Byline: HELEN LEGH
MEN are so adorable when they try to be girlie.
If any man reading this is single and looking, you can learn from this.
Women love a man who tries to take an interest in the things that interest us.
My co-presenter Terry is a man's man, in his early 40s, with a build Geoff Capes would have been envious of in the 1980s, shaved head and a deep, gruff voice.
He's the sort of man you might describe as a "diamond geezer".
He is not the sort of man you might think was in touch with his feminine side.
That's why when I walked past him to get to my desk, he said something that almost gave me a seizure: "Ooh is that a new handbag?"
Dimmable LED Bulb GB-G60-8W I did a double take, felt my own forehead to check I didn't have a temperature and said: "Why yes, it is."
"Ooh let's have a look," said Matt, our IT bloke (mid 20s, Welsh, likes rock music).
I lifted my lovely red Chinese print handbag up for them to see, shocked at the two least likely men in my office to respond to a fine piece of sequinned embroidery.
"Yes, that's very nice," said Terry. Matt nodded in agreement.
I waited, expecting the barrage of sarcasm and mickey-taking to follow, but nothing.
I pinched myself to check I was actually in the land of the living, where real men wouldn't notice if you'd had a head transplant, let alone a new accessory.
Let's LED Flexible Strip Crystal Series: Crystal 3528 face it, we expect to have to do the old "notice anything different about me darling?" routine with our partners, let alone our work colleagues.
I think I speak for most women when I say that actually, we just want to be noticed by men and can sometimes go out of our way to do so.
I have a friend who tried for weeks to get a man to notice her at the gym.
It was only when she was flicking her hair back quite violently on the treadmill in an attempt to be sexy that she did actually get his attention, mind you.
embroidered patches And that was because she'd fallen off.
Project Handbag has made me see the men in my office in a different light, however; they are capable of taking an interest in the things that matter to me after all - handbags, new tops, sequinned hair slides, all the important things.
It is very endearing.
Maybe the next time I get a new lipstick or moisturiser, I'll show it to them first and get their opinion on it. They could make themselves the most popular men in the office.
The end of my little fantasy, however, was when I asked Terry what it was that had drawn his eye to noticing I had a new bag.
"It reminded me of those calendars you get in the Chinese takeaway and made me think how much I wanted some egg fried rice," he said.
Typical. Still, we can't expect miracles to happen overnight.
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