One Year Later

30 Dates, One Year On … Miss Twenty-Nine

September 30, 2014

To round off three months of 30 Dates boys returning to the blog to tell us about their past year, I figured it was time I did the same! It’s my birthday. If I changed my name every year, I’d be Miss Thirty-One. But it’s my [...]

30 Dates, One Year On … The Ones Who Got Away!

September 29, 2014

Over the past three months, 13 of the 30 Dates, or rather 12 of the original 30 Dates, and the Skype Date, all returned to the blog to tell us what they’ve been up to in the past year. One found love in Vietnam and brought her home with him [...]

30 Dates, One Year On … The Enigma

September 29, 2014

It’s September 29th, which means exactly a year ago today I finished my 30 Dates, trekking up to the Hollywood sign in LA with the Hollywood Actor. 30 Blind Dates down, a whole year of adventures to come! As one of the birthday cards [...]

30 Dates, One Year On … The Skype Date

September 11, 2014

Diligent 30 Dates readers will know The Skype Date wasn’t an official one of the Original 30. Though if I’d been officially counting, I actually went on 31 first dates in the three months before my 30th birthday. I met the Skype Date [...]

30 Dates, One Year On … The Queen’s Guard

September 9, 2014

Given the recent news story, I should probably start by pointing out that The Queen’s Guard is NOT the Dancing Guardsman! (He’s in the Coldstream Guard, not the Grenadier Guards). Now if there was ever someone for whom the phrase [...]

30 Dates, One Year On … The Original Pimpernel

August 28, 2014

The 30 Dates nicknames became a bit of a thing last year. I would be halfway through a date, and the guy would turn to me and ask “so have you decided what my name is gonna be yet?!” Of all the names, I think The Original Pimpernel and [...]

30 Dates, One Year On … The Stallion

August 25, 2014

It’s Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK, which means one year ago, I’d just finished Date Number 19 with The Best Man (and realised how few decent London pubs are open on Bank Holidays!). I’ve spoken recently about the different [...]

30 Dates, One Year On … The Challenger

August 20, 2014

It’s a year since I did the original 30 Dates Challenge – three months of dating which launched a career change I could never have imagined, and still haven’t quite got my head around! To celebrate the year anniversary of the [...]

30 Dates, One Year On … The Big Kid

August 17, 2014

This time last year, I was midway through my 30 Dates Challenge. I had just flown to Spain, and was about to go on Dates 15 and 16 in Madrid. Hopefully later this month we should hear what the Argentine Matador has been up to in the year since I [...]

30 Dates, One Year On … The Jet-Setter

August 5, 2014

A year ago I went on 30 Dates with complete strangers. Most were friends of friends, or friends of friends of friends … A couple were found by other methods! This time last summer, Tinder was still very much in its infancy, and it was on [...]