speed dating

I had arranged to go to the speed dating with one of the women I had met at the first pub meet I went to a couple of weeks ago. she is a taxi driver so I offered to drive to give her a night off (she's driving on saturday when we go to the pub quiz). she was extremely nervous, I don't really know why .....no thats wrong I do know why, But I just figured that I was going to enjoy myself and have a good night out whatever happened.

there were not many of us there and some of them didn't join in. considering there had been more women than men signed up for the evening it was suprising to find that there were more men than women there. Anyway we were given a card to write down the name and number of each man we chatted to. we were then supposed to put a tick for one of the following against each man. Y N F obviously we all knew what Y and N were for but none of us could figure out the F until someone suggested it was fuck off.....it turned out to be friend.

the first man I chatted to was very nervous and neither of us knew what to say. We did manage to speak but it was very disjointed. It was obviously not going well which was emphasised when he said 'these four minutes are taking a long time!' I gave him a big N

man number two wasn't bad looking quite a bit younger than me as was number one, but this one had a bit more about him. he spends a lot of time at sea, as an officer on his ship. I gave him an F

man number three omg this man has done everything and been everywhere and knows everything!! I found this out through talking to him in a group both before and after the main event. I gave him an N

man number four was fine a little older than me he has worked in my town so we talked about the town and one of the pubs he used to go to. we talked about our reasons for being there and wanting friends to socialise with. I gave him an F

man number five was slightly older than me I think. we got on fine. again he has worked in my town we again talked about that and the road works around the motorway juntion near his home. we talked about honesty and the need for women to hide behind an alias but it not being so important for men. at the end we were still sat chatting wondering what happens next. I asked him if he was glad he had come to the event. 'I met you didn't I?' he said I also gave him an F

I chatted in agroup with my new friend and a few others until it was time to go home as the pub was closing. last night I got an email informing me that I had 2 matches, man number 2 and number 4.

the next event is the pub quiz on saturday. then there is anothe pub meet on the 27th followed by a motorbike ride and bbq the following sunday 30th september.

playing at being big kids

It's friday and tonight I'm going to be out playing like a big kid. Bumped into a friend in asda thursday evening she is also a member of the same dating site, so shes arranged a baby sitter and shes coming with me. We are going to share a taxi so that means that when we are finished here we can join some of the others at pub where there is a band playing and a late licence until 1am. If I avoid the white wine I should be ok (fingers crossed). It's nice to know that when I told Forest what I will be upto unlike my kids who were worried I would break the slides Forest was n more concerned that I might break me. If I do it will be a good excuse for some of his TLC ;-)

Everyone is worrying about the red slide But when I have taken my kids there in the past I think the blue one is worse not that I have been on any of them.



Update

got home at 3am from a great night out.
Playzone was heaving with big kids of all ages from around 18 to mid 50s I would guess. my friend Petra and I had loads of goes on the gentler slide that you go down on mats. we also explored the other parts of the play areas those rope bridges are bloody painful on the feet! but otherwise it was fun. another woman we had been chatting to persuaded us to go on the blue slide all three of us together. eventually we managed to find our way to the top. we all sat on the ledge but when it came to it I just couldn't go down. It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the slide but I just couldn't push myself over the edge. I think maybe if i had been drinking or it was later in the evening or someone gave me a bit of a push I could have done it. Anyway it was all good sweaty fun. the music was too loud though so we headed off to the pub a bit earlier than planned (10pm).

the pub was very busy there was a band playing. they did a variety of numbers including, "I predict a riot" and "American Idiot". the queue for drinks was so bad that we were getting two drinks at a time. There were as many people sat outside the pub as inside due to the new smoking rules. We were amazed at the range of people there from the young to the old, rocker to punks. It is essentially a bikers pub I discovered. as the hours passed some people drifted away until in the end there were just five of us left. 3 women and 2 men. Of course the chat turned to the obvious subject off sex. this was quite a lively conversation with all of us having very different views and experiences. The pub shut at 1am but we didn't leave until 2.30am. It was the first social event Petra had been to with the site although shes been on the site for a couple of years but she enjoyed it and will come with me to the speed dating evening.