Tag: countryside social events

I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed being on MM and the pleasure it has brought me…

“Dear Muddy Matches.  As probably one of the members of MM living closest to the Red Lion, I must sadly decline your kind invitation to the Pub Grub night because I am going out on a date with [someone] who I met through MM in January. So it does work!!  Incidentally, the Red Lion is… Continue reading I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed being on MM and the pleasure it has brought me…

We have been inseparable and are moving in together…

“Hi Lucy & Emma.  I just had your Email through about the Wellie Speed Dating Event and thought I should drop you a quick Email to ask you to remove me from your Email list.  You probably won’t remember me as I know you have so many members- but I came to the Newmarket/Tattersalls speed… Continue reading We have been inseparable and are moving in together…

How to Pick a Winner for the Grand National

For those of you who don’t know, Saturday 5th April is Grand National day – one of the world’s toughest and most prestigious horse races.  Picking a winner is never easy but for lots of information about the event, why not visit the Grand National 2008 website. And if you can’t make your mind up,… Continue reading How to Pick a Winner for the Grand National

Drinks at RAF Leeming

Opportunities like this one don’t come around very often. When an article came out about our Muddy Marathon in Country Life, we got a phone call from one of the boys from RAF Leeming inviting us to come and look round the base and go to Happy Hour in their mess. How could we refuse?!… Continue reading Drinks at RAF Leeming

Being Model Fisherwomen in North Yorkshire

Whilst in Yorkshire, we were invited down to Raygill Fisheries, in the heart of the Dales just outside Lothersdale, to take a look round and do a spot of fishing.  Previously a lime quarry, Bernard Clement bought it in 1987, landscaped the site and began to stock trout. Twenty years later, they have four lakes… Continue reading Being Model Fisherwomen in North Yorkshire

Forraging for Food with James Burton

We spent an action-packed day with professional chef, mean shot and founder of Vallum Cooking, James Burton.  Based on a Northumbrian smallholding on Hadrian’s Wall (‘vallum’ refers to the deep ditch that runs alongside the wall), James is passionate about seasonal and locally-sourced food and, with his own rare breed Middle White pigs, the shooting… Continue reading Forraging for Food with James Burton

The Bathurst Arms

Here’s a story that made us laugh while we were eavesdropping in the Bathurst Arms, near Cirencester, where we held one of our Pub Socials. The pub has just been awarded 2008 GOOD PUB GUIDE Gloucestershire Dining Pub of the Year and whilst we were there all the regulars were congratulating James, the landlord. It… Continue reading The Bathurst Arms

The Royal Oak, Winsford

We ventured to Exmoor to put on one of our Pub Grub Nights and decided to try the Royal Oak in Winsford as we had heard the food was really good. After a blustery journey over some of the darkest, narrowest lanes we have encountered so far, we were greeted by Ed and Kirsty, the… Continue reading The Royal Oak, Winsford