Most of us let our career lives spill into our personal lives now and again. I now work with one of my best friends so we regularly talk shop once we’ve left the office and our perfect (admittedly tenuous) excuse for watching Eurovision this year is that it will provide research material and further insights into the Eastern European market.

Sometimes the love of work can take over a date or even a holiday… Hot Danish spent an afternoon alone on a boat during our last holiday in Thailand while I went back to our room to write; I spent a day alone while he finished an assignment. Similarly, Natasha wondered where her then boyfriend was during a holiday in Greece and finally found him back at the hotel room – flow charts were pinned to every wall. ‘Failing to plan is planning to fail,’ he said when she enquired what he was up to.

I’ve previously recounted a few dates when the date has been late and I have felt that the BB has received more attention than me. However, it’s preferable to past relationships receiving too much (or any) attention during a date. Natasha had a humorous experience of this. ‘What’s your favourite London museum?’ she asked me while we were at a Friday Late at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. ‘The V&A,’ I replied.

‘My love for the V&A was destroyed after a rather tainted date there with Jacques during which he sulked while we checked out an exhibition. When I asked what was wrong he said, without irony, that most of the paintings and artefacts weren’t as expensive as some of the ones he’d lost during his divorce.’