Colour Me Happy

“Well colour me happy, there’s a sofa in here for two. Fifty bucks, Grandpa. For seventy-five, the wife can watch", Horses, farming, country life

[Colour Me Happy @ColourHappyMe]

We were there last year, first experience of the game.
Fascinating, we had a great evening watching the Blue Jays and New York Yankees
Fans now

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

To the best fans in baseball:

We'll miss you. See you in 2025 💙🇨🇦

[Colour Me Happy @ColourHappyMe]

@PFNicholls we are in the area for National racehorse week and wondered if you had an open day?

[Colour Me Happy @ColourHappyMe]

@DavidPipeRacing we are in the area for National racehorse week and wondered if you had an open day?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Michael Harris @mjyharris]

Happy retirement Galopin Des Champs.

[Colour Me Happy @ColourHappyMe]

@RachelReevesMP @grok how true are the above claims by the chancellor

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

Farmers and their tractors are back in central London on a new protest, amid concern over the direction of government policy 🚜🪧

📹 Andy Corner

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Giving DEFRA civil servants the honest truth on behalf of every farmer in the country.

[Leopardstown RC @LeopardstownRC]

The Team Who Made It All Possible 👏

After a challenging week and a rescheduled fixture, huge credit goes to the Leopardstown team whose hard work and dedication delivered racing and a successful Dublin Racing Festival 2026.

A massive bualadh bos to everyone involved.💜

[Ben Pauling Racing @benpauling1]

🏆 THE HAWKSTONIAN – FIRST WIN! 🏆

BIG day at @FfosLasRC as #TheHawkstonian lands his first career win — never in doubt really, being co-owned by @JeremyClarkson & Hawkstone! 🍺🦅

Huge congratulations to all his owners, especially those who braved the Welsh weather 🌧️ (the others were busy doing very serious analysis in a certain pub 🍻😉).

Cracking ride from Ben , superbly looked after by Eliza, with our Head Lass, Gill in the engine room as ever 💥

Better pour ourselves a beer… 🍺

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Jeremy Clarkson has officially won his battle with West Oxfordshire District Council to keep the 170-space car park at The Farmer’s Dog.

Planning officer Kelly Murray admitted that the pub attracts an "unusual level of traffic" and conceded that blocking the car park would only cause dangerous roadside chaos.

She ultimately ruled that "the public interest in granting permission outweighs any slight harm caused," securing the pub's future against the "muddy chaos" that had plagued the village of Asthall.

[At The Races @AtTheRaces]

Sir Henry Cecil - a true racing icon!

Remembering the great trainer on what would have been his 83rd birthday.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

A political party’s manifesto should be legally binding. When voted into power, if the policies outlined in their manifesto are not implemented within an adequate timeframe, or deviation is attempted. An immediate general election should be invoked, allowing the public to better hold governments accountable.

[Farmers Guardian @FarmersGuardian]

Clarkson's Farm has been confirmed for a sixth season, despite previous comments from @JeremyClarkson that season five could mark the end of the show. 🙌

Mr Clarkson said: "I said I'll stop doing them when there are no more ideas. But I've got two quite good ones, so we'll do six and then we'll see…"

READ MORE: https://t.co/hJqNsDUJ52

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

🚜🪧 Tractors outside Tesco’s Hinckley depot earlier this morning. Farmers are demanding higher farmgate prices — fair pay for those who produce our food

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Meanwhile, in the Scottish Highlands…❄️🚜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[The potting shed @GardenerFliss]

Seriously weather warning for tomorrow here in Staffordshire. Our farm has its snowploughs and tractors ready to help our local community and clear roads. Farmers all over the country are doing the same. We don’t just grow food…. Wave to a farmer if you see one out in the snow. @TWBFarms @NoFarmsNoFoods @FarmersWeekly @FarmersGuardian @Radmore_farm @JeremyClarkson @Farmer_Tom_UK @TheFarmingForum

[Colour Me Happy @ColourHappyMe]

@Albiestar Dear Colin

Sorry I was late, here’s your #snowday. I made it a good drop more so you should get your day off
Best Wishes
Snow ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

[Farmers Guardian @FarmersGuardian]

What could be more relaxing than watching a herd of Highlands making their way back to the hill? 🐮

🎥 Kitchen Coos & Ewes
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#farming #highlandcows #farmlife

[mick fitzgerald @mickfitzg]

Altior looking very regal in 2026

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

Merry Christmas to everyone who keeps British farming going 🚜 🇬🇧