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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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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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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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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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Enforced Celibacy

Tragic, but it happens. Sometimes we go without. For a few months in my case. I suppose there are various reasons why this awful state of being can come to pass – being a lighthouse keeper, being forced into a convent (although I’m sure those nuns sometimes… sorry, I mustn’t lose my train of thought…), […]
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Very Dirty Martinis

It was a night like any other. But this simple mid-week drink would annihilate a long-standing relationship with my second favourite thing in the whole world: the dirty martini. It started on a cushy sofa, in a dimly lit corner somewhere in Shoreditch. He and I had sunk into its folds to wash away the […]
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Inside the mind of a Toyboy

Men and women they’re pretty different aren’t they? Anatomically ladies have inny bits fortunately placed where men have outy bits. At certain points in their lives these opposing organs come together and complete the anthropomorphic jigsaw puzzle: and the participants either make affirmative celebratory noises at the puzzles completion or even more little people with […]
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Wimbledon Rear View

Well it’s not everyone who gets invited to watch the finals at Wimbledon but yesterday I got lucky!  A dear friend from TBW had 2 tickets and invited me to go with her to watch Nadal v Berdych in the finals. It was a beautiful sunny day with blue skies and the occasional cotton-wool cloud […]
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Dating like a man

I’m unable to understand why they – whoever ‘they’ are – say that women can’t have unemotional sex. Translation: A woman has to really like a guy to sleep with him, or if it’s a drunken accident, then the woman really wants it to develop into something more. It’s rubbish if you ask me. I […]
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True Confessions

I have a confession to make. Actually I have a few confessions to make. But I’m not going to make them here. Sorry. Still, I don’t really owe you any do I – I mean you already know most of what I want to confess anyway… The Miranda incident up at Oxford has really been […]
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