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First Date #48 – How it went

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #CountyWexford #Gorey #SunnySouthEast #Ireland #LEGO After our caffeinated beverages, she showed me around Gorey. Over there was some house where she used to live, that building with the painted pig is where an older family member had a business, and around the corner from that was […]

First Date #48 – How it started

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #CountyWexford #Gorey #SunnySouthEast #Ireland #LEGO First Date #48 was with an Irish woman living in Gorey, County Wexford. We matched on Bumble. Our initial chatting back and forth was pleasant. She mentioned that she loved theatre and musicals. When she said that Rocky Horror Picture Show […]

First Date #47 – How it went

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #Dublin #Dublin3 #Clontarf #ClontarfPromenade #Ireland #LEGO It was an absolutely lovely day, and I was lucky enough to be enjoying it with a gorgeous, young woman. We got drinks and walked along the promenade. She told me that she had two teenage boys, though she didn’t […]

First Date #47 – How it started

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #Dublin #Dublin3 #Clontarf #ClontarfCastle #Ireland #LEGO First Date #47 was with a Ukrainian woman living in Lusk, County Dublin. We matched on Bumble. As this was well before the current crisis in Ukraine, matching with a Ukrainian woman was unusual but also uninteresting. I matched with […]

Happy birthday to me

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #Dublin #Dublin2 #TempleBar #TheTempleBarPub #Ireland #LEGO #Birthday #HappyBirthday I’ve always loved my birthday. Birthdays are like second Christmas; you get gifts, cakes and birthday sex if in a consensual relationship! From 1995-2016, I was lucky enough to be in a relationship for 20 of those 21 […]

First Date #46 – How it went

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #CountyDublin #Fingal #Balbriggan #BalbrigganBeach #Ireland #LEGO After that First Date, I didn’t really feel that there was a connection, though we remained Facebook friends. After so many dates, I was tired of trying to make something out of nothing. So, I didn’t reach out to FirstDate46 […]

First Date #46 – How it started

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #Dublin #Dublin1 #OConnellStreet #TheSpire #Ireland #LEGO First Date #46 was with a Polish woman living in Dublin. We matched on Bumble. She had very professional looking profile pictures. And that’s because she is both a photographer and a very photogenic woman. We matched in December 2020, […]

First Date #45 – How it went

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #CountyKilkenny #Kilkenny #KilkennyCastle #KilkennyCastlePark #Ireland #LEGO It’s a good thing my expectations were tempered. Once again, there wasn’t much attraction on my part when she arrived. We have a lot in common, and I could have seen us becoming friends, but I didn’t really need a […]

First Date #45 – How it started

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #CountyKilkenny #Kilkenny #KilkennyCastle #KilkennyParade #Ireland #LEGO First Date #45 was with an Irish woman living in County Laois. We matched on Bumble. Shortly after matching, we moved the conversation to WhatsApp. So that she could properly add me to her contacts, she asked my last name […]

Would you like to read some of my poetry?

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #Dublin #Dublin2 #TempleBar #Ireland #3OlympiaTheatre #LEGO For the last ten years, I have been writing poetry that I like to call Stick Person Poetry. My dumb drawings and ridiculous rhymes have been entertaining dozens of people since 1 January, 2013. I initially started it as a […]

First Date #44 – How it went

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #COVID #Kilkenny #MyHouse #LivingRoom #Ireland #LEGO EASTER MONDAY A male friend of FirstDate44 gave her a lift from Cahir to Kilkenny during a lockdown. That must be some friend. Though we had never met in person, there she was in my front room. It didn’t take […]

First Date #44 – How it started

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #COVID-19 #ZOOM #Ireland #LEGO First Date #44 was with a Spanish woman living in Cahir, County Tipperary. We matched on Bumble. She didn’t speak English very well, and I didn’t speak Spanish very well. But each of us knew enough to start the conversation, and Google […]

First Date #43 – How it went

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #CountyKilkenny #Kilkenny #KilkennyCastle #KilkennyCastlePark #Ireland #LEGO I know that people appreciate the longer posts, but there’s just no point in delaying the inevitable with this one – it didn’t work out. It was never going to work out. Honestly, I was desperate to meet ANYBODY during […]

First Date #43 – How it started

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #CountyKilkenny #Kilkenny #KilkennyCastle #KilkennyParade #Ireland #LEGO First Date #43 was with an American woman living in County Kilkenny. We matched on Facebook. Who even knew Facebook was dipping their toe into the dating app pool? Well, this desperate widow did, and it was a mostly worthless […]

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything

#FirstDate #FirstDates #FirstDatesIRL #Dating #Dublin #Dublin2 #DameStreet #Ireland #HitchhikersGuide #WhatDoYouGetIfYouMultiplySixByNine #LEGO Most every nerd of a certain age knows that “The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything” is 42. Here is an entry in Wikipedia for the number 42: The number 42 is, in The […]