Am now home from a wonderful week in Atlanta helping my best girlfriend with her two week old baby boy. A long time ago, one weekend she drove through a hurricane with her boyfriend, now husband, to help me clear out my dead mother’s closet.  As we took the umpteenth load of clothes to the […]
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TBW is featured in today’s Sunday Telegraph Magazine Stella. We will put the link to the article when they put it online. Two of our members are featured in the article….
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It is always interesting when you make a sudden connection between two very distinct parts of your life.  Bizarrely I had this experience today, between this site and my favourite author and his works. For many years, long before the films, I have been a fan of ‘Lord of the Rings’, for most of that […]
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Choices, choices, choices.   We all have favourites. Be it food, clothes, designer labels, airlines, hotels……and of course   Men!   Men, glorious men. Yup!   I have been out with umpteen men over the years and have developed types. Naturally. Am sure we all do. Do you?  Maybe it is a Father thing.  All […]
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Remember how a while back I ventured some thoughts on commitment? You know, where I said I had no real idea what it was all about as far as my own little world was concerned, and that I probably just knew more about what I “didn’t” want instead. Well since then I’ve been trying to […]
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As ya’ll know, The Toyboy is back in my life, as a friend.   He has heard all about the T-Rex until we were both blue in the face and patiently listened to me obsess of what this means or that means. He’s even guided me through a tricky first few dates with a  guy […]
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Is it ever a good idea to sleep with a man on the first date?  Discuss. Should this question ever present itself on an exam paper, I’m sure the male/female response ratio would be fairly balanced. Us TBWers are an avant-garde lot, savvy enough to navigate the shark-infested waters of unconventional relationships, and within that […]
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Indiana Jones, The Mummy, TimeTeam…it’s clear, Archaeology is Sexy and Sexy is Archaeology.  However it is not very well known that there is a lot of erotic archaeology out there and I’m not just talking about texts between diggers exploring some ancient rubbish tip. Yes, I am talking about historic porn. Ever since archaeologists first […]
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…JUST A CONFUSING FOUR LETTER WORD!!!   Ok, as most of you know, I have been single for a little over a year, having ‘woken up next to Victor Meldrew’ and decided that enough was enough!!!   I joined TBW as a result of an advert on another networking site because I was curious.  I […]
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So it’s a miserable wet February morning. What shall I do… I know… I’ll clear out my bedside cupboards that are full of God knows what. So I lift everything out and dump it on the bed. Folded up are two sheets of A4 with tons of my writing. I start to read and from […]
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