Estimated reading time: 7 min It’s been a good week! It’s been snowing in London. The world is truly beautiful when it’s all painted white! This week I have been looking after beautiful Maya, who is blind in one eye. I have honestly never been greeted by such a manic, barking, biting, jumping, licking dog …
Category: Dating
The Parts of Me
(Written 14th March 2021) I was lying in bed Struggling to get up This overwhelming feeling My heart is shut Anxiety has gripped me Badly this week Poetry has been hiding Refusing to speak Most days I struggle To even meditate I’ve cried so much It’s hard to regulate So, I crawl back into bed …
“I didn’t want to be rude!”
Hello all, So I found a couple of old posts that I wrote in 2020, (and then never posted!) I kinda figured I need to post them first before I continue with my poems….(for continuity’s sake!;-) This particular experience was such a huge life lesson for me… I got to watch firsthand how I continually …
Dating stories- Part 2
Reading time is 25 minutes Take-Two with Amos Fast forward to the next 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 where we spent most of the evening dancing together and then …
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 …
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 …