Sometimes, God can speak through ducks. Not often, mind

Well, this is a first. Thanks to the unending genius of iPhone apps, I’m blogging today from the train on the way home from Kew Gardens, where I have just paid a 13 quid entrance fee to kick leaves about. I’m not particularly in tune with nature. Any friend will attest to this. At the [...]

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Bona Fide Crush returns to the fray

Gulp. Confused. Flustered. Bona Fide Crush just made a surprise appearance at my side as I was reading the paper in the canteen. We had such a nice, easy chat and he smiled at me so very prettily that I was tempted to think that he was, once again, showing more than a passing co-worker’s [...]

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To bike, or not to bike?

Well, I now have a date lined up for next week, which is encouraging as you’ll have noticed something of a hiatus in actual dating stories from the last couple of weeks. For those of you who only log in to get a vicarious thrill out of my romantic outings/laugh at my incompetence, I apologise. [...]

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The holy men speak. And I am very much afraid

Men of God, all is forgiven. I’ve had an email from one of your number on the Christian dating site, and it is a very good email. Funny, well-styled, not too long, and with all the right pop culture references to suggest that he is, as Jane Austen would have said, a man of information. [...]

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The allure of the older man?

I had dinner with three older gentleman friends this week. One of them is in their late 40s, one in their 50s, and one in their 60s. They’re people I met through work and discovered a certain chemistry with, and now we get together once a year or so to go out for a meal. [...]

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Now is the time to ‘holy up’

Still nothing from the men of God. Hmm. I mentioned this to a couple of girls at church last night and we discussed whether you need an entirely different approach for a Christian site. Surely, I argued, you’re the same person whichever site you’re on, so you shouldn’t have to change your profile according to [...]

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Speak to me someone…

Well so much for my first all-Christian dating site. It’s been a week now and I’ve not had as much as a peace-be-with-you from anyone. I don’t understand it. I’m using the same picture, and most of the same profile, as I used (successfully) on previous sites. I admit I might have made a few [...]

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Calling at Sloane Central and Liberal Utopia

As part of the dating experiment I’ve decided to try out a different website each month. Along the same principle of the guys who do over casinos in Las Vegas, I guess. When you’re looking to take down the house, you don’t hit the same place twice in a row… Anyway, after only two months [...]

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The Invention of Lying: not a date movie

A word of advice to any nice Christian girls out there: don’t go to see The Invention of Lying on a date. This is what happens when you refuse to read reviews of films you want to see. I hate even minor plot spoilers. So I went into Ricky Gervais’s latest with no clue what [...]

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Why sexual tension is over-rated

Although I enjoy my conversations with Bona Fide Crush, they have always been tainted by their horrible self-consciousness. Quite apart from the stilted smalltalk, I seem to have uncovered a natural talent for physical comedy, like the time we were chatting and I tried to lean nonchalantly on my armrest, only for it fall off [...]

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