Miranda your summer is sounding lovely! I'm sure your holiday with Mr Nice will be great provided you remember to take the tache off
Title glad it's all got sorted out, hope your little big problem can be too.
Raen sounding good, you are in demand at the moment!
Lorna I've never been married - I rest my case! I was actually engaged to Titto at one point and then everything in me went "no, no, no" and it just kind of drifted off the radar without me making a big fuss about it, more fool me, and then we ended up living together and having the dc anyway. I'd be wary if someone beyond their twenties hadn't had a serious relationship or two, if not been married - it could just be circumstances and bad luck, but it could well be something more sinister involving very poor personal habits and lack of generosity (emotionally and otherwise).
Talking of generosity, am a bit 
to say that Alpha has paid for everything so far even though I've offered. But he does earn a lot more than I do so I feel a bit but not very bad about it. I wouldn't go along with this if it was someone who earned around the same as me, or less, but we would be staying in a lot more too or just going out for a couple of drinks instead of dinner. He doesn't make a big fuss about it at all, usually "goes to the loo" and pays, so it's not a show-off thing, just a nice thing as I think he has realised that I am pretty skint.
Generally on a first date I would meet for drinks - I think with one exception the man has offered to buy me a drink first and then I've offered to buy one back. Sometimes they say yes, sometimes they say they'll pay and I don't mind either way.