For the past seven years that I have been single I’ve had a love-hate relationship with traditional internet dating sites. Disappointing photo to flesh transition, baggage, sex pests, bores and hidden agendas . . . any man I met online was hardly the type I’d like to have a cup of tea with, let alone spend the rest of my life with. I decided my internet dating days were over for good when eHarmony matched me with a 20 stone reclusive IT consultant from Barnet.
None of this was helped by the fact that I am a 42-year-old mother with a small child — which is not exactly conducive to bar trawling. After I split up with my boyfriend (he was not capable of being