{"product_id":"diddly-squat-home-to-roost-volume-4","title":"Diddly Squat: Home to Roost: Volume 4","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's been another memorable year on Diddly Squat Farm - will the chickens finally come home to roost?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Fans of Prime TV series  Clarkson's Farm  will enjoy this companion'  IRISH TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome back to Clarkson's Farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo, that went well . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe spring barley crop failed.\u003cbr\u003e\nJust like the oil seed rape.\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd the durum wheat.\u003cbr\u003e\nThen the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid and the mushrooms went mouldy.\u003cbr\u003e\nFarming sheep, pigs and cows was hardly more lucrative.  Jeremy  would be better off trying to breed ostriches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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. Not while the farm shop's still doing a roaring trade in candles that smell like his knacker hammock, he isn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the face of it, the challenges of making a success of Diddly Squat are enough to have you weeping into your (Hawkstone) beer, but misery loves company and in girlfriend  Lisa, Farm Manager Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald  his Head of Security Jeremy knows he's got the best. And it's hard for a chap to feel  too  gloomy about things when there's a JCB telehandler, a crop-spraying hovercraft and a digger in the barn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause as a wise man* once said, 'there's no man alive who wouldn't have fun with a digger . . .'\u003cbr\u003e\n*Jeremy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for  Clarkson's Farm :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The best thing Clarkson's done . . . It pains me to say this'  GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Shockingly hopeful'  INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Even the most committed Clarkson haters will find him likeable here'  TELEGRAPH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Quite lovely'  THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNumber 1  Sunday Times  bestseller, October 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54359858741616,"sku":"A2993","price":9.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_2164_b08be59538_e3e66145-f5f6-47fb-b60f-c9af569bd9ab.jpg?v=1790227871","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/diddly-squat-home-to-roost-volume-4","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}