Approximate Reading time – 25min When I signed up with my supply teaching agencies at the beginning of the year, I had two very explicit instructions: No teens, preteens or anything remotely related to teens. (People always comment on how much patience I must have working with children, but let me set the record straight: …
Author: Gayle Hill
Dating stories- Part 2
Reading time is 25 minutes Take-Two with Amos Fast forward to the following weekend, another meet-up, and who should I bump into but Amos. I met Amos about 4 months ago at one of my first-ever meetups. I wrote about the night when we spent most of the evening dancing together, and then he never asked me …
Dating stories…Part 1
Reading time is 20 minutes Oh my God, I feel like I’m so backlogged with dating stories. I’m like 4 weeks behind already…..sometimes I get carried away with all this deep shit, like loneliness and life lessons. 😂 I mean I do secretly love my deep shit, really! But writing dating stories is so much …
Accepting loneliness, Embracing solitude
Reading time: 25 minutes I recently finished reading a book by Gail Honeyman called ‘Eleanor Oliphant is just fine.’ It’s definitely a very interesting read about a woman who struggles with the basic logistics of everyday life. Having had an abusive mother as a child she was consequently moved from foster home to foster home …
DeAd Cool!
Reading time: 25 minutes I left London in 2010 to move back to South Africa and I swore blind that there was no way in hell I would ever, ever be moving back here. When I eventually decided to move here last year, it was a “grin and bear” it choice based mainly on my …
It’s my birthday!
So I’m 44 years old today… I’ll be honest, when I look at my life I have absolutely nothing that I thought I wanted by this age. I have no husband, I have no kids, I don’t a have fiance, a boyfriend..or even a friend with benefits 😏 I don’t have a permanent job and I don’t …
Creating the Love of your life (Part 3)
Approximately a 15 minute read 3. Learn to just have fun, nothing is personal. Random guy story #3 So the following weekend, after my slight disappointment with Aakesh, I head off to another Meetup group. It was about 10 pm and I was being stalked by a drunk puppy dog. (I kid you not). At …
Creating the love of your life (Part 2)
(Approximately a 26-minute read) 3. Setting High Standards (..and then living them yourself.) Random Guy story #2. So the following night I was out at another mixer when I happened to meet two more amazing women AND another amazing man…(oooh imagine that?) I will be honest, I wasn’t initially attracted to Aakesh but when he …
Creating the love of your life (Part 1)
(Reading time is approximately 15 minutes) It was a high school assembly in 1992 and a teacher who was retiring decided to play us a song just before she left. The song was “The Greatest Love” by Witney Houston. All I remember hearing were these words: “I never found anyone who fulfils my needs. A …
The “You are FaBuLouS (right now)” Man
(Reading time is approximately 15 minutes) I have to admit I have had a pretty amazing couple of weeks. In an attempt to conquer my (often hidden) anxiety of attending large social events I have successfully attended three organised dating nights, some super weird woo-woo spiritual group and a “freebie” course claiming to teach me …