No. I have done it over the years. Not often. But l have done it.

Thanks for that reassurance.

I am aware that I am still going to have to be careful of boundaries, although we are getting on so well and I am looking forward to meeting up for coffee and dog walks, I do think that I need to make it plain that if anything else goes on, it's paid.

Not sure what to do, I know that I shouldn't monetise my entire existence!

It did occur to me that I might just ask him to pay a bill or two.

.......see already, it's confusing me!

I'm always suspicious when clients try to get too friendly! I had one who bragged that he'd gone to the cinema and had coffee multiple times with an escort just as friends ( I declined his similar offers). Then he started being awkward, cancelling last minute, wanted leeway as we were "friends". Blocked!
I sound cynical I know, but good luck 

You're dead right and that's why I avoid it at all costs.

The way that contact has been established from the outset, for me, leaves the dynamics a bit skewed.

This is the one and only time though that I have let someone through the net.

He is so normal, sensitive, enjoys the "alternative" lifestyle and has lovely Irish humour.

I dunno, maybe I will have to post here if I come to regret this decision and it becomes a learning experience!!

Yes, I agree. Once they are friends they can't be clients. Otherwise you get those awful murky boundaries which don't work and it causes resentment on both sides.