My parents celebrated their 30^th Wedding Anniversary last week. Thirty whole years married to the same person. Some may say that they have been lucky enough to find ‘the one’. Not only that, but I also went to my second wedding of the year this weekend. I appeared to be the only person there not to have found ‘the one’.

This got me to thinking.

There are 8 Planets,

196 Countries,

7 Billion and counting people,

and I’m single.

Not only am I single; I am single and living in Devon.

It is around this time of year that I really start to notice it.

You can’t seem to go anywhere without a glance at a smitten couple holding hands walking past you on the beach, a sweet old couple gazing into each others eyes over an ice-cream or a ‘so young they have only just got out of…