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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A growing number of older women are dating younger men – but what’s in it for the “toy boys”? Doug Hendrie tracks down four men who have nothing but praise for “cougar” women. Mitchell Burns always thought Lucie Puk was cute. He worked with her in the bookshop at Melbourne’s Monash University for more than […]
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For those of you ferociously dating, mastering conflicts needn’t be an issue. As soon as the first sign of strife looms you can just turn your pretty/handsome shoulder, pop open your notebook, scroll down the yummy photos and wink at the next eager to please suitor. But for those of us bound and chained to […]
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It struck me recently, reading one of the news items on TBW that a lot of the problems in relationships of any kind, are expectations.  That question which habitually creeps up on the messages on the site, you know the one. …..What are you looking for? I thought I knew what it was I WANTED………after […]
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