Jeremy Clarkson says its driving me mad as he makes | UK News

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed a important transformation at Diddly Squat Farm, sparked by a sudden urge to spring-clean the whole farmyard. As the UK has basked in occasional bursts of wonderful sunshine over the previous two months, many have made essentially the most of the climate, spending time outside and even taking an early journey to the seaside. However, in his column for The Times, Clarkson shared that he devoted the “first vaguely warm and pleasant day of the year” to decluttering and organising his huge 1,000-acre farm.

The 65 12 months outdated TV persona wrote: “Most of us have a drawer of “many issues” in the kitchen. You want a nine-volt battery? You look in the drawer. You want a rubber band or a paper clip? You look in the drawer. You want a razor blade or a drinking straw or a ten euro note? They’re all in your kitchen drawer as well.”

“On average you rummage around in your kitchen drawer once a week, looking for your Swiss Army knife or a pair of scissors or some binoculars, and you don’t give it a second thought. But then, at the first hint of spring sunshine, we are genetically programmed to think, “I must do something about this drawer. It’s driving me mad.”

This epiphany inspired the former Top Gear host to embark on the “Herculean” task of cleaning up his farm. By the end of the first day, Clarkson had filled an impressive three skips worth of waste.

The father-of-three, Jeremy, opened up about the “Herculean” effort of managing his farm, which was not without its hurdles, including his co-star and fellow farmer Kaleb Cooper heading off to the Yorkshire Dales after being asked for assistance.

“The first downside I encountered was that nothing in farming has an apparent goal,” Jeremy explained. “There’s at all times a dusty electrical box of some variety with ugly wiring and a few mild rust.”

He went on to describe the frustrating state of agricultural equipment: “And to make every part worse, every part designed for agricultural use seems to be damaged and rusty when it is model new. So I’d decide one thing up from beneath some discarded plastic sheeting and never know what it was, or what it did, or whether or not Kaleb had purchased it final week, or if it had been left within the yard by somebody who acquired letters that started ‘My liege’.”

Jeremy expressed his confusion over how to organise the farm tools: “I subsequently did not know what I ought to throw away and what I ought to keep. And if I did determine it was price maintaining, I did not know whether or not it ought to go within the fencing division or within the animal-handling part.”

After toiling tirelessly into the night for three days, Jeremy proudly stated that the task was accomplished and “every part was in its correct place”. The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host is alleged to have bought 1,000 acres of the Sarsden property in Chipping Norton in 2008, which included Curdle Hill Farm, cultivating barley, rapeseed, and wheat in rotation.

In 2019, when the tenant retired, Jeremy took on the problem of farming himself, renaming the land to Diddly Squat Farm and sharing his farming exploits on Prime Video.