In the beginning

Most of my friends are all married. It’s OK – I still love them regardless. In fact I have even got used to the fact that I am the gooseberry. I mean they’re a couple, a pair, one half of the other. They are always do couple things together – like dining together, drinking together, holidaying together, seeing movies or going to the theatre together….

Ironically, my partnered friends all think I have this wild life – which sometimes I do - but it’s not all swinging from chandeliers drinking champagne until the early hours of the morning! I mean don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of fun but there are also plenty of things I haven’t been able to do because I was crippled by the fear of doing things on my own.

That was until recently when I joined twitter. I really struggled with twitter initially. I couldn’t understand why people liked it or what they were going on about. Let’s be honest, to me it felt like I was eaves dropping in on strangers conversations. I felt like I was intruding, stealing snippets of their lives by reading their private discussions – except they weren’t private conversations. It was all over the internet. Why would people want to do this? That was, until I discovered the foodies and my whole world opened up – and now, you can’t keep me quiet.

I will say Twitter and the Foodie world which lies within has been a revelation for me for me personally. You could say this is one of those few light bulb moments in my life time.  Suddenly, I had access to other people who like me, enjoyed food. They enjoyed really good food too. I started following tweeples avidly, reading about restaurants new and old, supperclubs and peoples experiences – and there were pictures too - stunning photos of menus, tables and food. I had discovered this hidden world. I wanted to try these restaurants. I wanted memorable foodie experiences the others were talking about – and again I felt left out, being a one and not a two.

It was at this moment that TheSingleEater was born. I was and am going to eat these meals and experience these restaurants and supperclubs with or without my friends.

Welcome to my new world people.