Things were getting cosy with the emails and although the carer with the complicated life was not a prospect a new one had arrived.

As always the emails started off cautiously until  one of us cracked a joke and broke the ice. This is great when it happens as it becomes less formal and polite straightaway.  Not that it gets down and dirty but you can be more     yourself and feel more relaxed.

This guy was ex army and was looking to try again and said he was very shy. He was now working for a mining company since leaving the army and was looking for love.

Now I am not looking for love but our emails were getting friendlier and funnier and we were able to communicate like we were becoming best friends. I was getting hooked on checking for emails and was image building in my head of what he looked like.

Unfortunately this particular guy had never posted a photo on his profile and I did not know what he looked like. He said he had some old ones and he would forward them to me via email but it didn’t happen and I didn’t push it. I did not want to come across as being superficial when we were getting along so well with the written word.

We deicided to bite the bullet and set a time and date to meet in a watering hole in the town and then we swapped phone numbers so we could text if there was a problem on the day.

Thank god I had his number because there was a problem and yes it was me!