Introduce yourself: Hi! I’m Susannah and I run couple retreats – weekends from my home in Devon and days from a gorgeous venue in London. I share my life and my thoughts around relationships on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter as One:Retreat. My website is oneretreat.co.uk Tell us about your first date? My very first date […]
A huge welcome to Emma owner of Little Hotdog Watson – brilliant, intelligent childrenswear brand specialising in super cool hats and accessories for kids; we’re a big fan in this house! Emma is mum to H and has been married to Tom for over 6 years. This busy mum has just come back from taking […]
Introducing Claire from PlayHooray – we’ve been Insta buddies for a while now and collaborated to create our family activity cards A Year of Play, so we’re delighted she’s shared some of her dating stories with us. Claire’s PlayPROMPT cards have become a firm favourite with parents and kids everywhere and she’s quite the Instagram […]
I’m Kate, I set up A Year of Dates in 2016 after receiving a date jar from my husband, John, a few years ago. Everyone thought it was a great idea but didn’t have the ideas/time to set it up… I started the business while I was on maternity leave with my daughter Phoebe. It’s […]
We did it! On the same week I picked the envelope we did the date, I’m in shock!! I had heard about a place in Lancashire (so nearby I thought) that did a picnic table afternoon tea – it had rave reviews and after a quick Google The Garden Kitchen at Holden Clough Nursery came […]
Another of mine this week, I forgot I’d come up with these, I can only remember oe more and there’s a few of mine still in there! Go to the casino, and actually play on the tables! I cleverly (yeah right!) challenged myself in this one – at the casino I always play on the […]
Back in May I picked a date that’d I’d written (and if I remember rightly John was impressed by!): Go to the fair and eat candy floss, if there isn’t one on then go to Blackpool So one sunny Sunday in September we decided to actually go! it was a lovely day, with a small […]
Now we’re talking, I picked well this week: Go for afternoon tea And I know exactly where I’d like to go, AND we’re actually planning on doing it this week, you know the whole idea of this – to do the date on the week chosen! (We’ll not remind anyone of the forfeit threat!)… Watch […]
So in a bid to tick things off the list before the arrival of Dot we may have cheated slightly on this one… We went to a restaurant at the Trafford Centre we’ve not eaten at before, we missed mini golf – I can’t see my feet let alone a small ball all the way […]
With the countdown approaching, work has finished and D Day (Dot Day) almost upon us we’re running out for time for dates! But still every Monday sometimes Tues, or Thurs!) I remember to pick a card 🙂 And typically this week I picked one that we have kind of done, before I picked it (I know […]