Our picks for this month:

Fitness Fix, this is an unusual one to mention, as you’re all fabulously formed.  However in case any of you are hoping to hone your six-packs or tone your pins to perfection, we thought you might want to meet Nick.  He’s everything you want in a personal trainer, effective, effusive and effing funny:  Nick Crispin

Open-air Opera, one of our favourite things to do on balmy evenings is to have a picnic in the grounds of the Holland Park Opera house.  While a ticket to get inside is rather costly, as it’s open-air you can hear the gorgeous music throughout the park.  So if you’ve got a rug, some glasses and a bottle-opener… we reckon this might be the perfect date.  To pick which one you’d like to hear, read here: Holland Park

Conservation, we all know we’re damaging the earth and destroying wild habitats at an alarming rate, but maybe the message isn’t hitting home hard enough.  If, like us, you wept at the film Born Free as a kid, you’ll know how important this foundation is, if not rent the movie and then have a look:  Born Free

Good things that have happened to us:

As you’ve heard, I got hitched!  Baz and I sealed the deal at London Zoo (to support their conservation projects, I practise what I preach!) on 6^th June.  It was an amaaaaazing day, surrounded by our families and friends.  As you know, we’ve had a long road, but our Christian, Muslim, Jewish, English, Iranian, Israeli (!) festivities all blended wonderfully well.  Our honeymoon in Sicily was a fitting finale, full of laughter and ice-cream (‘course I was also a cunning cannoli critique).  Thank you for all your wishes.  Seems that our romantic vibes might have reached all of you, as last month saw more Tree ticklings of fancy than ever before.  We happily seem to have collectively lost many members as they’ve met someone they want to go steady with.  We’re not sure that we’re doing anything differently, love must be in the air.

Dating anecdotes:

This isn’t a Sitting in a Tree pairing, but I wanted to tell you about a couple I met on honeymoon.  While stuffing our faces with pizza one evening, we happened to be sitting next to a very charming, elderly couple.  I can’t do much else, but my foreign lingo skills are decent, so we struck up conversation with them.  Turned out they’d been married for 61 years.  I cannot imagine spending that much of my life with anyone and still being good company, but they were inspirational to watch.  Not only did they still clearly love each other, but they continued to be so kind and considerate and warm together.  They still made conversation about current affairs, he still teased her gently, she still looked at him with awe as he chatted about his years as a doctor.  They were adorable.  I’m sure there were creases, but they’d glaze over them and only see the best in each other and their union.  There’s a whole lot to be said for a positive attitude.

Top dating tip:

Hang out in the beautiful London parks.  While we wouldn’t necessarily recommend approaching semi-naked randoms, we do think in this weather you should make the most of people’s sunny dispositions.  You could invite them to play Frisbee with you, share your sandwiches, start a sing-along with a guitar, offer them your anti-histamine…!  Whatever it is, you have an excuse as grass and trees bring out the community spirit in everyone.