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A couple of books circulating the book swap/booze club are written from the perspective of men with autism-spectrum disorders such as Asperger’s syndrome. This has given the all-female group an excuse to discuss ‘extreme male brain.’ I didn’t realise that … Read more →

Naturally, out, loud and fabulously proud people descend on the city during Gay Pride. Some people are, however, more loud than out. Natasha and I were sipping Prosecco at the bar in Momo when a stereotypical gay guy (big hair, … Read more →

Hot Danish placed his rubbish on the table. A step to the left and he could have put it in the bin. But he didn’t. So I picked it up and put it in the bin. The next day I … Read more →

Natasha is in the qualifying stage of dating. Her French beau recently forwarded her an article on the 11 differences between dating a boy versus a man – he means business.

It was easy to identify who from our past … Read more →

Hot Danish and I have an unwritten rule: we do not talk about exes in front of the other. Not all couples are as sensitive/childish as us. Take my friend Evelyn: while recounting the goth stage of her youth she … Read more →

‘I want to talk about finance with him.’ Hot Danish was planning what to do with his pre-teen nephew, Tom, who was coming to stay for a weekend for the first time. ‘Do you not want him to stay with … Read more →

‘We’d love to return next year if you can put up with a pothead and a cougar who is obsessed with young Dutch men?’ Mark and his Japanese wife Emi visited from London last weekend. They had bought several guidebooks … Read more →

‘You will soon be blacklisted from every gym in Amsterdam,’ Hot Danish said. Natasha and I are trialling gyms in our neighbourhood with a view to join one. There was the €3,300 per year near-empty hotel gym which hadn’t updated … Read more →

I’ve previously mentioned that I’ve been doing a bit of research on LinkedIn for work. Like all profile reading experience we soon learn to read between the lines (which once resulted in my friend, the Gentleman’s spoof online dating customer … Read more →

‘Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,’ John Lennon once said. I thought of this saying when the customs officer impounded my passport (my claim that I had lost it in March had clearly not … Read more →