Hello. I’m Mark, 61, a George Clooney lookalike (yeah, I know, they’re bad pictures) from Beverley, Yorkshire.
ABOUT ME: Quirky, authentic; half-Vulcan (so cannot lie); wordsmith, storyteller; emotionally intelligent and open; a good listener (as you’d expect from someone who has studied counselling to degree level and been a award-winning proper journalist in the now defunct Truth Industry); absurdist (as in Vic Reeves and Paul Merton); very outgoing, but like quiet times too; very creative (I designed the Sparks T-shirt in these pictures) very calm and unflustered; spiritual vitality and a state of aliveness … this doesn’t extend to running six ultra-marathons before noon (I wouldn’t climb over a full English breakfast to go to a gym).
BUILD: An extra few … stones. But I haven’t had a day off work sick since 1995, touch wood, and have a fully uncompromised immune system
LIKES: comedy, cricket, cooking cats (whoops! There should be a comma in there …) cooking, cats, cuddling, classic sci-fi (Jon Pertwee WAS the best Doctor Who and am happy to debate this point all night with anyone who thinks otherwise!), country drives, cake, creativity, crazy golf, as well as some things not beginning with ‘C’ – old films, Scrabble, Sparks, words, writing and reading books, a glass of something happy, holding hands and pub quizzes.
WHO I’M LOOKING FOR: You will hopefully have more than one brain cell to rub together; be quirky, fun and funny, emotionally intelligent and open. Trust is a big turn-on for me. But this takes time … on both sides. Trust, together with honesty, communication, laughter and connection are the cornerstones of making any relationship work. So I’d hope you’d have these in abundance. I’m essentially looking for someone who will laugh at/with my tomfoolery. I can’t begin to tell you how good for your health laughing is, especially just before you go to sleep; You also don’t take yourself TOO seriously; prefer cats to dogs and have a love of British countryside/holidays, especially in the more mellow autumn when these islands show themselves off in their most flattering colours.
You’ll hopefully be someone who is not superglued to their devices 24/7 and has an unhived mind. And you’ll prefer someone tactile, gentle, funny, clever and affectionate who knows how to pamper and massage (within an equal, both-people-giving relationship, of course!) rather than yer average Ape Man. Someone with whom to watch the new series of Ludwig would be a bonus.
Yes, I know this is long.
But if you’re still here then hopefully you’ll have patience, a love of words, you have a (nice) weird sense of humour, you’ve been slightly amused by what you’ve read, and maybe might even be a bit intrigued. So hopefully we’ve already got some connection.
Now over to you …
PS: All photos taken today, apart from the Monty Python one (taken last year).
