I remember it well. It was a Thursday, I had just finished teaching a class and was heading up towards High Street where it meets Duke Street in Glasgow. I had arranged to meet Allan there at 4.30 pm. Obviously, being a january day, it was cold and wet. As I approached our agreed meeting point, I could see him. My heart started thumping - this was the man I'd had umpteen converstaions with on the phone; we had so much in common, I felt that we'd known each other all our lives! But what would we have left to talk about on our first date I wondered? Then we met, we smiled and I gave him a big hug, yup right there in the street.