An Interview with Mary Stanley

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Mary Stanley

An Interview with Mary Stanley

I met Mary Stanley, who is a best selling Irish author on a radio show, and wanted to interview her as I love her story and the way she tells it – when you read it, imagine her mellifluous Irish accent. JM, TBW founder MS: I was married for 25 years, actually together with my […]
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Club Saint-Tropez

Au revoir Saint-Tropez!

It’s finally time to go home after two fabulous weeks in Saint-Tropez. Well it wasn’t quite Saint-Tropez, I was staying in a villa in the hills above Saint-T near a little village called Ramatuelle. You know the type of thing: pines, cypresses and lavender, late lunches on the terrace, all afternoon by the pool and […]
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KatJG

What are younger men queuing up for?

‘Younger men are queuing up for a cougar to love’ says today’s Independent on Sunday (22.8.10) but the middle-aged American man, Rich Gosse, who has apparently spent 15 years ‘championing older women’ still falls into the age-old, male-dominated society mindset of concluding that women ‘prefer older men’. Well… maybe he thinks that because he’s middle […]
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Coming back to Toyboy Warehouse

Honey, I’m Home!

Yes, I’m back. I always say that I won’t be, that I’m going to do grown-up dating, get a sensible boyfriend and have a ‘proper relationship’. But really I should just sit down and have a cup of tea until the feeling passes… Recently I wondered why it is that I even bother to say […]
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Letting go

Can we ever really just be ourselves?

I love those little unexpected moments that hit from time to time.  There I was sitting alone in front of a ridiculously large salt beef on rye (with horseradish and a gherkin obviously!) and a glass of Pimm’s. I had spent the afternoon in the West End and was having a well earned break from […]
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Holiday romance

Foam, flip flops and fantasies

Just got back from a long weekend in Mallorca.  My knees ache from dancing until 5 am every night, I am sunburnt through what’s left of my St. Tropez. and I’m feeling a little bit like the cat that ate the cream… I went out there for a long weekend with one of my dearest friends.  […]
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Bastian Dash

Bastian Reloaded

Okay, there comes a point in every Toyman’s life… Remember that? Me sat on a beach almost three years ago pondering the onset of an unfulfilled future, well romantically anyway. And look what went on to happen next; the quest for a third way, a Hamletesque guilt trip over shags I should or should not […]
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Cougar cartoon

What Women Want

Gentleman – if you are expecting this to be The User’s Manual complete with useful diagrams for those tricky complicated parts– disappointment for now. You will have to wait until Volume 2.  Ladies first after all… So what do woman want? Well – if I am to take seriously the spate of articles I have […]
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Single Dad dating online

The Trials of a Dating Daddy

I’m a father. I’m a dater. I’m a pigeon-hole hater! (how very Steve Miller Band!) Some background information:I have a son, who shall be 6 years young on Wednesday (at this age, age is anything but a number -how he and I differ so!!), he’s a glorious human being.  His mother and I broke up before […]
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The Rebound

Cougar Tips: For Women Dating Toyboys

Whilst men have been dating younger women forever, a woman dating a younger man is still a relative novelty, a theme explored in new movie The Rebound starring Catherine Zeta Jones. The term ‘Cougar’ has recently been coined which I’m not sure has helped as it has rather predatory connotations for older women ‘preying’ on […]
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