Muddy Matches is ‘a win in the murky world of online dating’

Today, the Muddy Matches team have been reflecting back on when we welcomed Oxfordshire singleton, and Daily Mail Online lifestyle journo, Lucy onto Muddy Matches in pursuit of her muddy match.

“A man who knows his cobnuts from his chestnuts (and which trees they grow on)” – that was her request.

Lucy approached us as she was looking for love in the countryside, and felt her rural dating exploits would make a pleasant change from the usual app related dating stories.

Her intentions were decent, honest and genuine, and she went on a fair number of dates with Muddy Matches members, being open about who she was, and what she was hoping to discover.

Her fun article; “How to land the only hottie in the village”, referenced Muddy Matches as the ‘the toast of the shires’. She talked of our surge in popularity during lockdown, as people went looking for the comfort in likeminded connections, based upon shared interests and common ground.

The article kindly suggested that whilst Clarkson’s Farm has led to an ‘exodus to the countryside’ and had ‘made many a midlife woman hanker after a man in green wellies’, Muddy Matches is helping make the rural goals of people from all walks of life also feel a lot closer.

Lucy brilliantly summed up rural romance and the realities of dating a farmer.

Our favourite line is: “I’ve done dinner. I’ve done coffees. I’ve done art exhibitions and visits to standing stones. I’ve done opera and theatre and museum trips, and even lunch at a beach bar in Greece. But this is the first time I’ve ever done a date at 7am in the company of farm animals.”

“This is a date like no other I have ever been on…”

And, we love to hear that.

Please enjoy the full Mail Online feature here.