July 6, 2021
July 6, 2021
I lived with Mark from 2000 to 2002. We were students together at Leeds Uni and we lived in a flat in Kensington Terrace, which was a seven bed student house in Hyde Park.
Mark had just returned from his year in Spain. He really enjoyed his year in Spain and he came back very passionate about Spanish culture and the language.
One of the nice things I remember was that when we were at University, we spent a lot of time hanging out together because we lived together for two years. It was actually at the time when Big Brother started, or certainly near the beginning of Big Brother, and we used to LOVE Big Brother. We watched it all the time together and one of the years they started streaming Big Brother. So you’d have the episodes, but then you'd have a constant stream from the Big Brother House, 24 hours a day. And we used to love it so much that we just had it on the telly in the corner the whole time. So we'd sit and spend our evening hanging out with the TV on in the background. We'd kind of be hanging out with the Big Brother people - we'd be watching them sitting playing cards in the evening while we were playing cards in the evening and we thought it was brilliant. We absolutely loved it.
When I think about Mark and tried to describe him, I would say that he was, he was a quiet guy but he had a really dry sense of humour, so he might not say anything for a while, but then when he would, it would crack the room up. He enjoyed a bit of gambling, so we did enjoy going to the casino when we were. When we were students and living together and he had a kind of famous phrase that every time that someone would say should we ‘should we go out tonight to the casino?’ Mark would just give a look and say ‘I'll get my shoes’. He had his special casino shoes.
He was he was a really good friend, and he was really good fun to be around. We actually we didn't study the same things, we didn't have the same group of friends outside the flat and our interests weren’t obviously the same, but we were really good friends and that's exactly because Mark was so easy to get on with. He was so kind, so funny and just an all around great guy.
Mark had just returned from his year in Spain. He really enjoyed his year in Spain and he came back very passionate about Spanish culture and the language.
One of the nice things I remember was that when we were at University, we spent a lot of time hanging out together because we lived together for two years. It was actually at the time when Big Brother started, or certainly near the beginning of Big Brother, and we used to LOVE Big Brother. We watched it all the time together and one of the years they started streaming Big Brother. So you’d have the episodes, but then you'd have a constant stream from the Big Brother House, 24 hours a day. And we used to love it so much that we just had it on the telly in the corner the whole time. So we'd sit and spend our evening hanging out with the TV on in the background. We'd kind of be hanging out with the Big Brother people - we'd be watching them sitting playing cards in the evening while we were playing cards in the evening and we thought it was brilliant. We absolutely loved it.
When I think about Mark and tried to describe him, I would say that he was, he was a quiet guy but he had a really dry sense of humour, so he might not say anything for a while, but then when he would, it would crack the room up. He enjoyed a bit of gambling, so we did enjoy going to the casino when we were. When we were students and living together and he had a kind of famous phrase that every time that someone would say should we ‘should we go out tonight to the casino?’ Mark would just give a look and say ‘I'll get my shoes’. He had his special casino shoes.
He was he was a really good friend, and he was really good fun to be around. We actually we didn't study the same things, we didn't have the same group of friends outside the flat and our interests weren’t obviously the same, but we were really good friends and that's exactly because Mark was so easy to get on with. He was so kind, so funny and just an all around great guy.