Is Marriage Going Out of Fashion?

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According to the most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics, the married population in the UK is expected to drop to just 41 per cent in 20 years, compared with 49 per cent now. The average groom in Britain is for the first time now the same age as his bride. In the 1960s, […]
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Dancing girl
“I can’t quite claim to be a true Boomer (The term Alpha Boomer was recently coined in the US to describe 55- to 64-year-olds, currently the fastest-growing demographic in that nation.) I was born in 1967 – says Laura Tennant in a recent article in the Independent, but with 50 edging ever closer, I’m fascinated […]
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Brain music
In ancient Greek mythology, sleep was represented as a teenager who softly ran across the Earth to give men and women rest for body and spirit, placing a poppy on the left hand side and a bowl with its juice on the right. Looking at it, sleep should be a moment of calm, a detachment […]
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choosing baby names
OK, so normally names don’t matter too much to me when it comes to dating people, or even people in general, but every so often one comes across someone whose name is exceptionally beautiful (or on the rare occasion, not very beautiful at all), and as I had such an encounter fairly recently, it got […]
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Worst date
In case you’re wondering, MVWD is an acronym for My Very Worst Date; something I’m sure many of you have experienced in varying degrees of horror. Whilst browsing around the other day, we came across a blog called, yep, you guessed it MyVeryWorstDate.com Now, we’re not denying this blogger had a bad date, and a […]
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Prince William and Princess Kate
Although we here at TBW HQ aren’t having a street party in commemoration of the tomorrow’s royal nuptials, we felt we would be remiss if One didn’t mention it and wish the happy couple well. Diana was a mere twenty years old when she married Prince Charles, while Kate is twenty-nine. If anything, it’s a […]
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Mac keyboard
I’m in love… with an older woman and I want to impress my lady and I want to make her forget about age – how?” “Being in a cougar relationship with a younger man, this is what worked for me… He was very mature for his age he was level headed,and could carry on a […]
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hairy men
If you want an intelligent partner – seek out a man with body hair. A recent study conducted by psychiatrist Dr Aikarakudy Alias, who has been working on the relationship between body hair and intelligence for 22 years, showed that hairy chests are more likely to be found among the most intelligent and highly educated […]
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Bastian Dash
For all the I say about us chaps being given a break as we head into those years post the supposed toyboy age bracket most of you gals stipulate we should occupy, there are indeed some that do no favours to the cause. I recently met three at a party … Let me first however […]
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Wendy Salisbury
Holiday romances are a terrible cliché and should not be taken seriously at any cost but I’ve just come back from a Nile cruise followed by 3 nights in Cairo and guess what? I fell in love.   Having steeled myself never to allow another man anywhere near my heart ever again (my body is […]
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