Clarkson's Farm, Season 2

[Mussels]

A fair bit of the boorish behaviour is probably to make the series more interesting, I'm not surprised some of the locals oppose him as he'd probably turn it into a theme park if he could.
I was surprised when he genuinely hurt himself, maybe he'd planned smaller injuries.
Aside from his stunts he is genuine at times and it shows the struggles some farmers have to survive, I don't think anyone else has made the Brexit problems for farmers as clear.

[DefTrap]

**: the 'farmers-collective' thing was quite rightly cited as being something the local council should be fully in favour, and fully in support of, and yet because Clarkson was involved, the restaurant (and collective) was denied.

Victim of his own notoriety. He's spent the last 20 years acting the fool, breaking the rules, messing about and being provocative to make "lad's-TV". And yeah you can see why the locals are proper frit of what he might try and do next. People queuing round the block to catch a glimpse of reality-tv-farmers and buy a 20 quid t-shirt is the outcome apparently.

[Hoonercat]

Series 1 was better because he was splashing his own cash not Amazon's.

I did wonder about that, having read somewhere that the production costs were £4.5 million per episode

[Horse]

It does come across as '6 of one, half a dozon of the other'.

Clarkshon likes to ride-roughshod over the legal minutiea because he's too lazy to do things properly* (like most of us in all honesty), mainly due to the legal minutiea being just that - tedious and over-complicated.

That leads to legalistic people seeing him in a negative light and developing a subjective cant to their decision making**.

Which leads to Clarkson being boorish and riding roughshod over the legal minu.... etc etc

* how hard is it to put up a fence properly?

Interesting, though, to change the narrative slightly.

We have a couple of sites locally where people have bought land then proceeded to turn previously empty fields into residential.

In one case, an access road, landscaping, and hard standing for 7 or 8 semi-permanent buildings (see img). All without any planning permission (it was refused). The council eventually had to put some sort of order to prevent further work taking place.

Fighting against the tedious minutiea? Preconceptions of the applicans? Hmmm

But no tv personality involved, etc.

[ZRX61]

A fair bit of the boorish behaviour is probably to make the series more interesting, I'm not surprised some of the locals oppose him as he'd probably turn it into a theme park if he could.
I was surprised when he genuinely hurt himself, maybe he'd planned smaller injuries.
Aside from his stunts he is genuine at times and it shows the struggles some farmers have to survive, I don't think anyone else has made the Brexit problems for farmers as clear.

That bit when he sliced a lump off his thumb with the mandolin in the kitchen gave me the heebie jeebies. As soon as he started using it in his usual ham-fisted manner I knew exactly what was going to happen & turned away until the screaming & yelling stopped.

[Count Steer]

Interesting, though, to change the narrative slightly.

We have a couple of sites locally where people have bought land then proceeded to turn previously empty fields into residential.

In one case, an access road, landscaping, and hard standing for 7 or 8 semi-permanent buildings (see img). All without any planning permission (it was refused). The council eventually had to put some sort of order to prevent further work taking place.

Fighting against the tedious minutiea? Preconceptions of the applicans? Hmmm

But no tv personality involved, etc.

Same thing happened in Leatherhead...about 15 or so years ago. Result? Uproar.

Just looked at the satellite picture on Google maps. It's still there.

Lots of caravans, mobile homes and 'semi-permanent' homes - even a business - '1st Regency Driveways' Site looks like that one in your post, only bigger. Clarkson needs to declare himself an ethnic minority.

[Mr. Dazzle]

A fair bit of the boorish behaviour is probably to make the series more interesting, I'm not surprised some of the locals oppose him as he'd probably turn it into a theme park if he could.
I was surprised when he genuinely hurt himself, maybe he'd planned smaller injuries.
Aside from his stunts he is genuine at times and it shows the struggles some farmers have to survive, I don't think anyone else has made the Brexit problems for farmers as clear.

That bit when he sliced a lump off his thumb with the mandolin in the kitchen gave me the heebie jeebies. As soon as he started using it in his usual ham-fisted manner I knew exactly what was going to happen & turned away until the screaming & yelling stopped.

I was mostly wondering if they were genuinely planning on making commercial quanities of crisps with that little domestic mandolin.

[Pirahna]

I think my take on the whole thing is that whilst Clarkson is entertainment, if you want to watch a very respected motoring journalist who owns a farm in the Cotswolds there's always Harry Metcalfe and his 2 Youtube channels, Harry's Garage and Harry's farm.

[Mr Moofo]

Started watching it last night.

It's just the same old " JC has a great idea , badly thought out, executed like an idiot, despite loads of advice"
Thankfully, there is an odd switch

[ZRX61]

I think my take on the whole thing is that whilst Clarkson is entertainment, if you want to watch a very respected motoring journalist who owns a farm in the Cotswolds there's always Harry Metcalfe and his 2 Youtube channels, Harry's Garage and Harry's farm.

There hasn't been a new Harry's Farm video for months.

[Pirahna]

I think my take on the whole thing is that whilst Clarkson is entertainment, if you want to watch a very respected motoring journalist who owns a farm in the Cotswolds there's always Harry Metcalfe and his 2 Youtube channels, Harry's Garage and Harry's farm.

There hasn't been a new Harry's Farm video for months.

I know. All the farms in that part of the world are arable. Clarkson's was too until he decided to make a TV show about it and it will be again when the TV show stops.

[Hoonercat]

A fair bit of the boorish behaviour is probably to make the series more interesting, I'm not surprised some of the locals oppose him as he'd probably turn it into a theme park if he could.
I was surprised when he genuinely hurt himself, maybe he'd planned smaller injuries.
Aside from his stunts he is genuine at times and it shows the struggles some farmers have to survive, I don't think anyone else has made the Brexit problems for farmers as clear.

That bit when he sliced a lump off his thumb with the mandolin in the kitchen gave me the heebie jeebies. As soon as he started using it in his usual ham-fisted manner I knew exactly what was going to happen & turned away until the screaming & yelling stopped.

I was mostly wondering if they were genuinely planning on making commercial quanities of crisps with that little domestic mandolin.

You can buy a box of 24 for £37.40 (special offer online), but they're not chilli flavour, and they're not made on the farm.

It's been a labour of love but after losing half my thumb, it was time to take our spuds to the professionals.