Intro

This is not a new idea, in fact it's an old idea. Around 8 years ago I blogged about my dating experiences and encounters and during the process I actually met someone, and married her. The whole blogging about dating experience at the time was fairly new and there weren't many around to compare against. I don't actually think mine was well written at all, it was more of a diary of dates, rather than a funny informative blog. Today that's changed and there dozens of them. And some are brilliant and will be difficult to beat.

I got reading the very funny, if slightly dark at times 52 First Dates which lead me to 28 Dates Later, both well written blogs, entertaining and funny, but I couldn't help they were both just experiments and both writers were just laying out their respective challenges and neither actually wanted to find love, but just catalogue the colourful people they met. And there are some very colourful people out there. They were open about their reasons for dating to their dates, i.e. they were just going to write about them. Whether this would make them a challenge I have no idea, but neither appeared to find love (so far) but had fun along the way in reaching their respective targets.

And so to me. Well, I'm 46, once married now happily divorced. Having been single for 18months I've been on quite a few dates but haven't written about them so far, so inspired by the above blogs I decided it was time to put pen to paper. I'm not looking to meet 'colourful' people who have strange fetishes, so hopefully you won't hear tales of how she brought me back to her vampire den and ate live bats, but you never know. One thing that I will write about is the normal everyday folk that live in this fair city and the typical dating rituals that we all seem to go through in order to meet a partner to share Sunday morning Cappuccinos and glossy Sunday supplements.

Wish me luck!