Velvet - Cuthbert is really coming good. Really glad he's been in contact without too much of a delay. He's getting better! Hoping you get to see him soon. Could you have a daytime coffee and cake date or something over the weekend just so you can see each other for an hour or so?
Mic oh dear, I'd just ignore him I think. There's no point engaging with people who are behaving like this as they won't take any notice of your point of view.
Lack of suitable matches - well, there wasn't a great choice here either, being a bit in the sticks and also looking at the 40+ age group. I just ended up messaging anyone who looked and sounded vaguely okay. None of them that I met up with were awful in a rude or offensive or red-flaggish way, and the worst experience I had was one bloke I met who was very, very boring. I think that most of them looked different from their photos, one was very much older than his picture (this is the boring bloke), another was a lot shorter than he had said, the others just looked different in real life actually talking to them and seeing how they moved, how expressive they were etc. I don't think LM is classically handsome, didn't think much of his photo one way or the other (he is going a bit bald and grey and wears glasses, looks a bit geeky I think but I quite like that look), but I like how he smiles, how he talks, there's just that something about him, which of course you can't tell from a photo and is a really personal thing anyway. Load of waffle there to say unless there's something really dire and dreadful about the picture or profile then I'd go and meet them and see how things are in real life.