Jeremy Clarkson has spoken about the happiest moment of his farming career so far - being a cow midwife.
The TV presenter - who owns Diddly Squat farm, a thousand-acre plot of land in Chipping Norton - wrote in his recent Sunday Times column that he “was smiling a smile that I simply didn’t think would be possible in any kind of workplace” after helping a cow give birth.
“I was on my own, and I don’t mind admitting I was nervous,” he wrote.
He said about the experience: “I was exhausted, my arms felt as though they were on fire, I was covered in slimy cow juice and faeces and I was smiling a smile that I simply didn’t think would be possible in any kind of workplace.”
“I don’t know what would have happened had I not been there. But I was,” he added.
“And now there is the most adorable little calf you’ve ever seen.
“I’m not exaggerating. I was enveloped in a Ready Brek glow of absolute joy, from the soles of my feet to the follicles on the top of my head.”
“I’ve had some happy moments in farming but nothing gets even remotely close to this.”
Clarkson also helped another cow give birth, leading him to believe he has now found his calling at 65.
“And now here I am, a month off my 65th birthday, at a time when I should be thinking of taking up watercolour painting or pickleball,” he wrote.
“And all I want to do from now on is to be a midwife. For cows.”
He has also taken up pickleball, as Clarkson recently took to Instagram to reveal a nasty injury after playing the sport.
The post was flooded with comments, with a lot of fans asking how he managed to sustain the blood-soaked injury.
One joked: “You seemed to have gotten your self into a right pickle there Jeremy!”
Pickleball combines parts of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong, and while the cult sport dates back to 1965 in the US, it has only recently seen a surge of popularity here across the pond.
