Trop de Paris!
OPINION: Your old mate's ear has been chewed off recently by farmers voicing their displeasure with the National Party, particularly relating to how they're treating their farmer base.
Probably tongue firmly in cheek, they suggest radio host Mike Hosking - now the owner of a lifestyle block near Matakana, a once-sleepy town near Warkworth, now overrun with Auckland luvvies in loafers and black BMWs.
If Hosking is the answer though, you've asked the wrong question.
The problem we'd have finding a local version of Clarkson's Farm is, we don't have any real celebrities, and if we did, they wouldn't be able to afford (or run) a real farm.
Sir Colin Meads has sadly left us, but 'Pinetree's Place' could've been a winner.
