Phew, have been trying to catch up on the thread...
Waving maybe keep your options open re Mr Soho & see what level of contact he maintains whilst on his hols, but definitely don't 'forsake' all others! As for "Mr "are you more interesting in real life". Wow! He's really got his patter down to a fine tuning- not!
Handy I'm sorry to hear about your friend. She sounds as though she wants to be liked by everyone, no matter what the consequences are. At least you had your date last night, even though he sounds like a 'me, me, me' man 
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Tanya I think you've done the right thing re Bee. It sounded like your gut was telling you something and at least you listened to it, rather than have weeks more of angst.
Jolly Congrats on rescheduling! He may well have been freeing up sometime for you, but in the knowledge that he wa gonna split and run because of other commitments, would have probably led to an uncomfortable few hours.
Back welcome to the fastest moving thread.... As others have said, you have a head start as you already know the guy. My only concern would be, how close do you work with him? If it doesn't work out, could it make it awkward for you? If not a problem, then go and enjoy!
As for me- date 1 with Mr Diamond 
. Have been chatting for a couple of weeks, and as far as 'first dates' go, this is the most nervous I have felt 
, but I'm putting that down to him telling me how nervous he is 
. On paper and by the chats we've had, we seem to be a good match, but as they say "it ain't real until it happens". Apart from many other things, we share a love of cats (he has 2) so that's a start, isn't it? .
It's a lunch time date/drinks, so note to self, is don't get too pi$$ed 
oh and he's mentioned that he may have the startings of a cold sore..... Which may well save me from myself (TMI, but it's been a long time 
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Will attempt a loo update, if there's a signal..