Lifestyle Valentine’s
6 EMILY Age: 26 Work: Lawyer
Where do you live: Edinburgh
Hobbies: Any sport I can fit in (including horse riding, touch
rugby, netball and training for Tough Mudder), helping out a local charity, baking, cooking for friends, exploring castles. I’m a massive fan of historical buildings. Describe yourself in 5 words: Cheerful, adventurous, loyal, independent and reliable. Guilty pleasure: Amaretto. British detective dramas. Preferably together. Pet peeve: Rudeness or bad manners; it’s so easy to be polite. Animal lover? Yes, dogs, or more particularly, Spaniels. What’s your idea of a great night out? A gang of friends, a spot of questionable dancing and finishing round the piano in Fingers bar. What’s your idea of a great night in?
Good company, good food, a bottle of red, and Cranium. Sum up your perfect date: Ideally, something adventurous like rock climbing, or a visit to a castle, maybe that we
had to rock climb up some cliffs to get to, followed by a picnic on the beach. Realistically, I wouldn’t say no to a coffee, provided there was carrot cake involved. My perfect person would be intelligent, non-smoking, meat-eating, sporty and/or outdoorsy, chivalrous, easy-going, and able to laugh in most situations. Not much to ask for then . . .
7 DAVID Age: 25 Work: Barman / librarian / editorial assistant Where do you live? West End, Glasgow Hobbies: I’m real big on literature and writing. Right now I've been reading Sergei Dovlatov and BS Johnson and I’m a raging fan of David Foster Wallace and Vladimir Nabokov. I’m really into stand-up comedy (I used to stand-up, but haven’t in about nine months due to University). I’m really into politics and debating. I also play guitar and keyboard. Once or twice a week (totally
depending on the weather), I play tennis. Describe yourself in 5 words: Up front, irreverent,
honest and wired.
Guilty pleasure: Bondage. Pet peeve: Riding the bus can totally ruin my day. Animal lover? Absolutely, I’m a veggie and my favourite animal is probably the Pug dog because they are nature’s little ugly asthma cases. What’s your idea of a great night out?: One that isn’t planned out and just develops out of its own inertia. Like having a nice dinner that turns into a
few drinks that turns into leaving a club at half two convinced that you're still having an early night because you didn’t have to wait an hour for a taxi. Those are the
best nights out. What’s your idea of a great night
in? I think I speak for everyone when I say there’s no greater night in than eating Nachos, drinking a beer and sitting on Twitter and Tumblr. Sum up your perfect date: I’d just like to point out that this isn't necessarily a first date or anything but we'd have dinner at Café Andaluz and then we'd go to a Demetri Martin show and we'd sit in the front row and he involves us in the show or a joke somehow and afterwards we'll have a few drinks and then go home and put on Death From Above 1979 and have sex and then we’ll just lay about in bed talking and maybe watch half of Man on the Moon or Robocop and then either nod off or have lazy, slow follow-up sex and then sleep. Breakfast will be huevos rancheros, coffee and lively debate on the scum that
phone in to Radio 5 Live in the morning.
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