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The Boyfriend

Stats: 5’10”, brown/green Where: A party in east London Pre-date rating: N/A As you schlep your way through single life, you find yourself arriving at a lot of parties alone. At first, you try to avoid it, and make plans … Continue reading

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The Thriller

Stats: 33, 6’1”, black/blue, Gloucestershire When: Late 2011 Where: Shoreditch, east London Pre-date rating: 9/10 Dating is lonely; don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. You may be out night after night, making doe eyes at handsome strangers and maybe even … Continue reading

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The Graduate

Stats: 5’ 11”, 24, black/green, Oxfordshire Where: The local When: November 2011 Pre-date rating: 9/10 The true currency of dating, the one you never really think about, is time. Whether you’re buttering up a honey in a noisy bar, doing … Continue reading

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The Producer

Stats: 5’10″, 31, black/brown, southern England When: March 2011 Where: London, SE1 Pre-date rating: 7/10 As regular readers will know, the timeline of my dates is all scrambled up. Why? Well, because not all dates make it onto the blog … Continue reading

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The Youngling

Stats: 26, 5’9″, black/ brown, north-east England When: July 2010 Where: Shoreditch, E1 Pre-date rating: 7/10 Young people. I tend to have very little contact with them, except for the ones who play dubstep through their mobile phones on buses … Continue reading

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The Drunk Mexican

Stats: 5’10″, 32, black/brown, Mexico When: Saturday 31 July, 1pm and 10.30pm Where: South-east London Pre-date rating: 7/10 We’re now well into our double figures and the dates become more and more disillusioning as time goes on. So we arrive … Continue reading

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The Drunk

Stats: 31, 5’10″, blond/blue, London When: June 2010 Where: Spitalfields, London Pre-date rating: 5/10 Here we are again then. It goes without saying that I haven’t heard back from The Previous Guy, and I’m not particularly devastated about this. Gotta … Continue reading

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The Mexican

Stats: 29, 5’9″, brown/green, Mexico When: April 2010 Where: Columbia Rd,London Pre-date rating: 8/10 Somewhat deflated from my previous experience with the cherry popper, I feel some trepidation in meeting this one. We have been chatting over email and text … Continue reading

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