A few weeks ago my lovely friend Charlotte signed me up for My Single Friend. Unfortunately it seems that I’m just as shy about talking to new people online as I am off. Today my not so lovely, but still loveable, friend Dan has been haranguing and embarassing me into sending some messages out. How do you sound interesting and not creepy by email?

Time to try something new.

mysinglefriend.com is the old idea of friends matchmaking for each other taken onto the internet. And for the rest of March they’re offering a month’s free membership to listeners of XFM. Go on, somebody volunteer to write a glowing reference for me and I’ll join. At the very least I’ll buy you a drink and will have tales to tell. And who knows……