Stroll-dating

Telegraph: Purveyors of speed-dating, the frenetic method of finding love through dozens of noisy three-minute encounters, will have you believe it is responsible for thousands of relationships, more than 50 marriages and at least six babies.
The events are thought to generate up to £5 million a year and about 4,000 people a week take part.
But for the 15 million or so single people who would prefer not to shriek for their wedding supper, 20-year-old Annabelle Baldwyn has devised a genteel alternative: “stroll-dating”.
It is an altogether more civilised affair, according to participants. A happy marriage between two of life’s great pleasures – dogs and country walks.
Eligible bachelors (brewery owner, 32; insurance seller, 35) meet marriageable ladies (marketing consultant, 34; shop assistant, 24) at a country pub to go a-courting in the Cotswolds, followed by hefty ham sandwiches and a laze in the summer sun.
Two stroll-dates in, the statistics are yet to match those of the speed-dates bean counters, but they are climbing.
Miss Baldwyn, 20, an artist and entrepreneur, came up with the idea after falling in love on a woodland ramble. She bills it as the sedate alternative to “brash” dating events.
Finding true love is as easy as a stroll in a country park [Telegraph]