When I was single I used to hate when people would say “Oh, maybe you’ll meet a nice man at the gym!” Even magazines were at it, insisting that not only would working out improve your sunny disposition (and therefore attractiveness to the opposite sex, because yes, this is still the ’50s) but also gyms [...]

As usual, I bought an appointments diary in December. It was for this year. With every shining page there glowed the hope of exciting times. Potential. Progress. What a happy little book it was! What a fat, full little book it would be! Now, one month into 2010, I can look back at the pages [...]