Happy Valentine's Day!

Meantime, all those who wish to celebrate today, go ahead. And I hope you have a very happy day and I'm off now to cook DH his favourite (and usually forbidden) breakfast.

Then start a thread of your own on the subject.

One can express one's love for a person any day and every day. People who really love each other do.

I'm allowed to feel sour about commercialism and I'm allowed to express that sourness.

We have the DGC staying over tonight so DD and her partner can share a romantic meal. He's cooking mussels in white wine and garlic, lucky her.
We've never bought presents for Valentines but we do still buy each other cards.
I remember aged about 13 running down the road in the dark and posting a card through a rather dishy 19-20 year olds letter box, my friend dared me !!

Let's not turn a thread on Vanetime's day sour, this early on. We all know about commercialisation, so let's take what happiness we can from it for our own loved ones please.

Some of us may not have them with us very much longer.

Nothing wrong with celebrating love, anya. But the public manifestation of it is commercial crappiness and nothing more. If you like it, enjoy it. I'm sick to the back teeth already of red hearts everybloodywhere. This amused me though.

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.

—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5

It's been going for centuries. What's wrong with celebrating love? Or in Ruby's case her happiness for another reason.

Where the heart emoticon GNHQ?

janeainsworth couldn't have put it better myself!

I don't "get" Valentine's Day. I'm not quite ignoring it as I'm posting on this thread, but that's all the acknowledgement it'll get from me other than a few sighs and groans and wishes that all the hype and crap about it would hurry up and be over. Why is everything so IN YOUR FACE these days?

Well I'm not single rubylady but there has been a joint executive decision at Ainsworth Towers that it's a ridiculous, over-commercialised, hyped-up nonsense which we are happy to ignore!

DGCs coming this evening for
I don't get down, love living alone, but am sick of all the hype on TV and radio.
To all who are celebrating, have a great day!

I'm having a sleepover with my 3 year old dgd! I'm very happy!

p.s. I am never down on Valentine's. I am just glad I am not sharing it with the ex husband any more.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm glad I'm on GN,
And sharing my day with you.