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2020-09-29 09:28
I had to share this. Susan has been doing some internet dating again or at least "lurking on dating websites". The story sums up how the whole thing can be a little more miss than hit someti… Read More
2020-09-29 09:28
I got a T-shirt in the post this week. This is not unusual. Normally they are oversized and in some garish primary colour with a logo so large and thickly applied to make it only useful in s… Read More
2020-09-29 09:26
As you know I've done a bit of internet dating on as have a lot of people that I know. It's mostly been miss and miss. I've blogged about it a bit, as have other people, and possibly in re… Read More
2020-09-29 09:25
I swore I wasn't going to do any more Demographic Shifts posts, but I miss it. I must be a sucker for dating punishment or something.Somehow I have found myself wanting to do it again. I kno… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I step onto the back of a passing number 19 bus on Upper Street and take it all the way back to Highbury where I jump off and walk back towards home, but as I walk pass my flat I keep on goi… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
As we're leaving, well I'm already halfway up the garden path, I hear Alison's mother shout out, after us "Don't forget to stay out late," and it's true, it's just like Alison said I am in s… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
After saying goodbye to Larissa Snowe I take the tube back home, shower and change before heading straight out of the flat again over to Alison's house. Tonight Alison and I are going out on… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
It's almost six o’clock when Larissa Snowe and I are standing outside her house, her suitcases and bags packed and lined up in an orderly row on the pavement, waiting for Charlotte to… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
Susan and I are sitting in the pub when Difficult Third Date Girl walks in. I say walks in, but I didn't actually notice this entry until it was far too late and I kind of wish that I had as… Read More
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2011-06-27 16:46
I was sitting on the tube thinking about Eminem and how after a messy divorce and legal battle he's getting back together with his ex wife and wondering if I could possibly dig up an ex-girl… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
I get to see a lot of stupid press releases at work and as its just about Valentine's day it seemed only fair that I share a topical one with you.It's really lazy blogging, but this one just… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
I totally failed while off sick last week to watch any daytime TV. I feel like I failed somehow. I wish I'd caught some I really do as it's been a while since I saw any and its good to catch… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
I'm not eccentric. I just want to make that clear. I'm telling this to Susan who is of a different opinion and she points to my cereal-combining activities as proof positive."You're definite… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
Have been totally ill all week, big with the coughing and the spluttering and so low on the activity front, doing not much more than blow nose through boxes of tissues and having vivid dream… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
So I went on another date and as it turns out I should have given the whole thing a miss. I really need a new approach. Maybe I just mean approach.In retrospect, maybe I should have asked a… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
I get this all the time so I thought that I should actually deal with it rather than, you know, not deal with it.I got it again the other week from Alison. I was explaining to her a conversa… Read More
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2011-06-27 16:46
I said I wasn't really going to write about dating anymore (Mark just don’t read it), but I just had a really weird visit to Dollywood, so really I couldn’t help myself. I was so… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
"At first I thought it was a demographic thing, baby boomers reaching an age where they're dealing with the deaths of their own parents and looking at their potential mortality. But a lot of… Read More
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2011-06-27 16:46
Susan calls me on the phone to tell me that she is going to a party and that it is going to be full of skinny gorgeous models. I think I might be dribbling, hey give me a break I'm only a gu… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
I really should have learnt my lesson, but it turns out that really I'm not so good at the whole lesson learning thing. So in case you wondered this is what happened with Difficult Third Dat… Read More
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2011-06-27 16:46
I failed to make any New Year resolutions. I remembered this at around 3am in a basement jazz bar in Ostend in Belgium, where the cigarette smoke felt like it was slicing my eyeballs.Somehow… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
I went to a some media type party the other week and behaved badly. I didn't throw up or spill booze over someone vaguely important, but it was poor behaviour all the same. To be honest I fe… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
My sister was round at my house recently and was kind of shocked with what I had done with the place. Not all of it. Just a bit of it."Gordon what on earth were you thinking?"I scratched my… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
Okay, so I have been at home for precisely two days now. I think I have done Christmas and very shortly (tomorrow morning) I will return to my real life. To be fair it was great and I really… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
I've just been reading Jay McInerney's new novel, The Good Life (a sequel to his earlier book Brightness Falls), while the novel doesn't quite rise to the occasion of its post 9/11 subject m… Read More
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2011-06-27 16:46
So anyway, as it is the season of goodwill to all men, which I always think is meant in a gender neutral sense, inclusive of both men and women, so I guess that includes ex-girlfriends, howe… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
Susan is having one of those bizarre moments of insecurity brought on by a piece in The Times this week about a woman who on the eve of her marriage found out that her husband to be regularl… Read More
2011-06-27 16:46
I've been stealth dating. You know, dating but really not telling anyone about it…okay so right now not so much with the stealthy part, but to be honest. I was never the most stealthy… Read More
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2011-06-27 16:46
Susan has been berating me for my failure on both religious and parenting fronts, which is harsh as strictly speaking I'm neither religious nor a parent. Some people, I tell you.I should exp… Read More
2007-01-16 11:20
I'd like to tell you something about Sunday, but apart from that it's the day after Saturday and that it followed Susan's wedding, and our genius wedding intervention, I really can't help yo… Read More
2007-01-04 15:07
Of the many things I wished I had never uttered that last sentence is up there quite highly on the list. Immediately after I've said it a fresh round of church titters rises."Yes and it was… Read More
2006-12-23 10:51
We definitely sneak in. We don't as Larissa Snowe said we would walk in with our heads held high because as soon as we're through the door of the church we are ducking our heads down and ben… Read More
2006-12-11 16:04
Total victory! What can I say, I know therapy isn't meant to be about winning or losing, but I can't help myself I seemed to have stunned Laura into silence. I am definitely making progress… Read More
2006-12-05 11:36
Alison I have been celebrating. I should just say drinking. We have been sitting around drinking wine all evening and to be honest we're a little tipsy, but for a very good cause: it's the f… Read More
2006-11-26 19:20
Larissa Snowe Snowe and I are having lunch in Zillis in Soho as she has plans she wants to talk about for the weekend although right now we are talking about the impending wedding of Susan a… Read More
2006-11-16 18:03
Alison has me really worried, I'd always thought she was convinced they would split up and that we were at one on the issue of Adam and Susan, you know more or less. She's an expert on the l… Read More
2006-11-09 17:21
I'm so broke right now it's just not true. I'm telling this to Alison who has just made us lunch and is burping Caitlin who is now three weeks old. She's incredibly cute, small and wobbly, b… Read More
2006-11-03 13:45
I look sideways at Larissa Snowe not quite sure what she's getting at. "What do you mean?""Just that, what's on your mind.""Nothing much," I say."Fair enough," Larissa says," so what did you… Read More
2006-10-29 18:37
After everything dies down and most of the circus of relatives has gone Larissa Snowe and I are sitting outside the hospital on a wall smoking cigarettes reflecting on what has been a weird… Read More
2006-10-20 12:12
Five months laterIt's like a conference and I swear that just about anyone who is anyone is here. Somehow, and please don't ask me as I really don't know, I seem to have been elected confere… Read More
2006-10-13 11:03
The two of us set off out of the flat, down the street, and head towards the park. We walk across the junction and head down the street and across the Zebra crossing and we head up the tree… Read More
2006-10-05 13:57
I knew this would happen. When I get back from Larissa Snowe's in the morning I get this eerie glimpse of the future. Not my future, but the future. Johnny and my sister are sitting together… Read More
2006-09-28 14:59
Larissa Snowe has clamped her hand over my mouth. I'm not entirely sure, but I think she's telling me that somehow she's had enough of me talking about Adam as the two of us consume cocktail… Read More
2006-09-21 13:39
I could kill Adam, but Johnny has discouraged me from doing this what with not having a leg to stand on.It's been three days since I found out about Adam and Susan and I've decided to confro… Read More
2006-09-14 14:30
I almost forget about Adam after my session with Laura, hearing nothing from either him or Susan until a couple of days later when a very breezy Susan calls me about some work. She would nor… Read More
2006-09-14 11:15
Maybe I should have mentioned this before. I have a therapist. I didn't mean to get one it happened totally by accident. It is of course, all Susan's fault. Therapy was another one of Susan'… Read More
2006-09-01 15:45
I am in a really bad place this morning and really it has nothing to do with my Larissa Snowe related hangover. It's oh so much worse than that. I have Phil Collins in my head. See what I me… Read More
2006-08-23 12:20
"So I'm babbling at this stage at Adam, about all these thing I'm seeing, but it wasn't just babbling it all meant something. And I'm at the stage where I'm starting to think that something… Read More
2006-08-16 15:10
"Anyway, you shouldn't have any problems, advertising chick, flat, car, girl about town, you should be hanging out with friends drinking cocktails in London's finest selections of bars and r… Read More
2006-08-10 14:18
Back in the world of speed dating, our three minutes are ticking by."I was wondering when you were going to turn up. It's been quite a while."Larissa I think like me subscribes to the inesca… Read More

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