Tickets are already selling fast for our Wham! and George Michael Tribute Night on SATURDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER at Bird Hills Golf Club nr Maidenhead.

You’d be mad to miss this totally entertaining night out and tickets are cheaper in advance, so book yours soon to avoid disappointment! Click here for info p.s. Tina Turner tribute night coming soon!

Single? Read this - you’ll be glad you live in the UK… In the West, dating was traditionally a stage on the road to marriage. Some cultures developed customs to emphasise this.

In Germany there’s still a charming event where individuals who have reached the age of 30 and not got hitched are publicly punished. Accompanied by their friends, the offenders are taken to a local church, town hall or opera house, where the men are made to sweep the steps while the women have to clean shoe polish-covered door handles. They can only be released from these onerous tasks when kissed by a virgin of the opposite sex, possibly one who may release them from their “offensive” state of singledom. An all-night party generally follows…

(From “Going Dutch in Beijing” by Mark McCrum published by Profile £9.99 and recently featured in The Independent)

Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of “absolute value”, as opposed to relative value. Thomas Jay Oord defines love as acting intentionally, in sympathetic response to others (including God), to promote overall well-being.

Oord means for his definition to be adequate for religion, philosophy, and the sciences.

Robert A. Heinlein, one of the most prolific science fiction writers of the 20th century, defined love in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land as the point of emotional connection which leads to the happiness of another being essential to one’s own well being.

This definition ignores the ideas of religion and science and instead focuses on the meaning of love as it relates to the individual.

Also, an ancient proverb states that love is a high form of tolerance. This view is one that many philosophers and scholars have researched, and is widely accepted.