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My Top Ten Posts of the Year (The Student)

December 31, 2013

Having spent a great deal of the last six months staying up til 3am, regardless of what time I started work the next day, all in the name of the blog, I couldn’t help but smile when I saw what time The Student sent in her blog post this [...]

My Top Ten Posts of the Year (Miss Twenty-Nine)

December 28, 2013

To round up 2013 on the 30 Dates Blog, I’ve asked the Experimental Daters to choose their ten favourite posts from the blog this year To kick things off, I’ve chosen my Top Ten. The Experimental Daters have each contributed to the blog [...]

The Fourth Date of Christmas

December 18, 2013

I’ve never really liked Christmas songs. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t mind the odd bit of Mariah or Wizzard, but normally after a few days I’m done. And then this winter I discovered Frisky & Mannish’s [...]

AGE – 29

December 12, 2013

There are definitely some odd aspects to writing a dating blog! It’s as if the moment guys find out about the blog, they stop treating me like a normal, single girl. Now obviously that’s partly my fault – because very few people I [...]

ENCOUNTERS – A Crazy Dating Equation

December 10, 2013

Five months into the 30 Dates blog, and I’m no stranger to odd singles event ideas. As a group of Experimental Daters we’ve been Toilet Dating, Silent Dating, Yoga Pub Dating, and tried several times to get ourselves into a Dating in the [...]

SINGLE – The Born Again Bachelorette

December 8, 2013

So yesterday, after almost six months away from Plenty of Fish, I returned to the popular free dating site. Those of you who’ve followed the blog from the start will know that POF is how I met The Henley Boy. And so rather jaded with the [...]

Experimental Dater Twenty-Three – The Enigma

November 16, 2013

I told you there would be some familiar faces joining the Experimental Daters! Not satisfied with inviting Date Two of my Thirty (TOWTS) and Date Nineteen – The Best Man – back to write for the blog, plus last minute contender The [...]

Behind the Scenes at 30 Dates

October 14, 2013

Search Engine Terms One of the features of WordPress, is that it can tell you how people stumble upon your blog. Some of the search terms are pretty obvious – unsurprisingly the most popular search that has led to my blog is ‘30 Dates [...]

The Cupids

October 7, 2013

So … jet-lag appears to have hit me five days late! Am wide-eyed, and anything but bushy-tailed, staring at my alarm, knowing it’s set to go off in about 45 minutes, so I figured I may as well put the time to good use. It’s time [...]

30 Lessons I’ve Learned from My 30 Dates

October 2, 2013

I’ve never really been into self-help books, or spiritual journeys. For me, the aim of 30 Dates was pretty fun – enjoy some nice simple dates, where I hadn’t invested anything into my ‘relationship’ with the guy beforehand. Proper [...]