No longer in fashion...

... The single girl is dead -

Well according to the Sunday times style anyway.

It appears as though it is no longer possible to be 'cool' and to be single.  According to the Times, the sexy singleton will be left in the nougties along with 'boho' (yes ladies of primrose hill, get a clue and put your shoes back on) and studs (well one can only hope).  2010 - 20 will be the decade of the 'we'.


I don't normally read the times, especially on a sunday, and after reading the article written by Shane Watson I now know why - because articles about anything other than next seasons 'it' shoe or interviews with Jamie Doran bum me out. Terribly.

This article's statement puts me in a real tizzle.  I am (as many of us) of the SATC generation.  The most important things to me for the last 5-6 years have been smoking, shoes, cocktails - well in my case beer - and men who only exist on the peripheral. Guys you date so you have someone to laugh about when you go for cocktails - or beer - with your single but dating friends. 

Smoking is now banned (apparently it's bad for your health,  SATC has ended-with all girls 'in a relationship' (I hear a rumour that in SATC 2 film Samantha gets married too!?) and the recession has put cocktails into the 'unnecessary expense' category which means like starbucks £3 coffees - no one is drinking them anymore.

You know what all of my friends are doing now? Buying vegetables with their other halfs. 

Vegetables, like really.

It happened slowly at first, but it has become clear I am the only single left in the village - the only one clinging to the SATC glory days when the single girl reigned. My housemate's birthday dinner 2 weeks ago, I was the only single in the room, (room/ village -I'm a londoner, there is not much difference in my understanding of villages and rooms of people - scale and size only make sense to me in reference to dress sizes and diamonds in jewelery. This is not the time to pull me up on such issues).

I want to fight this; every part of me wants to devise ways of getting my recently hooked up friends back in the 'right' side of a relationship. However I realise that there are certain things boy toys do for my friends that I would absolutely not, so I have decided that 2010 will be the year of the 'we' for me too (I decided the 2009 would be the year of the 'we' for me but then with only 2 days left I better roll it over to give myself a bit of time to meet the 'he' to complete my 'we'). 

This means in 2010 that I actually have to date normal men, no men with substance abuse problems (I do go on about this but seriously- it has been one of those years where every man I dated came complete with an addiction to a class A drug), no men who have hair longer than mine, no men named 'Wolf' and no men who ride motorbikes and do 'stuff' all day (although if Justin Bobby asks I'm sayin' yes).


Basically no men that I actually find attractive.

Great. I cannot wait.

Thanks Shane Watson. Thanks a lot.

MM x