Wishing all muddies a very Happy New Year! We hope that 2011 brings you everything (and everyone) you wish for. Are you single and think it’s time to make a change? Now’s a great time to start using our rural dating site, or reactivating your membership if it has lapsed, as lots of people feel… Continue reading Happy New Year…Now’s the Time to Get Online!
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I can’t thank you ladies enough for your fantastic site…
“I met you guys for the first time last year at the CLA Game Fair. You probably wouldn’t remember us – (my now boyfriend) suggested our first date should be there and to meet opposite the MM stand, as we met via your website! I can’t thank you ladies enough for your fantastic site, and… Continue reading I can’t thank you ladies enough for your fantastic site…
See Photos from the Mud Lovers Ball!
Here are a selection of photographs from our successful Mud Lovers Ball. More and more of you have been sending your feedback about the night and we are delighted that so many of you had such a good time. We are also quite excited by the number of people going out on dates as a… Continue reading See Photos from the Mud Lovers Ball!
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…
Art and Farming
You may remember that right at the beginning of our Marathon (Week 2 to be precise) we visited Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard in East Sussex. While we there we spoke to the owner, Roy Cook, about our trip and he mentioned an artist called Georgina Barney who had zigzagged her way around Great Britain working on… Continue reading Art and Farming
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
Ample Bosom
When Sally and John Robinson were looking for new ways to diversify on their farm near Helmsley, North Yorkshire, Sally came up with the idea of selling bras and lingerie on the internet and, in 1999, she launched the wonderfully-named ‘Ample Bosom’. It was certainly one of the more unusual farm diversification projects that we… Continue reading Ample Bosom
Gundog Training in Worcestershire
The morning after the Winter Wonder Ball, we headed off to Tenbury – the mistletoe capital of the UK – to meet Pip Kendrick, who set up her own business, Sporting Saint, manufacturing and supplying gundog training equipment. She also introduced us to a local friend of hers, Jeremy Sharp, who runs a gundog training… Continue reading Gundog Training in Worcestershire
Speed Dating at Harper Adams
We had a great night at the speed dating evening at Harper Adams. There were around fifty people keen to get involved, ranging from freshers to fourth-year students, and some veeeery positive answers on the cards they had to fill out about the people they chatted to. We’re convinced that some of them will be… Continue reading Speed Dating at Harper Adams
Fighting for Fordhall Farm
Following on with our theme of the lengths to which people will go to stay where they feel they belong, there is no story more inspiring than Charlotte and Ben Hollins’ battle against the odds to save their family farm and the way of life that their father believed in so passionately. When we arrived… Continue reading Fighting for Fordhall Farm