My Ideal Person:
The friend - woman - I'm looking for is, first of all, the one for the rest of my life. I have just turned 65 and have some health issues and that sets the time horizon. I am capable, however, of giving the most genuine and complete love to her and I want, therefore, a woman who really feels like and is able to reciprocate - I hasten to emphasise the "feelings". I thus want my woman to be "spontaneous" - not one who rations out her love depending on what she gets as a quid pro quo. She must be liberally-educated, vivacious, stimulating, occasionally naughty and deflating, not shy of intellectual sparring and arguments but essentially sweet, understanding, forgiving and fond of (i) cooking (well!) for two - at least, (ii) doing the little, unusual things together - including sitting next to each other in complete silence, (iii) reading books and discussing them (with me or in company) in a spirit of common discovery, (iv) MUSIC and dance, of any variety barring the utterly noisy, (v) occasional smuty jokes and those e-mail forwards and text messages and (vi) making love with a man who may be inadequate and an MCP - maybe.