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When one needs escape, one goes on holiday… I did it before if you recall. My “Playa Bastian” reflective blues on what lies ahead. Well what lies ahead is creeping up very fast. I’m thirty-five very soon. Thirty-five! But that’s one for another fireside. So far I’ve still got time. Just. Anyway recently I shipped […]
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Just to fill you in on the back story to this new excerpt: Calm Best Friend and I are in the Alps on a ski trip.  She has succumbed to a bout of food poisoning and is confined to bed.  I’m having a little flirtette with the Hotel Manager (Hot Frog) who has no idea […]
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After working extensively in the field for several years, I’ve clarified my experience into the following: 1)   Work out what it is YOU want from the boy and be honest with yourself and him. If you want to go out with him, don’t pretend to yourself that you just want to be mates, or just […]
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Following on from one of the recent news items on here, I thought I might share one with you. It actually happened years ago, one of my very first experiences of internet dating and one that put me off it for years in fact. I joined Udate… it must have been in 1999 or 2000 […]
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We all know that when we meet people from the site they don’t always look exactly how they do in their photos, or maybe in our exuberance we forget to look at the height section, but still!!        I get a lot of messages on the site, not always sensitive and intelligent and they mostly […]
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What is a woman to do when she is struggling to find herself after years of being hidden away? This is the question I posed myself. The answer came loud and clear from somewhere inside me, the part, I suspect, desperate to escape. ‘Burlesque’ it screamed…… Setting up this adventure required a little research and […]
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Our next party is this Saturday at Potion, 28 Maple st, London W1T 6HP [nearest tube: Warren st] from 7.30 until 3 am. We are also celebrating Wendy Salisbury’s latest book “Daily Male” the follow up to her first book The Toyboy Diaries, which is out at the end of the month. Wendy will be […]
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It’s Sunday morning and I’m sitting in my bedroom in Spain, looking out over the calm blue Mediterranean and giggling. No one is tickling me – no dog or cat, grandchild or lover – though my friend, Rich-ard is asleep in the other room. He is, sadly, neither Rich nor ‘ard – but a good […]
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Those of you who have read a few of my articles will know that I managed to spend four months of last year writing on a Caribbean Island, Barbados to be precise.  My 14 year old son is very scathing about it……… ’Mum how come your job lets you lie on a beach all day?’…….. […]
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I shouldn’t be here… Where, you ask. Here. Exactly where I didn’t want that pesky little BD Conscience Devil of mine to lead me. But he did; my flesh, it appears, still remains weak where lustrous hair, captivating eyes and compelling conversation are involved. I’ve relapsed. I’m the smoker who after a six month break […]
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