Oh dear. I know I've been absent from the journal for a while but we've had a bit of a whirlwind few weeks. My master seems to be trying to kep himself as occupied as he can and we've been all over the place. Also, he's not been talking to me very much lately, so it's been difficult for me to report.
I thought he was cured but for the last few days it has been obvious that he has not. He joined a couple of on-line dating sites and he was receiving chat up messages from amazingly gorgeous girls wanting to get to know him better, with a view to a relationship and even marriage. He said that they were all in their 20s and early 30s and it was a common scam, whereby fraudsters set up profiles on dating sites, posted pictures of beautiful women and lured vulnerable lonely mature people into believing the hype until they were eventually asked for money, eg on the pretext of wanting to fly over to visit. All very irritating. The only genuine enquirers seem pretty awful.
He is now like a bear with a sore head. The real object of his affections is back after staying with her family for Christmas. It has made him so much worse. He has been on the point several times of going up to her place of work and asking her out for dinner but then he thinks better of it and says it would scare her off. Well, I really don't know. Much easier just to sniff a bottom and see how it goes.
