Whatever the weather, Duck Soup will be celebrating being single in the New Year on Sunday 1 January at 623 In The City from 7.30pm.

If you had a fabulous New Year’s Eve party, hopefully you’ll recover during new year’s day and top it off with some quiet conversations with new friends at Duck Soup.

If you didn’t choose to see in the New Year with friends, how about stepping out in your glad rags on the first of January and celebrate the New Year with us!

Relationships, as we all know, can be very trying at times. And when the number of trying times becomes “always,” mounting resentment, unhappiness and low self-esteem result in a break-up… or should. This is the time when being unattached is a good thing. Being single can be a status worth celebrating.

Click here for nine reasons to celebrate being single in 2012!

See you on Sunday and Happy New Year!

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Use dates as an opportunity to broaden your social circle

Sunday 4 December (from 7.30pm at 623 In The City) will be the last Duck Soup networking night for the year!  I hope you’ve got some fun summer plans happening with your other single friends…. if not, come along tonight prepared to hand out your phone number or email address to ensure you’re invited to some events, bbqs and parties..

Dating is one of the best friend finders there is. I read recently some advice from an elder statesman who said that we should all try and make one new friend every five years. What excellent advice. When we are very young we collect friends like sweets. As we get older we lose some along the way kind of like natural wastage. We fall out and we fall in, we change and adapt and we end up with a core group of our best friends, usually quite small but reliable and close. I think its fair to say that most of us will never have more than a handful of extremely close friends as we grow older simply because its not possible to have very close relationships with so many people. Best friends require maintenance.

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See you on Sunday 4 December at 623 In The City from 7.30pm.  Come and meet me on the door and I’ll give you a name-tag and introduce you to someone friendly who’ll start off your night of networking.

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Duck Soup was mentioned in the Nelson Mail article “Love Bytes” this weekend exploring some of the experiences of local Nelson people dating online.

Have a read here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/features/weekend/6040331/Love-bytes

Here is the snippet about Duck Soup:

In 2008, fed up with online dating, Nelson woman Adrienne Ford started a social group for singles aged over 30.

Duck Soup makes the internet dating experience more “efficient”, she says. A single mum, it took her too long to find, message and meet potential matches, and the usual blind coffee date required a heap of self-esteem and self-confidence, often ending in disappointment.

Duck Soup has been a success. Between 60 and 100 unattached Nelsonians turn up regularly to social events in the city on the first Sunday of each month, and Ms Ford also arranges activities like dessert nights, meeting at local events and festivals, and going on trips.

Although some are there simply to make new friends, about half of her attendees have tried internet dating.

She encourages daters to use a Duck Soup event as their first “offline” meeting place.

“Online dating is good, but real-life meeting early on is a good augmentation to online dating,” she says. “It’s crucial.”

At some point, you still have to get offline and do it the old-fashioned way.

For all those new to Duck Soup and willing to give it a try – see you on Sunday 4 December at 623 In The City from 7.30pm.  Come and meet me on the door and I’ll give you a name-tag and introduce you to someone friendly who’ll start off your night of networking.

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As our October Duck Soup night was dominated by rugby league and World Cup TV, it’s surprising that it will stand out as a ‘social’ highlight for me. I made a decision before I walked in to invite a couple of people to a Labour Weekend event I was attending and BOTH accepted that invitation.

We went offroading on 50cc scooters between Picton & Greymouth – totally out of my comfort zone but a fabulous opportunity to meet new friends and get to know others a little better.  The two Duck Soup guys I invited had a brilliant time and are both keen to do it all again next year.

I don’t think it matters WHAT the event is – it could be as simple as a movie or dinner – or more complicated (and expensive!) like the offroading challenge… the point is I did it and the social relationships I invested in really paid off.

Perhaps you could venture a little further than your normal social comfort zone and try something new….. check out www.itson.co.nz to see if an event takes your fancy and then start asking around for like-minded people to join you….

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