Jennie Jacques Instagram – Easy to digest & milking a cow 🐄 is still on my bucket list ♥️ I laughed out loud at this autobiography/memoir & received an unexpected education on a portion of the politics controlling farming! Not to mention environmental awareness & the irony of some of the misinformation surrounding it. Clarkson gives a light hearted insight into rearing live stock, shearing v.cheeky sheep 🐑 & NOT eating the pigs 🐖 because, in the end, the pets are too darn cute. Clarkson surprised me & really made me smile at times… then, at other times, he didn’t 😂 – read that statement however you wish. From keeping bees 🐝 to bottling spring water 💦 it’s more than just “quite interesting,” it’s a bloody inspiring read. I imagine I’ll end up living on a farm, one day… barefoot, heavily pregnant, peeling potatoes, with a view of the sea. I hope my dream comes to fruition in this lifetime, despite my current battle with #mecfs Prior to illness I spent most of my life in & out of cities 🌃 #nyc #london #dublin chasing my career & (as planned) I bought my first property in London, so it might sound contradictory BUT in my heart I know there’s something so extraordinary & beautiful (& real) about animals & the land & the sea & just that “rural” way of living off it, which, as humans, while we can certainly destroy the beauty of the aforementioned 🙄 we simply cannot re-create it. And that’s why it’s priceless. This is a book about nature, the weather, breaking rules & diddly fcking squat. I loved it. Clarkson, as playful as he comes across, is evidently serious about farming & he grabs the bull by its horns with his middle finger up to anyone who doubts him. The author specialised in motoring, originally (if you don’t know!) so naturally there are references – prime example, he’s got a big bold Lambo tractor 🚜 💥 & teaches us duly that Lamborghini actually started out as a tractor maker! I’m not a car enthusiast by any means – I don’t even drive 😂 but the text has snippets of both superfluous & meaningful info, I enjoyed binging. SWIPE left to see me being a #sexycow 🐮 #bookrecommendations #bookreview #diddlysquat