Wow, I seem to have gone through a wormhole to a parallel universe – that of the Hitched. In my Year of Many Dates, I’d forgotten what that universe was like. No more scowling at snogging couples on the train. No dashing home to check for messages and views at the expense of cleaning the […]
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A lot of you fellas were about 4 when this movie came out, but for those of you who weren’t, ya’ll will remember the scene in the movie where Harry and Sally are having brunch (that wonderful New York institution that I miss so much on gorgeous sunny sunglasses Sunday’s like today) after both had […]
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I thought I’d tell you all about a married woman I once met. But no it’s not about you. Or you. Or even you. And look before we go any further yes I’ve indeed dallied with those who are otherwise ensconced. But regarding this particular person though. Well that was a little different. Different because […]
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FEBRUARY FUN AND FROLICS really got under way on Tuesday night with another fun-filled party from our fabulous founder, Julia, without whom so many of us would be floundering in the flaccid flames of an unfulfilled fire. Thanks to TBW’s third successful party, the furnace inside us is burning brightly once again as timid typists […]
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Friday morning was pouring with rain and it didn’t stop all day.  After a tour of the contemporary art gallery district in West Chelsea (the shift from the old galleries of Soho is now interestingly moving to the Lower East Side, including the New Museum on the Bowery – www.newmuseum.org), we headed to a one […]
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How on earth did I get from living in a loft apartment in trendy Hoxton (yes, I had the obligatory exposed brick wall and it was so gorgeous I used to spend hours just admiring it) to sharing student digs in a provincial town in the south of Spain? Why did I give up a […]
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New York Diary Part 1 Flying over the snowy wastes of Maine, I reflected that it had been 9 years since I was last in New York. As the plane passed Boston, the white patches far below changed to green and brown, and by the time we started the descent over the Hamptons, it could […]
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Watching the grey January, dusk just falling over the countryside slide by my train window, my mind wandered.  I had made a killer mix for my ipod (One Night Only, Friendly Fires, Laura Maling, The Magnetic Fields) for the trip up to Cambridge to see my cougar girlfriend.  The last time I went to Cambridge […]
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After my slightly introspective piece last time around, I thought I come back to my normal ways and boy, was it a busy Xmas and not to mention the TBW get together, not sure whether I should mention that on here – people might start recognising themselves.. It was at one of those very first […]
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So life’s tickety-boo again. I’m busy, I’m “out there”, my privately personified alter ego still affords me the success, the shags, the self-esteem. And yet here’s something that us Toymen probably lose ground on to you luckier Toyboys out there. The creeping sense that however smoothly you’ve at last got it all going, for some […]
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