5 ways to find love and romance at the Edinburgh Fringe

Tara Rankine is performing a show in Edinburgh called Love Is A Work In Progress, so who better to offer us some tips on how to find romance at the festival.

Here's her top five tips:

1. Wear lots of green, as if at a 'traffic light' party - people will sub-consciously know you're single.

2. Although it looks good, avoid wearing tight fitting, holding-your-wobbly-bits-in-impossible-to-remove clothing in case you find yourself on the dance floor with the person of your dreams, and then the bedroom floor with person of your dreams and then in a hot fit of passion with the person of your dreams... the mood is killed because you can't get your clothes off. Or even worse, you get stuck in your control briefs with all your wobbly bits hanging out in a most uncompromising position.

3. If you're going to stalk someone (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, checking out their venue, frequenting their fav bar etc) don't let them find out!! Because although we all do a cheeky Facebook stalk when we fancy someone, we also all find it incredibly creepy when we discover someone else has stalked us. This means:

a) insuring you're typing their name into the SEARCH FIELD and NOT on your own profile page or even worse, their profile page.

b) not waiting by the door of their fav bar every night and then exclaiming their name as soon as they walk in.

c) don't casually drop into conversation with them "oh I Facebook stalked you yesterday". It never, ever sounds sexy.

d) don't tell anyone else you've stalked someone, as they will most definitely tell said person.

4. Definitely do a show about love, including all your past lovers, most embarrassing stories, your worst habits, most unattractive qualities and how desperate you are to find love because that never turned anyone off before. Right?!

5. Carry a toothbrush on you at all times cos we all know when you leave the house at 10am with the intention of coming home for lunch and then later dinner, it never happens and it might be 48 hours before you're back there - especially if you meet the person of your dreams, and there is nothing that can turn the person of your dreams off like 48 hour old garlic breath from the hummus you ate yesterday as a snack/dinner between shows!