"You made him old." I've not updated this blog for over a year, mainly because I started a new really busy job that didn't...

"I know that I'm the most inept that ever stepped." I was meant to go on a date with this person about 4 or 5 years ago but sh...

"Hello, I am the ghost of Troubled Joe." Having used the same apps for ages with the same results, I thought I'd try Hinge pr...

"You say: " 'Ere long done do does did," words which could only be your own." This was my first and probably last da...

"As merry as the days were long, I was right and you were wrong." These two dates happened 6 months ago in December 2020 so they...

"It's a hideous trait." I met for a really long walk and coffee with this person a few weeks before Christmas. She lives less ...

"I'd get such a shock, I'd probably jump in the ocean." This date took place in early November, so when COVID restrictions...

"I need to cling to something."   I sort of got the brush-off initially from this person and I wish in retrospect that I hadn...

"The Hand that Rocks the Cradle."  Given that this person lived in Kent, I didn't think that there was much chance of us meeti...

"The sun shines out of our behinds." After getting nowhere on other dating apps, I made the decision to go back to the dark side a...

"It's so lonely on a limb." This was my second date since the lockdown restrictions had been relaxed and we met after a short ...

"They cannot touch you now." My very first Lockdown date and it was pretty much business as usual. I was genuinely really l...

"And so I drank one, it became four." This date had taken ages to sort out as she only seemed to reply once a week on Tinder....

"I wish I could laugh." To describe the 6 weeks that we dated as intense would be an understatement but it also unfortunately...

"Pass the pub that wrecks your body." I had an early warning that this person was going to be flakey after she cancelled our ...

"So, goodbye." I assume that this will turn out to be the last date that I meet from Guardian Soulmates considering it will b...

"Your youth may be gone but you're still a good man." Before we met, and at her suggestion, we had a Facetime chat. I ...

"If you must write prose and poems, the words you use should be your own." I didn't know this before I met this woman fo...

                                    "A double bed and a stalwart lover for sure." After chatting quite a lot on Bumble , our ...

"Shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to." Just before our first date, while I was walking a...