Best Rural Retailer

Support the countryside community by nominating your favourite rural retailer in this Countryside Alliance competition. You can nominate in one or more of four categories: Best Local Food Retailer Best Village Shop/ Post Office Best Diversification Daily Telegraph Best Traditional Business The competition was launched in 2005 with 600 nominations.  Last year 2000 nominations were… Continue reading Best Rural Retailer

Beans, Glorious Beans

It might be raining cats and dogs outside but it has been raining Jelly Belly beans in the Muddy Matches office this afternoon. Jelly Belly UK, one of our sponsors, has just sent over a big box of sample packets and, in an attempt not to munch them all ourselves, we’ll post a few packets… Continue reading Beans, Glorious Beans

First things first

Anyone remember our fishing competition?  If you’ve joined the website after March 1st you might just be wondering what the devil we’re talking about but if you do remember – yes, there were some winners – it just takes a little longer than you might think to launch a news page! So after painstakingly writing… Continue reading First things first