About Markmancunian

Markmancunian is widowed and is seeking females for a serious relationship.

I am a retired electronic engineer. I was widowed over three years ago and now feel the need for female companionship.

What am I looking for on this website? A lady who is looking for friendship and ultimately a serious relationship. By this I mean meeting to do activities that we both enjoy and if we find each other attractive eventually going away together for short breaks or longer holidays, in the UK and possibly abroad. I am not looking to remarry nor live together, as I imagine at our age we will both have our own house or other dwelling. Nor am I looking for casual relationships. There are other websites for those.

I would describe myself as honest, loyal, reliable, kind, friendly, loving, with a quirky sense of humour. I would like to meet a lady with similar qualities. Personality is far more important than age or looks. I don't mind meeting ladies who are older than me as long as they are honest about it, but I have met three who claimed to be the same age as me or slightly older but later admitted they were six years older.

I enjoy a number of leisure activities including DIY, singing a wide variety of music from Mozart to 60s popular music, playing the ukulele, going for walks in the country, collecting antique cameras, microscopes and other optical instruments, going to concerts, theatres, visiting historic places and museums, watching classic films, dining out, cooking for my friends (I am a reasonably good cook), going away for weekend breaks and longer holidays staying at good hotels.

I have a voracious appetite for reading and enjoy crime novels by authors such as David Baldacci, Steven Connolly, Peter May, Val McDermid, Kathy Reichs, horror stories by Stephen King, Dean Koontz, also aviation and naval history.

I enjoy playing table tennis, playing darts (in pubs if possible) and ten-pin bowling. I'm an active person, not a couch potato and have no interest in passively watching sport, either live or on TV.

I have two grown-up children, a daughter who lives in Cambridge who has two grown-up sons and a son who lives in Manchester and has two younger daughters.

I don't actively practise any religion, so I guess you would call me agnostic, but as the scientist J. B. S. Haldane said, "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. So who knows?