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Looking for love in the UK

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Loopy Love. Isn’t that a great name for the first UK free online singles dating site. I think it is. I thought that perhaps some of my UK readers who might be trying to find love in the UK might want to check out Loopy love.

The site states that each week, two or three marriages occur between members who met on Loopy love, and that there are 100’s of satisfied members as well.

What’s different about this online dating company, when compared to others, is that there is no initial joining fee. That’s right the service is totally free since it’s funded by the advertising on the site. Now, how many free online or otherwise dating sites are you aware of? Probably very few. Most dating sites charge the male members at the very least.

You can begin your very first search from the front page. Simply choose who you are looking for, man or woman, select the age group that you are interested in, then list an area of the UK in which to find your new love, and hit the quick search button and see how many potential matches you’ve made.

Once you are registered, you are a full member. This only takes minutes BTW, and you’ll be able to do more in depth searches. It would probably be a good idea to complete your profile, and include a photo of yourself first before you start searching. Just in case you make a quick match. Then, once you’ve registered you can run full searches that include more detail than the quick search on the front page, such as searching for someone with a specific hair colour, eye colour, body type, height, ethnicity, religion, education, employment, industry, income, whether they drink or smoking and so on.

All of the members are from the UK, so where ever you are in the UK you should be able to find someone close by who wants to try dating. Maybe several some bodies if you are really lucky. You can receive match alerts by email, plus chat with other members online before meeting them too. I almost forgot, along with adding photos to your profile, there is a video profile option as well. What could be better than seeing a potential match via video.

Visit Loopy love if you are looking to date someone in your area.






Growing seedlings in the back porch

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We have an unheated enclosed porch at the back of our house and I use this area to start seeds in March and early April. Well, to be completely honest, some seeds get started indoors in late February or early March and then as the weather begins to warm by the end of March and early April I often end up with most of my seedlings in the back porch area where I have one of those small three shelved plastic covered green houses.

The room is on the South side of the house and it gets a lot of sunlight through the windows and uhm corrugated green plastic ceiling (how classy!) from early morning to mid-afternoon or so. In the summer we can’t go in this room unless the window is open as it just gets too hot. In the winter the back porch is reasonably comfortable in the day time even in January or February. So This is a good place to grow plants for the garden.

I am thinking of getting some blinds for the windows in the back porch because I think they might help deflect a little bit of the sunlight and consequently the heat that builds up in the room. of course, there’s that corrugated green plastic roof that covers the back porch. It lets a lot of light in as well. Oh and the cold of winter, and heat of summer.

The back porch has wood paneling- dark wood paneling and I’ve been thinking of white washing the wood so the room will be bright. I wouldn’t actually use white on the walls though but a very pale green/white wash. So I’m trying to decide if I should get natural wood or bamboo blinds or the regular metallic kind. I guess I have a few months to think about this because I’m certainly not going to be doing anything else out there this year.

Where do you grow your seedlings? Do you start them indoors under grow lights?

The Pink Fridge

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Have you heard of The Pink Fridge? It’s an online magazine for UK women. Yes, I know, I’m in Canada – why am I writing about an online magazine in the UK? Well, I know that many of my readers are from the UK and from Countries all over the world. This is most definitely a global site, and I thought my UK readers might be interested in hearing about the Online Magazine.

Just like a print magazine there are a number of sections of interest to browse through.

There is a Love and Life section and it’s filled with articles such as being your own boss and working at home, a supermarket dating guide, an article suggesting that women should pay lower insurance rates because we are better drivers, general advice and many more topics from marriage to personal finance. The Health and Beauty section has quite a number of current articles as well, ranging from an article discussing skin types to a weight loss guide.

The popularity of Manolo Blahniks are discussed in an article in the clothing section, which is a sub-directory of the shopping section. I expected to find listings of online stores or discussions about the UK’s fashionable shops in this section but to my surprise I found articles about fashion trends, clothing, Jewelery, perfume, and a well written article that discussed the history of Champagne and it’s uses today.

I quite enjoyed the Travel section, reading about the city of Prague, golfing in Scotland and beach holidays on the Mediterranean. I was drooling as I read about Cyprus. It sounded so wonderful.

Try as I might I was unable to find any information regarding the name of the online magazine. Perhaps the Pink Fridge refers to something unique to the UK that as a North American I’m ignorant of, but I was curious as to how the name of the magazine came about and wished I could have found some information about the name.

I was quite pleased to find that all of the articles were well written and held my attention. I think this Online Magazine could easily have a broader focus since many of the topics are of interest to women all over the world. The only suggestion that I would make for the site owner would be perhaps to make the font ever so slightly larger in order to make it a little easier to read the articles.

I think my site visitors would find The Pink Fridge to be an interesting site and I do hope that a few of you will visit and decide for yourself if you enjoy the articles or not. I stand by what I’ve written and think that The Pink Fridge could very well develop into a popular online magazine over time.

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