A HUSBAND and wife with a 40-YEAR age gap say their love has continued to blossom and they still enjoy a happy sex life - despite her being aged 83.

Edna Martin and her husband Simon, 44, spend their evenings cuddling on the sofa “like a couple of kids” and are unfazed by public displays of affection.

The couple, who are madly in love 14 years after marrying, say their intimacy is as strong as ever despite Edna’s age.

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."

The couple made national headlines in 2005 as their love became public - with cynics suggesting Edna, now a great-grandmother-of-one, was looking for a naive toyboy.

But they have more than proved the doubters wrong.

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

Simon, an excellent 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, can listen to a tune once before he could 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?

“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.

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.

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.”