杰里米·克拉克森：栖息地 Diddly Squat: Home to Roost

基本信息

Format:Hardback 224 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Michael Joseph Ltd

ISBN:9780241728192

Published:24 Oct 2024

Weight:500g

Dimensions:240 x 156 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

欢迎回到克拉克森农场。

一切进展顺利……

春大麦歉收。就像油菜籽一样。还有硬粒小麦。然后燕麦变成了助听器的颜色，蘑菇发霉了。饲养绵羊、猪和牛几乎没有什么利润。杰里米还是试着养鸵鸟。

但面对不合作的天气、农业经济的无情现实、官僚主义、粗暴的当地规划组织和世界对他的聪明才智和天才的持续拒绝，我们的英雄还没有被打败。当农场商店仍在做着像他的吊床一样气味的蜡烛生意时，他还没有被打败。

从表面上看，成功制作 Diddly Squat 的挑战足以让你在喝 (Hawkstone) 啤酒时哭泣，但痛苦喜欢陪伴，在女友 Lisa、农场经理 Kaleb、开朗的 Charlie 和他的安全主管 Gerald 身上，Jeremy 知道他拥有颇好的。当谷仓里有一台 JCB 伸缩臂叉车、一辆喷洒农作物的气垫船和一台挖掘机时，一个人很难对事情感到太沮丧。

因为正如一位智者*曾经说过的，“没有人会不喜欢挖掘机……”

*Jeremy

Welcome back to Clarkson’s Farm.

So, that went well …

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. Not while the farm shop’s still doing a roaring trade in candles that smell like his knacker hammock, he isn’t.

On 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.

Because as a wise man* once said, ‘there’s no man alive who wouldn’t have fun with a digger …’

*Jeremy

作者简介

杰里米·克拉克森在《罗瑟勒姆广告报》开始了他的写作生涯。从那时起，他为《太阳报》、《星期日泰晤士报》、《罗奇代尔观察家报》、《伍尔弗汉普顿快报和星报》、所有肯特联合报和林肯郡生活报撰稿。多年来，他一直是电视上高的人。他现在住在牛津郡的迪德里斯夸特农场，在那里学习成为一名农民。

Jeremy Clarkson began his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the Sun, the Sunday Times, the Rochdale Observer, the Wolverhampton Express & Star, all of the Associated Kent Newspapers and Lincolnshire Life. He was, for many years, the tallest person on television. He now lives on Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire where he is learning to become a farmer.