<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/online-dating.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4409" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/online-dating-200x143.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="143" /></a>After 18 months Mary and I have agreed to end our relationship. We remain good friends and hopefully always will be. It is such a terrible shame because we get on so well however our differences are such that we couldn't live together and we would drive each other crazy after a while. It was better to bring it to end before it disintegrated and became sour.

So I'm back on the market. The prospect of dating again is not one I look forward to however it is very unlikely I will find my soulmate walking the aisles of my local Tesco, unless of course I've got a thing for women in muddy riding boots and jodhpurs.

This time I'm going to use the Match.com website instead of Guardian Soulmates.