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I had just bought my first flat.  I’d always sworn I’d never live in a ground floor flat, but I absolutely fell in love with this one, and purchased it despite my concerns about safety on the ground floor.  So, when I need to get some work done in my new home, I was already […]
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Wendy Salisbury

Last of the Summer Whine

They’re bagging up the leaves in my road.  Hurrah! I cry.  Bring on the autumn:  a light chill in the air, the soil moist from the day’s downpour, nights drawing in, curtains closed by 7.30, fire crackling in the grate, a hearty casserole simmering on the hob… candles glowing, easygoing, toe-to-toe-ing as we cuddle on […]
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Inga Dahl

Why “Mrs Robinson” is “Miss Right”

When one hears the term “reproduction expediting”, one can be forgiven for thinking that it could possibly be less than flattering. However, one couldn’t be more wrong. That is, when it involves the relational dynamics of the older woman and younger man. You see, the term “reproduction expediting” is scientific proof, according to Psychology Today, […]
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Bastian Dash

For want of a key…

They say you never forget how to ride a bike…    Mind you I was a late developer on that score; I’m ashamed to say it took me a few formative years longer than I bet it did most of you to kick the stabilizer habit. Still, once I found the guts to finally risk a […]
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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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