How a breakfast date led to a muddy baby

A 70% muddy Suffolk single says she had been ‘walking around in circles’ looking for love, before stumbling across Muddy Matches where she discovered exactly she was went ‘walking’ for.

Jade, who described her favourite part of the day as ‘getting up early to walk out in the fields with her dog’, started countryside dating with us in the spring of 2019. After seeing her profile attract plenty of interest, she set up a breakfast date with animal loving, agricultural engineer Sam.

Like his muddy match, Sam, and his collie Meg, were also Suffolk based, living just 15 miles from Jade. Having grown up with ‘horses, sheep, dogs, cats, chickens, and ducks’ a love of nature ticked that box, and they immediately connected over a shared interest in renovation.

“Our first date was four years ago, this month. We went for breakfast because we had pretty busy schedules, but we were keen to meet up quickly.” Jade tells us. “It has moved pretty fast and Sam and I were living together within just a few months.”

It’s safe to say then that things have been going well. So well, in fact, that they now have two-year-old Jasper in tow; and the country couple could not be prouder of their ‘muddy baby’ as they so call him.

“We weren’t planning on having children so children so quickly, by a family tragedy gave me a new perspective on life and we started trying for Jasper. He will be 3 in July.”

Those early morning dog walks have moved to afternoon strolls now, with Jasper trotting along with us.”

Rural goals may have changed, for the better, with the sound of tiny boot steps, but Jade and Sam still have ambitions of unearthing ‘a new renovation project’ with enough land to build a workshop for Sam to run his business from.  “And store his ever growing collection of classic tractors and engineering machinery,” Jade jokes.

She has plans too; enough space to have enough polytunnel to suffice her ‘veggie and flower growing needs’.

You can be rest assured that this young family will live the rural life in muddy boots together to the full.