Diddly Squat. Home to Roost

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Welcome back to Clarkson’s farm. The spring barley crop failed. Just like the oil seed rape. And the durum wheat. Then the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid and the mushrooms went mouldy. Farming sheep, pigs and cows was hardly more lucrative. Jeremy would be better off trying to breed ostriches. But, in the face of uncooperative weather, the relentless realities of the agricultural economy, bureaucracy, a truculent local planning department and the world’s persistent refusal to recognise his ingenuity and genius, our hero’s not beaten yet. Will Clarkson’s chickens finally come home to roost?

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It’s been another memorable year on Diddly Squat Farm – will the chickens finally come home to roost?

Welcome back to Clarkson’s Farm . . .

Where the spring barley crop has failed. Just like the oil seed rape. And the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid. The mushrooms went mouldy. While the sheep, pigs and cows cost more than they earned. At least, the farm shop’s doing a roaring trade in candles – even if they smell like Jeremy’s knacker hammock.

So never mind the rain, the skirmishes with the local planning department and the gargantuan hole in Jeremy’s wallet. Because it’s hard to feel too gloomy about life when there’s a JCB telehandler, a crop-spraying hovercraft and a digger waiting in the barn.

For any man with several metric tons of powerful machinery at his fingertips must be doing something right . . .

Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, October 2024

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Weight 0.161 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.8 × 1.4 cm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

224

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

828.9202 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K