Speed dating

Speed dating

They met on the web last August and within two weeks John was proposing as his new sweetheart, a former rally driver, was driving him down the M4 motorway. They married in Oxfordshire in March and simply could not be happier. ‘I’m her toy boy,’ said John, a retired Jersey bank manager. ‘She’s 20 days older than me!’ Born in Flixton, Manchester, Anne has a wide range of interests and achievements. She was an international rally driver from 1967 to 1980 and commentator for ‘motor matters’ on BBC Radio Oxford. She is a Freemason and classical organist and worked for Aere Harwell for 15 years as a nuclear reactor physicist. As a girl, she was trained in goldwire embroidery and has done work for the Queen and the Sultan of Oman. ‘I’m still trying to catch up,’ said John of his wife’s abundance of skills. John and Anne, both widowed, met through www.match.com. ‘I was terribly truthful in my profile,’ Anne explained. ‘I didn’t want to meet idiots!’ It was her involvement with the Freemasons that caught John’s eye. ‘I spotted that straight away,’ said John, ‘so I sent her an e-mail telling her that I was in the Freemasons too. Otherwise her profile would have frightened anyone off!’

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