While acknowledging that his co-star and colleague had a point, Jeremy was left “white-faced with horror and guilt” when he thought he had rescued the mouse, only for it to take shelter under the back wheel of his tractor.
Jeremy then embarked on another rescue attempt, by doing “the best hill start you’ve ever seen”.
The star ran into trouble yet again, as he recalled in his latest column for The Sunday Times: “Straight away there was a problem.
“Because as this 3.5-tonne machine rose from the ground, it pulled the tractor backwards about nine inches.