enjoyed comparing what I know of Aussie farming with Clarkson’s experience in the UK (I still can’t get over that each field has a name). The columns are humorous, easy to understand and give an insight into different aspects of farming (right down to the farm shop). It’s clear that even for all its frustrations, Clarkson enjoys farming and it really shows through his writing. There’s a sense of pride and love in sharing his farming life.
http://samstillreading.wordpress.com
funny
fast-paced