Limehouse, no. 26 of 28
Tina, companion in Limehouse
Small, quick, and the only person in the room watching the tide.
- Age
- 26
- Works from
- Limehouse
- Height
- 158 cm
- Hair
- long espresso brown
- Eyes
- brown
- Figure
- athletic
- Languages
- English
- An hour opens at
- £250
Guests are 18+. She sets the limits of her own booking, and a fee covers her time and her company, nothing besides. The whole ladder is on the rates page.
About Tina
Espresso brown is the right name for it: Tina's hair is so dark it reads black indoors and shows its warmth only at a window, long and thick and usually pushed back off her face. Height 158 cm, athletic, compact and strong, and brown eyes that hold a conversation without blinking much. She dresses simply and a little sportily, a fitted knit, flat boots, a coat she can move in. She is the smallest person in most rooms and consistently the one everybody ends up listening to.
At 26 she is direct, curious and physically incapable of sitting still for three hours. She is brisk in English, funny in short bursts rather than long stories. She rows on the tideway on Saturday mornings and talks about the river as a working thing with moods rather than a view. She is practical to a fault, terrible at small talk and excellent at the real kind, and she will tell you within the first half hour if a plan is not going to work.
Limehouse is her stretch and the place is Booty's Riverside Bar on Narrow Street, a small bar in an old shopfront with a handful of tables, a window straight onto the water and absolutely no pretension in it. She will take the window, watch the tide run, and tell you which way it is going and how fast, because she actually knows. Afterwards there is the towpath down towards the basin, six minutes. Covent Garden is home, and she gets here on the DLR without complaint.
The Limehouse page covers the river end of E14. An hour is £250, longer formats are on rates, and booking has her open dates.
- Height 158 cm, athletic build
- Long espresso brown hair; eyes brown
- Age 26, English speaking
- Home district Covent Garden, evenings across E14
- Out of hours: rowing on the tideway, early mornings, the river in all weathers
Booking her evening
The window and the towpath sit naturally inside two hours at £500, with £700 across three if supper follows on Narrow Street. She is out of London for ten days, and Maude has the diary open from the day she is back.
Her figures are the desk figures, printed in full on the rates page, and the whole arrangement runs in one thread from the first line to the confirmation.
- 1 hour£250
- 90 minutes£400
- 2 hours£500
- 3 hours£700
- Dinner date£900
- Overnight£1,800
- WeekendPOA
Also on the desk
An evening with Tina
The bar is about the size of a front room and that is the entire appeal. Half a dozen tables, an old shopfront window with the Thames immediately behind it, and nobody in there trying to impress anybody. She takes the window and starts reading the water, which she does without meaning to: the direction, the speed, the barge coming up on the flood with the tug working hard against it. She is genuinely interesting on all of it and never lectures. Later there is the towpath towards Limehouse Basin, six minutes, boats knocking together in the dark and the DLR going over on its way into the Wharf. If supper is in the plan it is a two minute walk, and she will have decided where by then.
Tina, in her own words
When are you back in London?
Ten days. I am away rowing, which is either the finest or the most miserable holiday anyone has described to you, depending on your view of five in the morning.
Why this bar and not the Wharf?
Because the river is a metre away rather than a view, and because there are six tables. You cannot have a real conversation in a room built for two hundred.
Do you mind a quiet evening?
Not at all, as long as it is quiet on purpose. What I cannot do is sit still for three hours with nothing decided.
Where she sits
What guests have written
Nothing is written here for Tina yet, which is usually what discretion looks like in E14. A note appears only when a guest writes one, she agrees to it, and the desk has checked that it reads as a first name, a month and nothing private.