{"id":8428,"date":"2021-09-03T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2024-01-23T17:48:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T17:48:31","slug":"diddly-squat-farm-shop-chipping-norton-an-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/diddly-squat-farm-shop-chipping-norton-an-anomaly\/","title":{"rendered":"Diddly Squat Farm Shop, Chipping Norton – An anomaly!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If I were to suggest that you should drive several hours to a random country road in the Cotswolds to see a small farm shop you would think I was bonkers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One man, known for his wit, cars, media columns and now his farm have turned a small spot on the edge of a field into the equivalent of a Diddly Mecca, except it\u2019s called Diddley Squat Farm Shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was on our way to London and said to my wife lets deviate and go via Chipping Norton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now for those that know their geography they will know that a journey from Manchester to London doesn’t pass anywhere close to Chipping Norton, but deviate we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year I thoroughly enjoyed the Amazon series called The Farm created by the legendary Jeremy Clarkson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve not seen it, you must! It is hilarious and yet is full of really interesting Clarkson facts on running a farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He buys a farm with no knowledge or experience and with the enlisted help of others begins his new venture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my mind, we would likely arrive at Diddly Squat Farm far from any cities and find that there was literally no-one there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was absolutely gobsmacked! The place was heaving! … more bizarrely, there were queues for a shop the size of a small shed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The genius of this place lies in the madness that Clarkson has created … watch the series and you’ll discover more about the Bee Juice (honey), Moo Juice (Milk) and The Dogs Bollocks (wax).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a cows shed that is serving some drinks and food that overlooks a bare field, porta loos and parking for hundreds of cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go figure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If I were to suggest that you should drive several hours to a random country road in the Cotswolds to see a small farm shop you would think I was bonkers! One man, known for his wit, cars, media columns and now his farm have turned a small spot on the edge of a field…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,1095,1096,128,226],"tags":[1099,1097],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attractions","category-chipping-norton","category-diddly-squat-farm","category-food","category-uk","tag-chipping-norton","tag-diddly-squat-farm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_3769-2-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ZU0a-2bW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14237,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions\/14237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}