Clare Solon

I think, did I leave you last season by saying I was going on a date?

Like, I think you'd planned a date in the future.

Yes.

So the future was January.

And I started networking about my single life.

So like rather than getting out and networking, looking for jobs, I was kind of networking, looking for introductions to potential men.

So that's what I did.

And the first person to step up to the plate was Jenny O'Connell, who runs Sisterly, one of the founders of Sisterly.

And really, it was a very sisterly thing for her to do.

She suggested that I go out on a date with one of her friends.

And I can't tell you the warm glow I felt in my heart when she said, would you go on a blind date with one of my friends?

I thought, A, well done me for bringing my singledom to the table.

But also, well done universe and angels.

Because there was a little bit of me that like my angels have spoken to Jenny's angels.

Because the way that Jenny said it to me, we were in a pub together.

We were sitting and having some Negronis.

And we were chatting away, chatting away.

And she just turned to me and she goes, like it just occurred to her.

She was like, would you be up for going on a blind date?

And I was like,