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Mark

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm married, and live happily near London with my wife Celia and two young daughters.

My Interests

Aikido, Mountain Biking, Running, History, Engineering and Technology, Theatre, Film, The Great Outdoors

I'd like to meet:

Mountain bikers and runners local to Watford, anyone into music, and any proud technology geeks out there who also have some social skills and wider interests! Oh, and anyone else with anything interesting to say, about more or less anything. "Specialisation is for insects..."

Music:

Metal and Hard Rock, going back to Black Sabbath, the granddaddys of them all, AC/DC, Rush, Marillion, then on to Marilyn Manson, System of a Down and Velvet Revolver.

Movies:

Blade Runner, The Thin Red Line, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, Troy, The Perfect Storm, Three Kings, O Brother Where Art Thou, and many others...

Television:

Little Britain, Have I Got News For You, Dr Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Band of Brothers,...

Books:

2000AD; Judge Dredd Megazine; The Gates of Fire; A Green History of the World; Guns, Germs and Steel; Collapse; The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee; Storm of Steel; Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian Cycle ("The Winter King",...), Rubicon, The Origin of Conciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Starship Troopers, Time Enough For Love, Birdsong, Song of Troy,...

Heroes:

Steve Biko, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandi, Albert Einstein, Bono, Greenpeace, Oscar Schindler, Rachel Corrie, Bob Geldorf...