Sick of Match? You're not alone - although we do love the Cupid & Fate ad campaign. Here's another option: find someone who works near you, then meet up with them this lunchtime - or after work - or, hell, during work (their suggestion, not ours).

Captivated by the retro-cartoon graphics and multitude of witticisms, I signed up for the free two-day trial.

(Full disclosure: As I've already found my perfect man - on Match - the plan is to take my photo-less profile down before it goes live, so I won't be regaling you with tales of mid-day rendezvous. But if one of you single readers would like to sign up and do so, fab! Please get in touch.)

The profile questions are the ones you'd expect: do you smoke/drink/have kids, what do you like to do/read/think/wear, along with some space for your own words on your gorgeous self (again, their words, but see how nice it sounds?).

And then there's the important one: By what tube station do you work?

I entered Mansion House (in honour of my husband), and hit Finish. In searching the Little Black Book (cute, right?) for a guy between 35-38 who works in my/his area, one comes up. He's looks good. A further nine work by St. Paul's, and another 19 work by Bank.

In fact, the profile for one of the Bank guys is definitely going over to my catch of a single friend...

From there, we move west across London, past Victoria to...Canary Wharf, which features 15 bachelors.

And if you're open for business, you can select a tag that you're free for lunch/dinner/all day/not at all - just making that spontaneous coffee even easier.

Of course, the downside of meeting people around your office is that you'll run into them when getting lunch at Pret or stopping by the shoe repair place.

But the upside? Convenience on so many levels.


Dally not dear heart. Sign up here.

Here Is The Writer : Sarah Western Balzer

Sarah Western Balzer is the managing director of HITC Life and is always on the lookout for reader-writers, so if you'd like to be one, make yourself known (sarah.western@hereisthecity.com). Sarah moved to London six years ago from New York but is originally from Florida, and still suntans like it's 1989. She is so grateful to the banker who introduced her to Here Is The City that she married him, and they live in Wapping with their son.

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