Girl Dates London

Dating London one man at a time

Archive for 2008/01


Judgement

I cycled home, tired and a bit grumpy and as puffed my way up a hill, I noticed a gang of hooded youths on the corner. I had to go past them to get home.
“Great”, I thought “Now I’ll get some rude remarks just to make my day”.
But instead, one of them pronounced, very loudly [...]

Independence and Dependence

Relationships are always a tricky balance of compromise and one of the more thorny subjects for me is social independence. Whilst of course it’s essential that you can go out and have fun as a couple and with your friends, I also think it’s crucial to have some social life outside the relationship.
The French Ex [...]

Wow.

Tall Tom is a star. He’s kind, interesting, intelligent and fun. We chat about everything and nothing for hours on end and beyond the contentment, there’s a very definite spark of mutual attraction.
I want to grin at him the entire time but have to resist for fear of seeming an utter nutter. I look [...]

Tidying

Tall Tom is due to come to my flat for supper tomorrow for the first time since our first date. Inevitably, this evening has been mostly spent folding, tidying, baking and other general domesticity (I realise this probably counts as false advertising but hey).
So having wasted lots of time on all this stuff he probably [...]

Ranting to Rowdy

I love friends. They are marvellous, marvellous, things.
I arrived at the pub in a foul mood. Full of ranting grumpiness about office politics, ridiculous objectives and frankly impossible people. The girls laughed good-naturedly and cheered me out of my sulk.
So it wasn’t long before we returned to our normal Rowdy Girl good humour (and sans [...]

Sod's Law is an evil thing

I cycle, lots. And fair distances (50-100 miles a week). Cycling that far leads to kit:Cycling shorts, helmet, gloves, neon stripes, clippy/cloppy shoes etc. None of which is attractive, sadly (show me a woman who looks hot in cycling shorts and I’ll show you someone I hate).

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It’s really cold at the moment [...]

Rambling angsty happiness

I’m confused.
We had a great weekend. Some fun, some domesticity and several long chats. All quite grown up behaviour. And I find myself wondering whether it’s too grown up? (And therefore boring?). Certainly sobriety has brought a (previously rarely seen) sensible vein of decision making. Tired? Go to bed. Previously of course the answer would have [...]

An introductory life story

Hi Gorgeous,
Read your profile and I just had to reply.
Please have a look at my photo and tell me if you are
interested.
I am very different and unique, was fostered
by scottish and irish people and was born and bred in
norf london. I am very different to all other men on this
thing as you will read from [...]

Doom to Delight

I am feeling faintly foolish, but happy. Tall Tom emailed this afternoon, explaining that he’s been working 18 hour days this week and apologising that this has meant our communication’s been a bit off [LG feels v.guilty at this point for having had such negative thoughts].
Tom then went on to say he’s really looking forward to [...]

Over-reaction

Reading all the comments on the previous post has made me realise I’m acting like a neurotic madwoman. Sorry. The combined effects of

being cold all week (no heating at work)
sore back
being uber-tired (too many grim client dinners that go on late)
being stressed (too much work… grrr)

have made me a not particularly balanced individual. But better [...]