Photo call – Fab photos from around the world!

Around the world in…………………..6 photos!! We’ve found some great snaps taken by our members from various famous locations around the world.  If you would like to find out more about them and their travels, click on the images below – this will take you straight to their profile.

Photo Call – Relax, Have Fun and Enjoy a Drink or Two!

Looking forward to the weekend?   Then relax, have fun and enjoy a drink or two! If you fancy catching up with any of these members and maybe even arranging a drink between yourselves,  click on the images below to take you to that person’s profile so that you can find out more about them!

Photo Call – Royal Wedding Fever

You’d have to have been living in a nuclear bunker for the last few months not to know that there is a certain Royal Wedding happening this Friday (29th April). Love it or hate it, it’s fast approaching and the whole world has gone Will and Kate crazy!  We thought we’d throw in our tuppence… Continue reading Photo Call – Royal Wedding Fever

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

Arrow Farm Shop

We popped into hundreds of farm shops on our travels, ranging from lean-to sheds to supermarket-style food emporiums, so we were really pleased to add a proper family-run farm shop visit to our itinerary in the last week of our Marathon. Dinah and Richard Blagg opened Arrow Farm Shop on their farm near Worksop in… Continue reading Arrow Farm Shop

Entrepreneurship and Beagling

Back in September we were helping out at a Young Countryside Alliance Ball in Northamptonshire and got talking to Philip Price, who had provided the bucking bronco and laser shooting for the evening. At that time we were in the process of organising our Muddy Marathon and were looking for interesting young rural entrepreneurs to… Continue reading Entrepreneurship and Beagling

Horse Play at the National Stud

We don’t know much about horses and we know even less about racing, but when an opportunity arose to look round the National Stud, we jumped at the chance to get an insight into a world that we know so little about. Created in 1916 when Lord Wavertree presented his stud and bloodstock to the… Continue reading Horse Play at the National Stud