Holidays, Hippies and Indiana Jones

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Holidays, Hippies and Indiana Jones

Why the hell can’t people just go on holiday any more! Seriously, holidays used to be fun. You went away, sat by pool or on the beach drank a few cocktails, tried not to think about the mountain of inane emails that would be waiting for you when you got back… and hopefully you got […]
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Can’t Commit Won’t Commit?

Okay what I’m going to say will be unpopular to some, but hell I’m going to say it anyway. But let me put this into context first, so that you might at least see where I’m coming from… When I started out of this little adventure of mine a few months shy of my thirtieth […]
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2″ should be plenty…

I went to a fantastic party last night at 33 Portland Place [note to self: great venue for a TBW ball] and it was one of the best parties I’ve ever been to. The decaying grandeur of an Robert Adam mansion, endless rooms where strange things were going on, alcohol flowing like the early spring […]
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Help! His mother’s my age!

Something very big happened this week. After two years and two months together with J, his mother made a small gesture that may symbolize my acceptance into the family fold. Jetlagged and shell-shocked the day after getting back from India, we were at his younger sister’s confirmation, waiting for the official photograph in front of […]
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Does age difference matter?

Setting: a heritage transport-related mess room, somewhere rural a long way from anywhere glamorous. Ms X: “So, Paul, why did you ask me out?” Paul: “Well, if you remember, I’d been trying to chat you up for the previous 2 years, because I wanted to get to know you better.” Ms X: “Oh yeah, that […]
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Rollercoaster Ride

As ya’ll know, and are sick to damn death hearin’ about it I am sure, but too polite to say so, I am now effectively divorced.   As of last week that is.  And yep, last week was up there with my mother’s terminal brain tumour dying in the living room with the cat on […]
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Beach,sea,surf and Bajan Boys

As promised I’ve returned to a snowy English spring with all the gossip on the Caribbean, although I was hard pressed to get on that plane back to London. Now I understand why my black boyfriends were always so laid back, a diet of sea, sun sand and sex definitely destroys all the brain cells […]
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Exit Pursued By Her Bare

“All the world’s a stage,” wrote the Bard. Yet what he perhaps never thought to add though was how to scene steal during the interval… I went to the theatre the other night to see the latest arty West End talking point. It was a freebie courtesy of one of those websites my agency puts […]
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Dating in a Different Dimension

The Internet… it’s mental I mean sure there’s lots of mental stuff on there, and lots of mental people too! But the really mental thing is how it works at all. Billions of machines all over the world somehow talking too each other, truly mental! Take your computer for example, it lets you do all […]
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The Joy of Text

Texting, like sex on a first date, is a very delicate matter when you’re at the beginning of a new relationship. It’s easy to overkill by textual harassment i.e. sending repeated messages without waiting for the requisite reply. And when they do reply, this raises the question: how soon, if at all, to reply to […]
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