Due to popular demand, we have recently added a few new features to the website: • See who has viewed your profile – rather than just telling you the number of people who have viewed your profile, now each time you sign in you will see how many new people have viewed your profile, followed… Continue reading New Website Features!
Category: Muddy News
Our First Wedding Invitation
Hooray – it’s time to buy a hat! Those paying attention to our News Page over the last couple of months will know that we have reported a number of Muddy Matches weddings/engagements and have even had a mention in one or two best-man’s speeches, but we are bursting with excitement to have actually been… Continue reading Our First Wedding Invitation
Art & Farming in Shropshire
If you live in or around Shropshire and are free this Wednesday, you might be interested in the following: ‘I FEED THE WORLD’, A Farming & Art Party, Wednesday 10th December 5-7pm, Harper Adams University College, Shropshire An event held by Harper Adams and artist Georgina Barney, celebrating and reflecting upon connections between Farming and… Continue reading Art & Farming in Shropshire
Another Muddy Wedding!
Exciting news…two more of our members – Clare from Worcestershire and Hywel from Dyfed – are getting hitched! We met the lovely Clare on our 'Muddy Marathon' tour of the UK last year. She had kindly introduced us to Pip Kendrick of Sporting Saint (a gun dog training equipment supplier) who we subsequently spent the… Continue reading Another Muddy Wedding!
Muddy Matches Shortlisted for Rural Enterprise Award!
You might remember that, back in October, we excitedly reported that we had been nominated for a Rural Enterprise Award in the Countryside Alliance Awards. Even more exciting, the Awards are first run at a local level across 14 geographical regions…and we’ve just found out that we have been shortlisted for the East Midlands! Each… Continue reading Muddy Matches Shortlisted for Rural Enterprise Award!
TV Opportunity for Members in East Anglia
Your 15 minutes of fame? The nice people from Anglia TV have just got in touch to say that they would like to do a piece about Muddy Matches to be aired between Christmas and New Year. They are really keen to speak to any muddies in the East Anglian region and hear about your… Continue reading TV Opportunity for Members in East Anglia
Yorkshire Clay Shoot
Our first Muddy Matches clay shoot took place in North Yorkshire this weekend and was a great success. We had a fab group of people from across Yorkshire and Cumbria (and even as far as Shropshire). Lots of people hadn’t shot before but were keen to learn and everyone got really stuck in and seemed… Continue reading Yorkshire Clay Shoot
Wedding Bells
News just in…Philip from Wiltshire just rang to say that he and Fiona from Gloucestershire met on the site earlier in the year and have just got engaged! We, of course, are over the moon – we just love hearing the success stories. The wedding is planned for May next year and they have promised… Continue reading Wedding Bells
Getting Muddy at Fordhall Farm
The ‘Muddy’ Fordhall Working Weekend was a great success, with more than 20 single volunteers coming to get their hands dirty, enjoy the fresh air and meet some new like-minded people. There was a lot of work to be done, from building a disabled access path to putting up a new fence, and everyone seemed… Continue reading Getting Muddy at Fordhall Farm
Think you’ve got what it takes to be the next Jimmy Doherty?
A London-based production company are working on an exciting new Channel 4 show and are looking for a clued-up, passionate farmer to help their rookie city residents start an organic farm in their own back yard. Expertise is obviously pretty important, so the more you know about agriculture in the widest possible sense, the better… Continue reading Think you’ve got what it takes to be the next Jimmy Doherty?