archiveGuardian Blind Date

  There are only a couple of problems with being old, really. The first is looking it. What a cruel trick...

  I don't believe in soulmates, but I do know there is someone for everyone. And by that, I mean that...

  Thursdays are the hardest when you're single. Maybe Wednesdays too. Oh, you'd expect it to be the weekends, wouldn't...

  Do you remember when Sainsbury's supermarkets briefly used the slogan "Try something new today"? It would have been more honest...

  On a date, the very first decision you need to make as soon as you lay eyes on the...

  How soon into a date can you tell it's going to be a disaster? Usually, I'd know by the...

  It's occurred to me more than once that I'll never have those proud moments as a parent. I won't...

  I am not a romantic, I'm clinical and practical. I don't know whether it's genetic or simply that my heart's...

  Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but what really gets the heart pumping to the point of explosion...

  Lying awake, delirious, at 6am, as light streamed in through an unfamiliar window, it occurred to me that the...