Jeremy Clarkson Shocker!!

Kev Lewis · #26 (**permalink**) 29-01-2007, 07:55 AM

Clarkson, birthday suit, fields of grey 4" high barley.

I sooo want to be sick right now lmao

ps eeyore thanks for the dog liver warning

MazH · #27 (**permalink**) 29-01-2007, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Blackdog

Good on yer' Jeremy. I nearly fell off my chair when I heard him admit to being an RSPB member.
What species was he trying to encourage I wonder?

My sentiments exactly...but I notice no one has replied with any suggestions - surely someone knows why barley?

Blackdog · #28 (**permalink**) 29-01-2007, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Kev Lewis

ps eeyore thanks for the dog liver warning

I'd heard about Polar Bear liver being like this before, but dog liver was a suprise - it would almost be like cannibalism...

Susie · #29 (**permalink**) 29-01-2007, 09:36 AM

You lot are weird!

smartie · #30 (**permalink**) 29-01-2007, 11:17 AM

I wish I hadn't read this thread, it's made me grumpy. No problem with the eating dogs stuff, but Jeremy Clarkson makes me feel ill. The trouble is I think he does believe his hype. He just pretends he's joking.

Kymba · #31 (**permalink**) 29-01-2007, 02:00 PM

Found these couple of Articles.. when researching what birds barley attracts:

Geese can cause problems by grazing winter barley. This is sown in September, so is a few inches high when the geese are here. Given the chance, the geese will graze this crop as an alternative to beet.

A spring cereal crop, undersown with a grass/legume seed mix, is grown and harvested to provide breeding and foraging opportunities for birds (e.g. skylark, corn bunting) and Brown Hare.
By sprinkling a few grains of winter barley in my wheat seed there is now food in my wheat crop as winter barley becomes edible 3 weeks before winter wheat. All our buntings and field mice take advantage of the winter barley.

Winter stubbles provide seed food for birds in the form of spilt grain and seeds of weeds that germinated with the preceding crop. The best stubbles for birds are ones with no pre-harvest or post-harvest herbicides, which can be left untouched until at least mid-February. These stubbles may be funded by agri-environment schemes. Barley stubbles generally support more birds than wheat stubbles.

In America
Grain Fields Barley, and to a lesser extent, oats, help meet the fall nutritional requirements of migratory waterfowl. The refuge crop is also intended to attract early migrating waterfowl away from privately grown crops in the Basin. Barley is the predominant crop grown on Lower Klamath, planted by cooperative farmers or the refuge staff. In the case of a cooperative farming agreement, seed, cultivation, and weed control are provided in return for 66 percent of the harvest. The remainder is left standing for wildlife. If the field is farmed by refuge staff, the entire crop is left standing for wildlife. Reclamation leases are on a cash basis, thus the entire field is harvested with waste grain left after harvest as a food source for wildlife.

When barley fields are dry in the fall, they are used primarily by dabbling ducks and geese. Beginning in the late fall to early winter, fields are pre-irrigated in preparation for spring planting. At this time they receive heavy use by waterfowl, especially dabbling ducks, geese, and swans. Flooding also forces rodents from their burrows making them available to a variety of raptors and wading birds. When water is removed from the fields in the spring, large concentrations of shorebirds use these fields.

Garden Carpet · #32 (**permalink**) 29-01-2007, 04:24 PM

What interesting articles. Thank you Kymba. So has no one thought of emailing MrC to see what/why. The guy irritates the heck out of me but I do so enjoy reading his column in the papers. He has a wonderfully irreverant outlook on life.

honeybee · #33 (**permalink**) 29-01-2007, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by eeyore

talking of such things i was disgusted to see in the observer food monthly special thing a recipe for cooking puffins

no i'm not kidding - they poached them in milk , outrageous, when i have calmed down sufficiently so as not to let rip with a tirade of four letter abuse , i will email their editor and leave him in no doubt where he can shove my subscription

what next sautee'd penquin , fricase ala wolf, deep fried spaniel

They're part of the icelandic diet aren't they along with ponies and salted fish. Awful to advocate eating them in Britain though as they're becoming endangered due to less sand eels.

As for Clarkson, i do watch top-gear, he can be funny but I am offended by some of the stuff he comes out with. He may not mean it seriously but I should think a lot of brain donor boy and girl racers think what he says is gospel. What was that controversy about him running a Fox down in his car because it ate his chickens? Think he lives near Chipping Norton. His mum had a paddington bear factory in Doncaster (his "who do you think you are" was quite interesting.)

Blackdog · #34 (**permalink**) 29-01-2007, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by honeybee

Think he lives near Chipping Norton.

He has a big place on the outskirts according to my Son who drives past it regularly. He also has a house on the Isle of Man where his wife hails from.

dav56 · #35 (**permalink**) 06-02-2007, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Dan Salter

Ok so im not into cars at all...i want an old green landy ! but....I do love the humour and chemistry between Jeremy clarkson, Hammond and the other one on top gear !
I think it was new series tonight ...anyway they showed Hammys high speed crash...rather horrible....but....during the interview with Jamie Oliver about growing food and stuff...Jeremy said

" I grew a field of barley at my house and i didnt use fertilizer to be green and it all came up short and grey"

"Why the hell were you growing barley "...says Oliver

"Hmm...well...(Covers mouth to muffle words) It was to attract a certain species of bird...im a bit of a birder..Im an rspb member !"....says clarkson !

Clarkson being a birder might explain why they always test the cars in very quiet areas of the country. This week being a perfect example, they tested three cars in the Scottish countryside. They do the testing and then Clarkson goes out for a bit of bird watching when the cameras are swithched off. Now that would be an excellent photo for the gallery, catching the supposedly most unenvironmentaly friendly person on TV dressed up in appropriate birding gear & not his trade mark jeans and suit jacket.

MazH · #36 (**permalink**) 06-02-2007, 10:26 AM

Thanks to Kymba for the clues about why Clarkson might be growing barley...
I reckon even if someone caught him birding he'd still be wearing his jeans - surely they're welded on!

wyevilla · #37 (**permalink**) 06-02-2007, 10:48 AM

Now clarkson in a Barbour... or a cagoule. That would be worth seeing!

Blackdog · #38 (**permalink**) 06-02-2007, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by wyevilla

Now clarkson in a Barbour... or a cagoule. That would be worth seeing!

I seem to remember all three of them dressed in Barbours and Hunter wellies in one episode. I can't remember what they were up to, but I do recall it was the first time I saw Hammond's Labradoodle, "Top Gear Dog".