A Year in the life of Jeremy Clarkson’s Cotswolds farm, which he takes on when his tenant farmer decides to retire. Want to know how to become a millionaire? Start off a billionaire and buy a 1000-acre arable farm in England. Or you could win Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, the very quiz show… Clarkson’s Farm (TV series, season 1) Read More
Chapter 1 recap: Tractoring (Clarkson’s Farm)
Chapter 2: Sheeping / Chapter 3: Shopping / Chapter 4: Wilding / Chapter 5: Pan(dem)icking / Chapter 6: Melting / Chapter 7: Fluffing / Chapter 8: Harvesting (Looking for my review? It’s here.) Jeremy buys a massive, very flash Lamborghini R8 tractor. Everyone tells him it’s too big. It’s 10 tons with 40 forward and… Chapter 1 recap: Tractoring (Clarkson’s Farm) Read More
Chapter 2 recap: Sheeping (Clarkson’s Farm)
Chapter 1: Tractoring / Chapter 3: Shopping / Chapter 4: Wilding / Chapter 5: Pan(dem)icking / Chapter 6: Melting / Chapter 7: Fluffing / Chapter 8: Harvesting (Looking for my review? It’s here.) Three hundred acres on Jeremy’s farm are uncultivated meadows, with DEFRA paying him not to grow crops on it. Rather than undertake… Chapter 2 recap: Sheeping (Clarkson’s Farm) Read More
Chapter 3 recap: Shopping (Clarkson’s Farm)
Chapter 1: Tractoring / Chapter 2: Sheeping / Chapter 4: Wilding / Chapter 5: Pan(dem)icking / Chapter 6: Melting / Chapter 7: Fluffing / Chapter 8: Harvesting (Looking for my review? It’s here.) Jeremy visits his local farm shop, the very posh Daylesford. He buys everything for a Ploughman’s lunch for him and Kaleb and… Chapter 3 recap: Shopping (Clarkson’s Farm) Read More
Chapter 5 recap: Pan(dem)icking
Chapter 1: Tractoring / Chapter 2: Sheeping / Chapter 3: Shopping / Chapter 4: Wilding / Chapter 6: Melting / Chapter 7: Fluffing / Chapter 8: Harvesting (Looking for my review? It’s here.) It’s February 2020. Jeremy is preparing for lambing season, and they’ve built a lambing barn. But soon the news is full of… Chapter 5 recap: Pan(dem)icking Read More
Chapter 6 recap: Melting (Clarkson’s Farm)
Chapter 1: Tractoring / Chapter 2: Sheeping / Chapter 3: Shopping / Chapter 4: Wilding / Chapter 5: Pan(dem)icking / Chapter 7: Fluffing / Chapter 8: Harvesting (Looking for my review? It’s here.) Jeremy has already been faced with torrential rains for weeks, followed by long dry spells. He has planted sunflowers, pumpkins and sweetcorn,… Chapter 6 recap: Melting (Clarkson’s Farm) Read More
Chapter 7 recap: Fluffing (Clarkson’s Farm)
Chapter 1: Tractoring / Chapter 2: Sheeping / Chapter 3: Shopping / Chapter 4: Wilding / Chapter 5: Pan(dem)icking / Chapter 6: Melting / Chapter 8: Harvesting (Looking for my review? It’s here.) There are jobs to be completed before harvest time arrives. Jeremy gets to work on his and Lisa’s new water bottling plant,… Chapter 7 recap: Fluffing (Clarkson’s Farm) Read More
Wild Mountain Thyme 2 stars
Two young farmers in Ireland argue over a small strip of land and fail to realise they are meant for each other… The Wild Mountain Thyme trailer came out last year to general merriment (which to be fair we needed) at the grimly-determined, overegged Irishness of it. Even The National Leprechaun Museum complained on Twitter… Wild Mountain Thyme Read More
The Levelling 4 stars
There’s a briefly joyous interlude in The Levelling when Clover and her father, farmer Aubrey, find a cow and her newborn calf. The calf is adorable, just starting to stagger up on its little legs, and it seems like a moment of hope, until it turns out to be a boy and its fate is… The Levelling Read More