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  • Music, the Food of Love?

     Music and romance have a long standing shared history that extends right through our culture. It is thought that the earliest examples of music, as with many art forms, were created for ritual purposes and one of the stock ritual form common to all human cultures is the marriage or union ritual. Music's contribution to these early rituals would have been to bring the various participants closer together; rituals have primarily a social function, validating and concreting certain truths that uphold the social order, such as the creation of a family unit within the larger tribal context.More

  • Taking the Plunge – Meeting Your Online Match (Part 1)

     So you made a success of it, you found a match online and now you’re meeting up? Congratulations! The hardest part of the journey is over and now the fun begins.More

  • Taking the Plunge – Meeting Your Online Match (Part 2)

     In the first part of this article we looked at choosing the right circumstances for your perfect date, now lets take a look at the most important part of the equation – you! Thinking about making the best possible impression on your date, here are a few dos and don’ts:Do – Shower, brush your teeth and wear clean clothes! Ok, ok, so that sounds like the most obvious thing in the world, right?More

  • Summer of Love

     Around the middle of June each year, a curious phenomenon starts to take place around Britain. As the sun fattens in the sky and the air temperature rises, the huddled masses of merry England start to emerge, blinking, from their winter torpor and gear up for the short-lived annual heyday that is British summer!Perhaps it is our habitual resignation to the gloom and drizzle that makes up two thirds (in a good year) of our annual weather that provokes this curious change in us as a nation, perhaps the heat affects the functioning of our brains.More

  • Mary and Ralph

     These days, new communications technology allows us all to conduct our social affairs at the touch of a button or the click of a mouse. Text messages, email and chatrooms allow us instantaneous access to friends, acquaintances and perfect strangers across the world without ever having to speak face to face, new dating and social networking sites spring up every day, relationships and marriages are made (and broken) via these channels on an even more frequent and burgeoning basis. But all these technological and social changes are largely confined to the past fifteen or maybe twenty years.More

  • The Tale That Dogs the WAG

     Glancing through the red-tops on certain days over the past few weeks, one could be forgiven for thinking that England’s World Cup bid revolved not around 11 strapping male athletes on the pitch in Gelsenkirchen, but rather the occasionally dubious antics of a group of Cristal fuelled, bejewelled glamour queens in Manolo Blahniks and oversized sunglasses.Certainly this does not constitute any great departure from form on the part of either the tabloid reporters or the WAGs themselves. The likes of Victoria Beckham (ne?More

  • Down the Aisle - 21st Century Style

     Back in the 1950s and ‘60s, marriage was seen as an institution fundamental to the structure and stability of society; so fundamental, in fact that it was unthinkable that a couple would live together out of wedlock. The institution of marriage was held in high importance by all echelons of society and marriage ceremonies reflected this diversity, ranging from sumptuous lavish affairs on which no expense was spared (admittedly the preserve of only the super-rich and royalty in this austere post-war era) to simple and humble gatherings with little more than good cheer and a handful of rice to bless the union.As the 1950s’ austerity and propriety began to give way to the colourful and flamboyant popular culture of the 1960s, common attitudes towards marriage (as with many other aspects of traditional society) began to experience something of a sea change.More