the annual over-priced, over themed, over booked day of love has passed.

Yes i am an old cynic about it and i do subscribe to the view that the anti-valentines folk evangelise. In that you don’t need to have one specific day a year to tell your other half that you love them. But it is nice to have a little bit of gift giving on the horizon in the bleak, grey winter days. My daughter got a valentines card from a young admirer at school, she is EIGHT! Nevertheless she was dizzy with excitement of it all and had marvelled all day at who it could have been and it sort of made me realise that those days when you awaited valentines from an unknown admirer have long passed (which is a REALLY good thing). But remember those? I had forgotten that whole aspect of valentines.

Apparently in America it is a HUGE event and the idea of an anonymous card would have the receiver thinking that the sender had merely been absent minded and not signed it. How different things can be.

This year we went for TEA and CAKE..Our theme and i think it was a pretty good one…and ever so slightly middle-aged!