Dating Advice

Taking the Next Step – Living Together

June 22, 2015

The longer I work in the dating industry, and the more I come to understand the dating world, unfortunately the more bad dating advice I read. Anyone can call him or herself a dating expert, and one of the reasons I was so keen to set up industry [...]

Dating Mistakes – My YouTube Video with Calum McSwiggan for Switchboard

June 20, 2015

As part of Pride Month, the charity LGBT Switchboard, and YouTuber Calum McSwiggan, have produced a series of daily videos. The videos are a mix of educational and hilariously comical videos, involving some of the biggest LGBT YouTubers around [...]

The A-Z of Dating Apps in 2015 – A to F

May 14, 2015

With new dating apps appearing every week, it can be hard to navigate your way from one catchy one-word app to the next. And yet most coverage of the world of dating apps (rather sadly!) focusses only on Tinder and Happn. After searching long [...]

Dating Advice – Transform Your Online Dating Profile

May 12, 2015

As some of you will know, each month on Time Out I’m now writing dating advice. This month I’ve been writing about online dating profiles, and how to easily improve them – check out the article here. Charly [...]

London Date Ideas – Sky Garden, Duck & Waffle, Go Ape & Voltaire

May 10, 2015

Every week on 30 Dates, I cover some of the best places in London to take a date … whether you’ve never met before, or wake up to each other every morning. This week I’ve seen London from above from a couple of different vantage [...]

Dating in Your Thirties – Those Awkward, but Important, Questions

May 6, 2015

The Rugby Boy and I hit the 6 month mark last month. To be honest, in the past, that’s been something of an ejector-seat button for me and relationships. It’s been a running joke throughout the early stages of our relationship that [...]

London Singles Event Calendar – May 2015

May 6, 2015

May is here 🙂 And it actually looks like quite a quiet month for singles events … though the good news is that June is still really busy. Click HERE for my list of weird and wonderful London singles events, and also keep an eye out for new [...]

Dating & Relationship Advice – The Pros and Cons of Being On Your Own

April 22, 2015

When I first started dating the Rugby Boy, I can remember genuinely trying to decide if I wanted to stay single or not. One of the great things about my ‘single journey’ (for want of a less patronising phrase) was that I had come to a [...]

7 tips to help you with first date nerves

April 21, 2015

This week, Time Out London launched regular dating advice on its online site. As part of the advice, I wrote an article about overcoming first date nerves. Except I had to trim it down to just 5 tips … and so 30 Dates Readers get to benefit [...]

Tinder News – Ever Wondered What It’s Like to Work at Tinder?

April 14, 2015

Nope, neither have I! But in case you have, last week Tinder released this video about ‘Life at Tinder’ Call me a cynic, but I can’t help wondering if this (and the careful inclusion of happy, female employees) is linked to all the [...]