By day Brownlow Adderley is a mild-mannered electrician; in his spare time he is the Love Doctor.

For a fee he will go to your girl’s home and sing or recite love poetry with lines like ‘you’re so fine you put a hairline fracture right through my mind’.

Another Love Doctor gem: “When I pursued you, I was persistent, since that time, you have become the essence of my very existence”.

He does this for birthdays, anniversaries and Valentine’s Day.

In the seven years carrying out this service, he has learnt that women love attention from their men, even by proxy.

None of his targets have ever sent him away or closed the door on him. Any negative reactions usually come from the envious women watching.

“When I come to someone’s workplace you can see the excitement from the women, and then the disappointment when they realise I am not there for them,” he said.

Some of the onlooker’s comments are sad. “They say ‘my husband never does anything like this’, or ‘I should have gotten rid of him five years ago’,” Mr Adderley said.

He has even seen some disappointed women cry. If he knows who their husband or boyfriend is, he will call them and try to get them to hire him.

Sometimes women slip their honey’s business card into his pocket.

He does not tell the guy how he got their name and number.

“I don’t think I have saved marriages, but hopefully, I have inspired men to pay more attention to their marriages,” he said. “That will always be my goal. It is not just for the money. If she is happy, he is happy.”

Sometimes the Love Doctor has to work to convince guys that they need his help.

However, once they take his prescription, sixty to 70 per cent of them come back the next year for another dose.

His interest in love poetry was inspired, years ago, by an attractive lady walking by.

“The words just came to me,” he said. “I can’t remember the lyrics exactly but it was something like: ‘As she walked down the hill with all her beauty and grace, I stopped and stood still. Oh my, what a majestic, incomparable face’.”

As soon as she was gone, he jumped off the wall and ran to get a piece of paper and a pen.

“I had to write that down,” he said.

Then he joined the Chewstick Foundation to perform some of his work at open mike nights.

Founder Gavin Smith gave him the nickname “Love Doctor”.

Mr Adderley loves dressing up for assignments. He wears a heart on his sleeve, and everywhere else.

“I have 30 different love outfits,” he said. “It is a secret where I get them from.”

He loves the stares.

“I was really shy when I was younger because of my upbringing, but I grew out of that when I got older,” he said. “My brand is greetings, so I have to greet people.”

Creativity runs in his family. His twin brother, Paul Adderley, also writes poetry.

“My niece is Bermuda Idol winner Larrita Adderley and my mother, Pearl Adderley was a rumba queen.”

His nephew suggested he create greeting cards. It seemed a little limiting, but a step forward.

A friend, former premier Ewart Brown, suggested he do up some cards for local businesses to hand out for feedback.

Mr Brown suggested he do 40 cards, but Mr Adderley did 249. He got back 111 responses, many of them encouraging and positive.

He sold the cards through his business Shannai Cards, for a little while, but found it was an expensive undertaking, since he was buying all of his materials on the island.

He now focuses more on a serenading business model.

He credits his experiences with Chewstick for being able to sing or recite in front of anyone, anywhere.

“Chewstick prepares you to perform,” he said.

He was once asked to sing to a woman in her bedroom.

“It was the couple’s anniversary, and the guy had approached me, wanting to do something different,” Mr Adderley said. “He was always looking for the next best thing.”

When he got to the couple’s home, the woman was already in bed.

“The guy let me in,” he remembered. “He knocked on her door and said, honey, are you decent? Then I came around the corner dressed in one of my outfits. She said, ‘oh, my!’”

He did his thing, but had to make a swift exit.

“It was getting hot in there pretty fast,” Mr Adderley laughed. “He called me the next day and gave me a $50 tip.”

Today he hopes to serenade 30 clients in Hamilton.

“I am also doing Valentine’s Day bags,” he said.

People can just pick up a bag if they don’t want the singing.

When he is done, he plans to take his wife Candy Adderley to dinner with another couple.

Most of his clients are men, asking him to perform for women. He wants to fix the gender imbalance by introducing Hubby Day on March 14.

“This is when women can show their men the same kind of attention,” he said. “It will be about showing them how much they are appreciated.”

However, he said there won’t be any singing involved. “It will be more manly,” he said.

• For more information, call 732-3047 or e-mail shannaicards@northrock.bm