I showed him a newsboy shouting the
midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past, and before he reached the bottom
of the stairs I had got into him an unalterable conviction that, whatever odd ideas might come into a man's head when he was shut up alone in his books, a healthy dose
of «real life» (by which he meant the bus and the newsboy) was enough to show him that all «that
sort of thing» just couldn't be true.
Veteran cyber dater Brett Harding is the Islington - based dating website owner, who started using
midday dates as a time - efficient way
of sorting out the wheat from the chaff in the dating world.