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A long shot.... help me set up my friend!

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ninedragons · 26/12/2007 04:08

So, I have a very dear friend who is single and lonely. She's one of Nature's really lovely people, she's had a really hard year (unemployment, illness in the family, etc), but determined that next year will be better.

We met at university, where she was a mature student and I was your bog-standard immature student. She has asked in the past if I know anyone I could set her up with, but I no longer live in the UK and even when I did, she was so much older than all of my friends that I didn't know any candidates. It's only because she's asked about being set up and has in the past used Soulmates that I'm posting this - please don't think I'm just a bossy cow who thinks I have any sort of right to barge in and take over her life.

She would probably kill me if she knew I was doing this (but after a minute would calm down, laugh and hope I got a result), but I've been watching "Arrange Me A Marriage" and decided it's time for the people around her to take the job in hand! Does anyone know any single London/Home Counties-based lesbians in their forties or fifties who might be interested in an email or two leading to the possibility of a date if they hit it off?

My friend is your stereotypical London Guardian-reading, arts-loving lesbian. She's a lawyer, loves good conversation above all else, very well travelled (has family all over the world, mostly in India and the US), a dervish of energy, childless (but adores children), generous to the point of insanity and in her early fifties. She doesn't have a car, so ideally your equally lovely single friend would live within easy reach of London.

I spoke to her the other day and things are looking up on the job front, so I think she would be in a receptive frame of mind if I said "oh a friend of mine has a friend....."

Thanks everyone!

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WiFi · 27/12/2007 00:20

No help I am afraid, but Sarah Beeney from Property Ladder has a website in which you have to set up your friends. Can't remember the name.....

WiFi · 27/12/2007 00:21

this one

WiFi · 27/12/2007 00:22

Sorry, meant to add it's called 'My Single Friend', so it might help you. Good luck. What a nice Dragon you are

ninedragons · 27/12/2007 01:51

Aha! That site is a brilliant idea! I shall create a profile for her this week. Thanks so much, it looks ideal.

I'm so relieved I didn't log in and find I'd been flamed for being an interfering busybody.

In case anyone else is still flipping through their mental Rolodex, my friend is English but speaks fluent Mandarin, Cantonese and Hindi, so she is not restricted to English-speakers.

Thank you, ladies!
from Aneela Ninedragons

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JodieFoster2 · 09/05/2008 19:48

Hey, as it happens I know a few lesbians that fit your criteria. Would you mind sending an email address so that I could send it on to them to get in contact? They're based in Brighton (of all places)!

charliegal · 09/05/2008 20:01

bloody hell dragon, imagine she will be snapped up!good luck she sounds lovely.

jellyjelly · 11/05/2008 10:57

ah bless you for trying to help your friend out.

Have a little look on gaydar there are ladies in their 50/60 on there.

jpglambert · 13/10/2010 15:57

If she's like my daughter and a workaholic then you might find a dating site based around local single professionals like www.lovestruck.com useful. Good luck too! She is lucky to have you!

WasindieNial · 13/10/2010 23:19

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