Clarkson’s Farm

[NDA]

Sway said:

TheDeuce said:

NDA said:

48k said:

"So I went to see West Oxfordshire District Council expecting no help at all, and blow me down it was very happy to close the dogging site."

Do you need planning for a dogging site?

I was thinking the same, how do you 'close' a dogging site!?

Couple of bushes, fat bird in an old Mégane = dogging can commence!

National Trust near me put entrance gates and lock them at about 11pm.

Do you need a ticket to get in?

[MesoForm]

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

[FiF]

NDA said:

Sway said:

TheDeuce said:

NDA said:

48k said:

"So I went to see West Oxfordshire District Council expecting no help at all, and blow me down it was very happy to close the dogging site."

Do you need planning for a dogging site?

I was thinking the same, how do you 'close' a dogging site!?

Couple of bushes, fat bird in an old Mégane = dogging can commence!

National Trust near me put entrance gates and lock them at about 11pm.

Do you need a ticket to get in?

You'd think NT would first set up a pop up cafe with tea and scones. And masks, doggers need masks based on C4 documentary.

[Sway]

FiF said:

NDA said:

Sway said:

TheDeuce said:

NDA said:

48k said:

"So I went to see West Oxfordshire District Council expecting no help at all, and blow me down it was very happy to close the dogging site."

Do you need planning for a dogging site?

I was thinking the same, how do you 'close' a dogging site!?

Couple of bushes, fat bird in an old Mégane = dogging can commence!

National Trust near me put entrance gates and lock them at about 11pm.

Do you need a ticket to get in?

You'd think NT would first set up a pop up cafe with tea and scones. And masks, doggers need masks based on C4 documentary.

Apols, I've been informed I'm an idiot who can't tell the difference between the NT and the Forestry Commission. No charges in carpark.

I've also been informed I shouldn't be thinking about dogging sites.

[FiF]

Sway said:

FiF said:

NDA said:

Sway said:

TheDeuce said:

NDA said:

48k said:

"So I went to see West Oxfordshire District Council expecting no help at all, and blow me down it was very happy to close the dogging site."

Do you need planning for a dogging site?

I was thinking the same, how do you 'close' a dogging site!?

Couple of bushes, fat bird in an old Mégane = dogging can commence!

National Trust near me put entrance gates and lock them at about 11pm.

Do you need a ticket to get in?

You'd think NT would first set up a pop up cafe with tea and scones. And masks, doggers need masks based on C4 documentary.

Apols, I've been informed I'm an idiot who can't tell the difference between the NT and the Forestry Commission. No charges in carpark.

I've also been informed I shouldn't be thinking about dogging sites.

Blimey FC locking car parks at 11pm. Luxury! It's 8pm round here, 5pm outside the summer months, and a massive 'fine' if you have to call out the grumpy old fart with the keys to let you out. That's on top of the £6 parking fee already paid.


Just for the LoLs

https://youtu.be/5u4hAxi5b6o?si=p92wtoXhqZkNXdc-

[PurpleTurtle]

I happened to be camping in the Chipping Norton area at the weekend, with my 9yo son and a load of other families from his primary school.

Being July in the UK it was of course pissing it down. One of the dads suggested lunch at Diddly Squat Farm and having checked that 14 quid for a burger and chips was just about palatable we all set off there.

I was last car to arrive and it was utter bedlam, traffic absolutely everywhere, no marshalling of parking, just complete chaos. I asked my lad if we could be bothered to stop, he said no, so we carried on to Hook Norton Brewery which is actually geared up for the number of visitors it expects to handle. We had a delightful fish and chip lunch in their warm inviting Malthouse Kitchen cafe bar, the rest of our mob joined us later on complaining about the total carnage up at JC's place.

I won't be going back to Diddly Squat, but I would definitely recommend Hook Norton Brewery if in the area.

[Red9zero]

PurpleTurtle said:

I happened to be camping in the Chipping Norton area at the weekend, with my 9yo son and a load of other families from his primary school.

Being July in the UK it was of course pissing it down. One of the dads suggested lunch at Diddly Squat Farm and having checked that 14 quid for a burger and chips was just about palatable we all set off there.

I was last car to arrive and it was utter bedlam, traffic absolutely everywhere, no marshalling of parking, just complete chaos. I asked my lad if we could be bothered to stop, he said no, so we carried on to Hook Norton Brewery which is actually geared up for the number of visitors it expects to handle. We had a delightful fish and chip lunch in their warm inviting Malthouse Kitchen cafe bar, the rest of our mob joined us later on complaining about the total carnage up at JC's place.

I won't be going back to Diddly Squat, but I would definitely recommend Hook Norton Brewery if in the area.

I think they assume people know how to park properly, which they don't. We parked in the corner when we went and sure enough, someone decided to park behind us and block us in. It was nice to go just so we could say we`d been, but I don't think I`d rush back. My favourite cafes in the area were Blakes Kitchen at Clanfield and a bit further out, The Jolly Nice Farm Shop at Frampton Mansell, which even has a drive through.

[Oceanrower]

MesoForm said:

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

Chocolate, rice, pineapples, oranges, etc.

No lemons or limes.

It’d be a strange pub that didn’t offer orange juice…

[TheDeuce]

MesoForm said:

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

I'm sure Clarkson is very happy to not cater to people that go to the pub to drink tea

[Flumpo]

TheDeuce said:

MesoForm said:

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

I'm sure Clarkson is very happy to not cater to people that go to the pub to drink tea

He might change his mind when he sees the profit margin in a cup of tea compared to a pint.

[MrBig]

From a business point of view, you can't fault it.

Spend Jeff's money on the pub, get another 2/3 series of the most popular show in the UK on Amazon Prime, plus securing a closed supply chain for the farm produce giving control of the pricing...

Plenty of business owners would love to be able to do the same.

[TheDeuce]

Flumpo said:

TheDeuce said:

MesoForm said:

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

I'm sure Clarkson is very happy to not cater to people that go to the pub to drink tea

He might change his mind when he sees the profit margin in a cup of tea compared to a pint.

I actually think beer, on the basis the raw ingredients are worth virtually nothing, might be cheaper - provided you make it yourself, which he effectively does.

Also people who drink tea in pubs are too sensible.you need someone who'll drink 7 beers and talk bks at the bar, ideally.

[Doofus]

They'll run out of beer within fifteen minutes of opening on day one. Thereafter, there'll be huge queues snaking around the building, standing room only and a limit of one pint per customer, which you'll have to drink in a marquee on the field next door.

Oh, and you'll be able to buy a bottle of James May's gin for £100, or a t-shirt with "I drank grown-up juice at The Diddly Squatting Dog" for £65.

[Oceanrower]

TheDeuce said:

I actually think beer, on the basis the raw ingredients are worth virtually nothing, might be cheaper - provided you make it yourself, which he effectively does.

Teabag. 1p.
Milk. 3p.
Water. 0p (as near as makes no difference.)

Beer. Duty - £21 per litre of pure alcohol…

[pingu393]

PurpleTurtle said:

I happened to be camping in the Chipping Norton area at the weekend, with my 9yo son and a load of other families from his primary school.

Being July in the UK it was of course pissing it down. One of the dads suggested lunch at Diddly Squat Farm and having checked that 14 quid for a burger and chips was just about palatable we all set off there.

I was last car to arrive and it was utter bedlam, traffic absolutely everywhere, no marshalling of parking, just complete chaos. I asked my lad if we could be bothered to stop, he said no, so we carried on to Hook Norton Brewery which is actually geared up for the number of visitors it expects to handle. We had a delightful fish and chip lunch in their warm inviting Malthouse Kitchen cafe bar, the rest of our mob joined us later on complaining about the total carnage up at JC's place.

I won't be going back to Diddly Squat, but I would definitely recommend Hook Norton Brewery if in the area.

This is why the local hosteleries are so welcoming of JC buying a pub. They know that they will get the spillover, and the chances are it will be the discerning ones who can't be bothered to wait two hours to buy a £14 burger.

[Nexus Icon]

thatsprettyshady said:

98elise said:

AdeTuono said:

pork911 said:

andymc said:

C Lee Farquar said:

Just to clarify, the shop is a fair distance from Chadlington, but next to a camp site and a gypsy site.

In 2021 four families applied for permission to stay elsewhere as the site next to Clarkson's was too dangerous to bring up a family! They got turned down too.

Google The Beeches, Chipping Norton for all the news about the inter family rivalry and murders. It's not a sleepy hamlet

travellers being travellers, quelle surprise

More ph hate speech, quelle surprise

How is that 'hate speech'?

Pork911 is our resident defender of travellers. He was the same on another thread about travellers behavior, then started adding comments about Jews (which got his posts deleted and possibly a short ban).

We currently have a set of travelling folk occupying the local parks. The pub opposite the first one had to shut due to their behavior.

They arrive, cause havoc locally, and leave crap everywhere (sometimes literally) when they leave. They have just moved on from the second park and it's strewn with litter.

Likewise that's not hate speech is an observation.

This, every time these friendly people turn up the pubs all have to shut and the local park becomes a no-go zone. Might be unrelated I suppose.

Just to counter all this - which definitely happens a lot of the time - we had some travellers camp up on a road near us, where the 'grass verge' is about 40 feet wide. Transit pick-ups, couple of ponies, caravans from the 70's, the works. When they left, 6 weeks or so later, it was immaculate bar a couple of probably unavoidable ruts from the rain-sodden ground and RWD Transit combos and a sign staked into the verge saying, "Thank you for having us and for understanding."

Fair warms the heart, stuff like that.

[Sway]

Nexus Icon said:

Just to counter all this - which definitely happens a lot of the time - we had some travellers camp up on a road near us, where the 'grass verge' is about 40 feet wide. Transit pick-ups, couple of ponies, caravans from the 70's, the works. When they left, 6 weeks or so later, it was immaculate bar a couple of probably unavoidable ruts from the rain-sodden ground and RWD Transit combos and a sign staked into the verge saying, "Thank you for having us and for understanding."

Fair warms the heart, stuff like that.

I have a feeling the demographic of those travellers was somewhat different to the majority.

I've met a few Romani, and lots of Irish. Very different!

[BenS94]

Sway said:

Nexus Icon said:

Just to counter all this - which definitely happens a lot of the time - we had some travellers camp up on a road near us, where the 'grass verge' is about 40 feet wide. Transit pick-ups, couple of ponies, caravans from the 70's, the works. When they left, 6 weeks or so later, it was immaculate bar a couple of probably unavoidable ruts from the rain-sodden ground and RWD Transit combos and a sign staked into the verge saying, "Thank you for having us and for understanding."

Fair warms the heart, stuff like that.

I have a feeling the demographic of those travellers was somewhat different to the majority.

I've met a few Romani, and lots of Irish. Very different!

I do wish most of them were like that!

[TheDeuce]

Oceanrower said:

TheDeuce said:

I actually think beer, on the basis the raw ingredients are worth virtually nothing, might be cheaper - provided you make it yourself, which he effectively does.

Teabag. 1p.
Milk. 3p.
Water. 0p (as near as makes no difference.)

Beer. Duty - £21 per litre of pure alcohol…

That's beer duty, not really a 'cost', it just serves to inflate the final price.

Anyhow, I just googled it and so far as I can work out the average ingredients cost for mass brewed beer is about 10p a pint.

Probably about the same as a pot of tea once sachets of sugar and a biscuit have been added in!

[Zetec-S]

TheDeuce said:

Flumpo said:

TheDeuce said:

MesoForm said:

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

I'm sure Clarkson is very happy to not cater to people that go to the pub to drink tea

He might change his mind when he sees the profit margin in a cup of tea compared to a pint.

I actually think beer, on the basis the raw ingredients are worth virtually nothing, might be cheaper - provided you make it yourself, which he effectively does.

Also people who drink tea in pubs are too sensible.you need someone who'll drink 7 beers and talk bks at the bar, ideally.

He could just get Lisa to source all the "UK" ingredients