Hansom Looking for love

摘要

I don't know why, but the new compilation of the London Review of Books' personal ads landed on my desk this week. The book, entitled They Call Me Naughty Lola, contains a catalogue of weird and lurid messages from the lovelorn - some of which I'm sure readers of Building can help with. Take, for example, this plea from a "bored roofing materials manufacturer: "In desperation, I turn to you, single ladies up to 50, with more than a passing interest in guttering, fascias and polyvinyl sheet-edging ..." Any takers?