to have forgotten what went with frangipan?

[Hullygully]

Skips prettily about the vast empty potentiality of the empty Hall and awaits.

Got it! Brilliant idea!

Go round and see his garden (looking fanfuckingtastic) and be all super friendly yet reserved, and at some point manage to drop in that you believe he is gay eg "you homosexuals are so lucky with your colour sense" (but obviously a leetle better than that)and judge his feelings from his response.

Dead cert to flush him out. Tally ho!

Great idea!

It doesn't help that my eczema has flared up and now my face looks like something left in the back of my fridge...or would look like, if I didn't rigorously clean it every day due to 'elf and safety guidelines....

so picture today, completely given up on crush love...skip into cafe with 10 year old son in tow, looking rather bumpy and red faced...and lo, crush object lounging at a table with anuvver girl in tow...

but all invites to garden issued in presence of girl, so can't be a girlfriend, so poss gay...

shall be mature and attractive with youthful zest and enthusiasm for planting basil in his borders...

I don't know if I like him.

What's he doing with all these gels?

well, clearly has lots of women friends (gay question again) which doesn't bother me in the slightest...(apart from gay question)...

Yes..is definitely sounding as if he might dance up the other end of the ballroom. Is he terribly good looking? Groomed? How are his fingernails?

he is terribly nice looking...all open-faced boyishness...atop the body of a god...ashffh mmmmnfhhfffhh! But have my gaydar is not bleeping at all...

Does he tend his eyebrows? And what about the fingernails?

Do you know his name? We (gets over involved) could check him out on gaydar or even facebook?

only know his first name....but plan to find out surname when I drop by his this week...I have address! so casual invite..but an invite nonetheless.

Should actually be thinking about Much More Important Things such as someone is interested in being a backer of the cafe.....

I promise the gaydar is not even murmering. And he is doing up his house and garden at the mo, so no clues from nails...eyebrows did not strike me as unnaturally groomed...

gah!

where is captain darcy when you need him to thrash a man's intentions out of him with his fine horsewhip?

Ok. Double pronged pincer attack manoeuvre. Get surname for checking purposes, and try out homo reference for flushing. Meanwhile - a backer! tres exciting.

Gotta go.

Farewell, Princess Hully, many thanks for the tiny lace-edged hankies and delicate handholding...not to mention the underhand sterling suggestions...

mwah

Ohhhh an invite to see his garden! now don't get all flustered and inappropriate and blurt something about returning the favour and asking him to check out your splendid bush or owt

When is the visit planned?

he he Gibbon.

Ask him if he'd like to visit your Lady Garden.

Mimi, he is SO gay. I betcha a whole loada wong.

I have some v handsome and manly gay friends (one a gardener) and you would absolutely not know they were gay.

well, the lovely person who I pay to be my friend make cakes and puds for me says he is absolutely not gay...

I think I will stick with the lovely open and friendly angle...in lieu of any romance I could do with a nice local friend who is a boy....all my other boy friends are scattered round the country now and I do so miss them...

Oh, okay then . In that case, it's back to the double pronged flushing Plan A.

Can't pudding friend make discreet enquiries?

You could play it cool

or

You could sip some tea prettily and ask in your most innocent voice if it is true that gardeners have incredibly large schlongs?

Ask him if he scatters seed with gay abandon.

well, he can definitely till my rows any day of the week....

cake lady has only met him once, but says her gaydar did not ping at all....

am feeling all nervous and antsy as have a meeting tomorrow morning to ask a panel for a loan for the business (builder still on my back...)

but the upside is I have lost two stone since opening...

2 stone! bloody hell Mimi are you forgetting to eat some of the gorgeous food you are cooking?

Hope the meeting goes well x

I needed to lose it....now at 10st 13, and I really don't carry weight well...so happy to see reappearance of charming curves...