I am a journalist/press officer who has worked for Halton Borough Council since January.

I who got a double lung transplant on my birthday in 2005 ....which got lots of national TV, radio and media coverage.....

I spent three years travelling through Australia, Asia and the Far East and fell ill in Korea while teaching English from a nasty pneumonia... I was looked after by nuns!

However...The doctors damanged my trachea from ventilating me too long...

I have Cystic Fibrosis and the subsequent operations left my lungs dangerously weak.

But I was was doing 30 minutes on the exercise bikes and was ready to take on the world.

But then I started to get chronic rejection and it doesn't look as if there is any way back..

I lived in Widnes since January absorbing myself in music, constantly. I have a thing about potatoes and used to like people who keep rats. Dolphins make me sad, but I don't know why!

His website http://transplantwait.blogspot.com has had more than 19,000 hits.

Some unusual facts about Mark.

He went travelling across America with Natalie Imbruglia's sister.

He lived with a Lisu tribe in Thailand for a few weeks in 2000.

He used to be Robbie Williams' neighbour.

He went to live in Holland for a year when he was in 20 - but doesn't remember much about it!

He had his belongings including passport and camera confiscated while in Burma.

He was interviewed on CNN during Hurricane Emily - while camping near Virginia Beach and has been on breakfast TV in Korea.

He appeared on Central News dressed as a miner and on BBC Midlands Today as Tina Turner (as part of the Big Brother' event.) He can read Korean, but can't always understand it!

He was attached to an oxygen machine for more than two years.

His mother has an ancient Scottish title (although she is English) He set up a student magazine in Sheffield called Machine'.

He was born within walking distance of Dr Johnson (who wrote the first English Dictionary (although a long time afterwards!) He was on the cover of a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' single.

He met Pink' queuing for a drink in Prague and gave her some sweets!

He was a drinking buddy of Toadfish' from Neighbours, when he lived in Melbourne and met most of the cast at the time.

He plays the piano and bass guitar (but not very well!)