Simon and Edna Martin are as happy as ever and have just renewed their vows (Picture: SWNS)

A husband and wife say they’re as happy as ever despite funny looks they receive because of their 40-year age gap.

Edna Martin, 83, says she still enjoys a happy sex life with toyboy Simon, 44, who she spends the evenings cuddling on the sofa ‘like a couple of kids’.

The couple got married some 14 years ago when she instantly fell in love with his impressive organ skills. Cynics said the great grandmother was looking for a naive toyboy, but they are as happy as ever.

She said: ‘We are still intimate in the bedroom as much as any couple in love.




‘We’ll often stop in the street and have a damn good kiss – I’ve never felt conscious of the age gap in public.

‘I kiss Simon’s neck and pinch his bum in the supermarket – he will twang the back of my bra in the queue. We just do what two people in love do.’

Edna said that she fell in love with Simon’s impressive organ skills (Picture: SWNS)

They still enjoy a happy sex life, Edna revealed (Picture: SWNS)

They have now renewed their wedding vows at their home in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, in 2015 and have developed the pet names ‘Piglet’ and ‘Piglette’ in recent years.

Simon, an organist, is regarded a musical genius in local circles. He continues to charm Edna playing her favourite song ‘Goodnight, Sweetheart’ on the organ.

He regularly toured the country before type two diabetes and a kidney transplant forced him into retirement.

Simon, who suffers with dyslexia, dyspraxia and Asperger’s syndrome, only has to listen to a tune once before he can play it off the top of his head.

Edna, a grandmother-of-four, added: ‘We love each other more than before – the love has grown over the years, it’s absolutely wonderful.

‘Simon has had his health problems and I’m getting older now, but do you know anyone who is getting younger?

They get funny looks in the street, but that doesn’t stop them from showing their love (Picture: SWNS)

In the supermarket, she pinches his bum and he twangs her bra in signs of affection (Picture: SWNS)

‘Simon had a kidney transplant four years ago and has been diagnosed with type two diabetes so I have to feed him right.

‘I have a push along walking thing as I struggle with my mobility but as one gets older these things happen.

‘We support and love each other – life couldn’t be better. Our love gets bigger and bigger all the time.’

Edna, a retired engineer who later became secretary for a local theatre organ club, met Simon in 2003.

Simon, who had never had a girlfriend before, said it was love at first sight.

The pair bumped into each other at a concert as Edna welcomed Simon in through the venue’s back door.

The couple have proved their doubters wrong by staying together for 14 years (Picture: SWNS)

Edna said that when they first got together people thought she was taking advantage of a naive toyboy (Picture: SWNS)

Simon, who at just over 5ft tall is shorter than Edna, said: ‘It was a concert at the Odeon in Weston which had started by the time I’d arrived so I went around to the emergency exit.

‘Ed opened the door and it was love at first sight. She was standing there in a nice, black suit and she opened her arms. We literally fell into each other’s arms.



‘I thought to myself “She’s a bit of alright”.’

The pair exchanged letters and phone calls in the following months and would fleetingly see one another at organ concerts around the UK.

But their romance was confirmed when they passionately kissed beneath Weston-super-Mare pier after a concert.

Edna, who attended grammar school and worked as a civil engineer until retiring in her 60s, has children from a previous 37-year marriage.

Simon with his organ (Picture: SWNS)

Her children – Lorraine, 59, and Russell, 57 – have always been supportive of their relationship.

Russell, who shares a love of computers with Simon, even sends him cards on Father’s Day and ‘pulls his leg’ by calling him dad.

Recalling how they met, Edna said: ‘We both share a passion for organ music and moved around in similar circles.

‘I kept hearing about this ‘funny little man’ named Simon Martin and I thought our paths will have to cross at some point.

‘Eventually we were introduced by a friend and after a polite chat I kissed him on the cheek.

‘Then he embraced me and I said to our mutual friend ‘He likes hugs, doesn’t he?’

‘I thought at that moment ‘I don’t want to let him go?’

‘Before we were together he would talk to me for five hours at night over the phone and when he came to stay he would play Goodnight, Sweetheart on the electronic organ every single night. I cried every time.’

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