No one likes a show-off as my granny used to say but we can’t help ourselves in this case – Muddy Stilettos has made the national newspapers! We are thrilled to discover that we popped up in the Sunday Express S magazine at the weekend, where we were recommended as a must-read blog – a ‘stylish online haven’, no less.

It can be a lonely grind running a blog from your kitchen table (and tough on the waistline – try avoiding the biscuit barrel when it’s a Mr Tickle arm away) but I’m super-amazed at how Muddy’ has grown over the last five years  – we now cover 18 counties across the south (with an assault on the north in the works), and over 300,000 of you subscribe to our newsletters – yeah go on, eat that national glossies! Anyway, that’s quite enough trumpet-tooting from me, I’m off to have a celebratory tipple. Bottoms up!

Words: Hero Brown