SINGLE women looking for a partner have been advised to start going to places where there are actually likely to be unmarried men.
Rather than looking for eligible bachelors in bars, nightclubs and gyms, women should focus their search on places where they are not only going to encounter other single females.
Professor Henry Brubaker of the Institute for Studies said: “Research has found that women will have a much higher chance of success if they attend events that attract lonely single men, such as pub quizzes, real ale festivals, model railway conventions and concerts by the surviving members of Pink Floyd.
“Women spend a fortune on clothes and cosmetics to make themselves more attractive to the opposite sex, but our study found that they would have infinitely more success if they arrived at a rainy field in Doncaster wearing an anorak and holding a metal detector.
“And their greatest hope of finding love is to join a historical re-enactment society, especially if they were willing to get really into character as something like a 19th-century wench rescued by Napoleon’s Grande Armée after the Battle of Borodino.
“Admittedly, the men they’re likely to meet are socially awkward divorcees called Gavin. But they aren’t in a position to be choosy.”
