{"id":13680,"date":"2025-10-15T23:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/?p=13680"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:34:17","slug":"blind-big-date-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/blind-big-date-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind big date | Dating |"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Hannah on Jack
\n <\/h2>\n

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\n Initial impressions?
\n <\/strong>
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\n Good-looking. And \u00adterribly\u00a0polite \u00e2\u0080\u0093 the guy invested the first ten minutes apologising profusely if you are about 30 \u00adseconds late.\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\n What did you discuss?
\n <\/strong>
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\n Ray hookups mear me<\/a>
\n , the royal \u00adfamily, training, and also the perpetual argument of cats vs\u00a0puppies.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Any shameful minutes?
\n <\/strong>
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\n I don’t think so.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Great dining table ways?
\n <\/strong>
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\n Positively. He also \u00admanaged to consume tiger prawns decorously.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Smartest thing about Jack?
\n <\/strong>
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\n Easygoing and chatty.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Did you continue someplace?
\n <\/strong>
\n
\n No \u00e2\u0080\u0093 we moved into tubing, subsequently parted means on\u00a0the Central line.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Markings out-of 10?
\n <\/strong>
\n 7.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Would you satisfy once again?
\n <\/strong>
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\n Not likely \u00e2\u0080\u0093 there clearly was no biochemistry. But I\u00a0had a\u00a0very good\u00a0night.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Jack on Hannah
\n <\/h2>\n

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\n
\n Initial impressions?
\n <\/strong>
\n Friendly, smart, good humoured, easygoing and\u00a0articulate.\n <\/p>\n

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\n What did you speak about?
\n <\/strong>
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\n Politics, books, living in London, the tasks, \u00aduniversity, kitties’ brands, Ray Mears, Vietnam. All of which had been spoken about with ironic humour.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Any awkward times?
\n <\/strong>
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\n Nothing that I found myself familiar with.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Great table manners?
\n <\/strong>
\n Yes, the two of us managed the \u00adunusual sweets really.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Ideal thing about this lady?
\n <\/strong>
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\n Outstanding sense of \u00adhumour, capacity to have absurd \u00adconversations and a beneficial feeling of paradox.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Did you carry on somewhere?
\n <\/strong>
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\n Simply to the tubing.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Markings away from 10?
\n <\/strong>
\n 9 \u00e2\u0080\u0093 i must say i \u00adenjoyed it.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Can you meet once again?
\n <\/strong>
\n Yeah, as\u00a0buddies.\n <\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>
\n Hannah and Jack consumed at
\n Trishna
\n , 15-17 Blandford Street, London W1, 020-7935 5624.\n <\/p>\n

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\n How it happened then?
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\n Clive Harris and Kate Norum’s blind date ended up being printed in
\n April 2009
\n . Kate gave Clive 8 away from 10, Clive offered Kate 9.
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\n Blind go out Clive Harris Photo: Totally Free
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\n Clive
\n <\/strong>
\n I did not see Kate once again. I think which was more down to her when I ended up being into offering it the second go. We made buddies on Twitter and she delivered me an email to state she’d got house properly. I’m with somebody now when I informed her regarding the date she found it hilarious I would completed anything. I’m happy I did it. At that time I was thinking, Sod it, i may also!\n <\/p>\n

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\n Blind date Kate Norum Photograph: Totally Free
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\n Kate
\n <\/strong>
\n I do believe perhaps Clive ended up being enthusiastic about fulfilling me personally once more but I didn’t feel there was any chemistry. We’d a delightful evening and I also couldn’t have required better business. He delivered me a beautiful message on Facebook a day later. I became actually nervous in route there and considered to me, “What have always been I doing!?” nonetheless it was okay. I realized when everything else unsuccessful we might have one dialogue point no less than \u00e2\u0080\u0093 that individuals both take a look at same paper.\n <\/p>\n


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Hannah on Jack Initial impressions? Good-looking. And \u00adterribly\u00a0polite \u00e2\u0080\u0093 the guy invested the first ten minutes apologising profusely if you are about 30 \u00adseconds late. What did you discuss? Ray hookups mear me , the royal \u00adfamily, training, and also the perpetual argument of cats vs\u00a0puppies. Any shameful minutes? I don’t think so. Great dining table ways? Positively. He also \u00admanaged to consume tiger prawns decorously. Smartest thing about Jack? Easygoing and chatty. Did you continue someplace? No \u00e2\u0080\u0093 we moved into tubing, subsequently parted means on\u00a0the Central line. Markings out-of 10? 7. Would you satisfy once again? Not likely\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13681,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions\/13681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyhess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}