Clarksons Farm - Amazon

[Elle Woods]

So cute
Shouldn’t have laughed so much at them testing out the electric fencing, but it was there little noises afterwards

It made me giggle too, it was so cute, it was almost as if you could actually hear them saying "ouch!"

 

[JulieScoobyDoo]

Kaleb has been too big for his boots for a while now. Best thing JC can do is sack him and let him get on with being the media star he seems to want to be, or buy his own farm ,

 

[dxo]

I thought someone might have a heart attack too! Great tv but my gosh, that did not look pleasant (the chilli sauce) and I love a good spicy chili sauce!

Was sooooo relieved they kept Richard Ham

 

[yellowmellow]

Please remember that what you see is so heavily edited for TV, and also that you don’t know what Clarkson and his team asked for. The pub staff probably did want to delay opening, do a soft launch etc but often when the gaffer sets their mind to something they won’t change it, and they won’t listen to you if you warn them why it’s a bad idea.

I’ve seen it so many times: CEO’s or big bosses setting ridiculous arbitrary deadlines for things and then yelling when everything goes wrong because it was rushed or under tested.

There's also lots of editing involved for drama/entertainment. Was all that clearing up really happening as people were queuing waiting to get in? Or was it actually separate days?

 

[Ali999]

Started it last night. The wall builder in the second episode reminds me of my neighbours and the town i live in..

Could actually understand everything he said much to my joy!

 

[SarahGard83]

Just watched the 4th episode and have tears streaming down my face.

 

[IndominusRex]

We went to the farm shop the week before the first series was on and we were the only people there!

 

[Prince fan 1999]

The piggies

 

[stardust1]

She grew on me after we got past the lenny henry bed crap

 

[Louanne]

I live in a rural farming community and bovine TB is horrendous.
They legally have to close and cannot reopen until they receive completely negative tests for TB at the next round, which is around 4 months, and therefore dictates the length of the closure:

 

[Prince fan 1999]

Very pleased Clarkson's Farm won at the NTA's. Clarkson looks like he's lost a ton of weight.

So happy they won. Yes his trousers were falling down Sad Heart stopper didn't win

 

[MyLittlePony25]

I haven’t watched yet! I’m looking forward to binging it one day soon. So glad it’s back!

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

No, they said he was a parking attendant I think and alluded to the fact it was his last day so I guessed he’d either been binned or left.

Did people hear what a customer said to the woman behind the butcher counter? So rude.

Aah right sounds like sour grapes on his part then. I must admit I’m a terrible person I laughed at the comment.

 

[StephenTJackson]

I don't understand the objections. The amount of tourism he must be bringing to the area. People don't travel hours to just go to the farm and then go home. We are looking at going down the area and will go to Diddly Squat. We will stay in a hotel close by and visit the surrounding areas, surely this is good for the area.

The nimby local will just have decided he hates Clarkson, and think he is evil. The bit about developing over half the farm, that bit in the barristers report alone should've had it thrown out as a total joke and vendetta.

 

[StephenTJackson]

Don't know why he even needs to advertise Hawkstone. It seems to be bloody everywhere now, I don't know whether their salesman specifically targetted Cambridgeshire but it's on tap in a couple of my local pubs, and has been for a couple of weeks, so not just one precious trial keg. If the same pattern of wide availability is repeated across the country, it can't possibly be a little husband and wife brewery making it for him, there has to be one of the big boys quietly doing the brewing and distribution for him.

Doesn't matter if it is good or bad, the number of people saying "oh they've got the Clarkson lager, I must try it", even if they only try one pint, his profit must be astronomical from it.

(Yes I did fall for it and had a pint, nothing special, went straight back to Peach Jubel for the rest of the night )

It's no secret they have had to get other brewing companies around the UK involved to help meet production demands of all the various products in the range.

And it is popping up in more and more supermarkets as well.

It's grown from small local company to big national brewer, but is very popular.

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

Hope he's going to do Clarkson's Pub next, with this pub he's bought, and show some of the challenges in the pub trade in the same way as he's brought insight to the challenges of farming.

I'll bet my house that's going to happen. At least it will give him somewhere to sell his products without aggravating of the council. He obviously really wanted a restaurant so this solves that issue too.

I saw an article today of publicans moaning that Clarkson thinks he can just buy a pub and run it. Well, that's what he did with his farm

 

[StephenTJackson]

Yes and all that hard work and he only made £144 profit.

And that's real. For so many farmers, that's why farmers have loved the series so much because of how authentic it was and showing real farming in a way that Countryfile never will.

It's effortlessly shown how hard it is for farmers to make basically no money and how the deserve so much better.

 

[Catfan2]

I want to know what’s going to happen to little Richard Ham . Hopefully he won’t grow big enough to be sent to market and will have a nice life on a petting farm or something

 

[StephenTJackson]

Can you imagine what Cheerful Charlie has to know? The rules and regulations are unbelievable. He seems to cover everything.

It's why he's so cheerful, all that red tape, regulation and bollocks he has to deal with. And that is without having to deal with Jeremy.

 

[Skewbedu]

I probably would have started the harvest without Jeremy if I were Kaleb, once he joined in he started wrecking things, making mistakes and getting so stressed it must have been much quicker and simpler doing it without him for a while. I like to think Kaleb knew Jeremy was stressed and busy at the pub and was trying to be helpful taking on the harvest by himself.

He literally giggled that he was leaving him out of it.