TURNER'S TORQUE

Last month I mentioned that freedom was on the horizon, and I can happily report that I’ve had a taste of it, and it was wonderful!

I was able to visit Wales for the first time in over a year. I took the amazing Cupra Formentor along some of my favourite Welsh roads, and doing my bit to help the local economy I bought and cooked a burger (or two) on the shoreline of Llyn Brenig reservoir - it felt good to have a proper day out. The weather was good, too.

If you follow us on social media (you’ve no excuse not to), you may have also noticed that last week I returned to Wales again, this time with Lauren, the Media Officer for GLASS and Roy from 4x4 Obsession. We explored a lane or two, but the jaunt was mainly so Roy could take a few photos of the new Defender 90 I had on loan.

There have also been tentative steps towards normality with a few shows popping up, on the horizon. Last week Muddy Madam and I had a trip to Stoneleigh for the National Camping Show to check out new kit, and coming up we are planning on visiting the Adventure Overland Show down at Stratford-Upon-Avon on the 5th-6th June. If you are going, look out for Muddy Madam and myself (I’m not sure which day we’ll be attending yet), and if you spot us, don’t be shy, say hello!

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muddy madam's moment

One of the things that is a real bonus about writing and creating a digital magazine is that you can do it anywhere you have an internet connection, or at least that was the idea when we started The Mud Life.

The goal was to be able to head off, travel around, drive a shed load of cars, do some fun bits and still earn a living, but that isn't the current reality.....yet.

No, the reality involves a lot of sitting at the kitchen table tapping away at computer keyboard, writing articles, editing photos, creating videos, designing t-shirts/art, sourcing products to feature, doing mailouts, fighting IT fires, oh and an the never-ending agony of trying to figure out what's for dinner.

We freely admit that we started the mag with no clue what we were doing. Damian had to figure out how to write 95% of the mag himself, whilst still having another job. I had to teach myself the entire Adobe software platform to be able to put the mag together, and between us we also had to figure out all the other back end stuff that goes along with it.

To say that we've both been on a steep learning curve ever since would be an understatement, but we think we are getting the hang of it nowadays. We hope you think so too.

So this is where you come in to it...

Now that most shops and leisure businesses are reopening, and we are (fingers crossed) heading towards a more normal outlook, we'd love to get back to working towards our original goal, but to get anywhere close to achieving this we need to get the mag seen by even more people, and as there is only the two of us, this is where I'd like you, dear reader, to help us out....

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