The Enigma

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 – Year One – Day 365

July 7, 2014

It’s quarter to midnight, and I’m sitting in the bar of a luxurious hotel, in a city I’ve never visited before. I’m wearing the same polkadot dress which I wore twelve months ago on my ill-fated date with the Henley [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

SINGLE – The Other Side of the Rebound

November 19, 2013

As the Experimental Dating ranks fill up … creeping ever closer to the full set of thirty, we’ve become something of a community. The Rebound Gal just spoke about the moral support she received from some of the other EDs on her way to [...]

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 [...]

EXPERTISE – My First ‘Expert’ Experience!

November 15, 2013

A few months ago I attended a Guardian Soulmates singles’ event at Vinopolis. Having never done wine tasting before (and with a palate reserved for rose and lemonade!) I was quite excited to learn more about wine, with the opportunity to [...]

The Full List

September 30, 2013

Here’s the full list of the thirty men who have helped make the past three months one of the most memorable and fun summers of my life! (and the one guy who started it all off ….) The Trigger – The Henley Boy Date One – The [...]

The Henley Boy Effect

September 23, 2013

So if this Challenge were a Hollywood script, then I would have been ditched by Henley Boy at the start, embarked on my crazy 30 Dates challenge, only to fall for the Enigma early on…. (Yes I know that’s the actual truth but bear with me!) [...]

Date Twenty-Two – The Queen’s Guard

September 12, 2013

The dating app Tinder lets you flick through photographs of single men like playing cards, either saving them for later, or casting them aside. And even offers you the chance to ‘Keep Playing’ when you stumble across a match. And the [...]