Scott and Lucy met through Date on a Plate (Photo: courtesy)[Missing Credit]The Covid pandemic proved no barrier to Denise’s determination to matchmake. “You need to spread your wings a bit further to meet someone different,” she adds, with the online sessions removing the geographical boundaries, which can make meeting people from other areas challenging. Max, a lawyer from London, met his partner, Emma *, who is based in Manchester, at an online speed-dating session. Lauren Shenker, from London, where she is the deputy manager of a nursery, similarly found that geography proved no barrier in Denise’s online sessions, meeting her husband Laurence, who lived in the Midlands, from her home in Borehamwood. She remembers “realising very quickly afterwards that my husband was the one”, and the couple welcomed “a beautiful baby girl” four months ago.