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30 Signs Your Relationship Has Hit The Comfort Zone

February 17, 2015

Last week as part of a campaign to encourage couples to talk about health issues, Measure Bowel Cancer created a Top 30 List of signs that your relationship has hit the ‘comfort zone’. According to the research, carried out by the [...]

Taking Love Offline – #SaveTheCupids

September 3, 2014

Dating is a game of actions and reactions. And so it’s interesting to see the Dating Industry moving in a similar way. One person steps forward, others take a step back … Last year was very much the year of Tinder – an app [...]

London Date Ideas – Real Food Market, Live TV Show Audience & L’Entrecote

August 29, 2014

Every week on 30 Dates, I showcase new Date Ideas, and Venues I’ve come across as I learn more about our lovely Capital! This week has been a busy one, and I’ve been lucky enough to visit several noteworthy spots. I’ll start with [...]

30 Dates, One Year On … The One With The Sign

July 26, 2014

Continuing the series of ‘Where are they now?’ type features on some of my former 30 Dates, it’s time to check back in with my first proper blind date of the Challenge – The One with The Sign (or TOWTS as he’s become [...]

Doing Something’s Big Brooklyn Bowl Date

July 23, 2014

Last week London Dating Events company Doing Something continued their series of record breaking-size singles events, with a bowling night at the Brooklyn Bowl. 600 daters were invited to ‘strike’ up (BOOM BOOM!) conversations with [...]

First Date Fashion by Sian Miller – The Summer Sporting Event

July 18, 2014

The English Summer is full of exciting sporting events – Wimbledon, Ascot,Henley, the Polo – and all of them have a smart dress-code. This week our resident stylist Sian Miller shows you how to still be fashionable, even when [...]

The Auto-Renewal Trap

July 13, 2014

Last week, as I packed up the last of my stuff and moved from Reading to London, I stumbled upon an old credit card statement. I’m not gonna lie – there’s a reason I write dating advice, and not financial advice … (Yes, I did [...]

The Year in Numbers

July 13, 2014

This month we’re celebrating the blog’s first birthday here at 30 Dates. Probably the most common question I’m asked is how many dates I’ve been on this past year, and the honest answer is I don’t know, but rather a [...]

The One with Another Sign!

July 8, 2014

For anyone yet to read the original 30 Dates which kickstarted this entire adventure, my very first date was a bit of a let-down. Basically I went on Plenty of Fish, rekindled conversation with a guy I already knew I wasn’t overly [...]

Meet the Dating Expert – Katy Horwood

July 7, 2014

Last week we kicked off a new feature called ‘Meet the Dating Expert’ with professional dating profile photographer Saskia Nelson. The post proved extremely popular, so this week I asked Sex Expert Katy Horwood, of All Sweetness & [...]