Valentine Day

Today 18:04 ginny
I posted this on the other thread but thought it deserved to be here where more people seem to be posting. I would add it will be our 50 year anniversary in July.

DH and I don’t ‘do’ Valentine’s Day and never have. Mind you he has today spent 3 hours just hanging around whilst I was in an eye clinic. He got my bowl and utensils and porridge out ( as always) , at breakfast time. Told me to sit down after we got home and appeared with a cup of tea. He has just squeezed 5 lemons for pie filling because he knows I find it difficult and went back down to the local shops for a couple of items I forgot.
I reckon that’s enough without flowers and chocolates on one day as he does similar every day. Even on the days he drives me mad.

We celebrate in a very small way, with a small hand-made card that has been in use for 25 years plus! DH gave me a small box of chocolates. I gave the grandkids a small treat each.

Nothing over the top, but an acknowledgment of our love for one another, which sometimes may be taken for granted.

Well, to be honest it is a load of old commercial cobblers, as are all the main seasonal events!
However, it is as good a time as any to buy myself some flowers and a cake or some chocolate, and treat my cat to some ham.

Each to their own as the saying goes life is short enjoy it now while you can.

We do celebrate Valentines night and it's our 30th anniversary this year. We had sparkling wine and a delicious home cooked candlelit dinner totally enjoyable.

Later we watched the rugby we had recorded while we ate our dessert.

For no particular reason other than we are both early 70's (so who knows how many more we'll share), this year for Valentine's, we have been away on a wonderful break in North Wales. We had Bucks Fizz with our hotel breakfast then later had an Aftenoon Tea and back in our hotel room enjoyed a bottle of champagne (brought from home). During nearly 50 years of being together we have never before been as extravagant or in our own way, as romantic on February 14th. It will be a lovely memory for us to cherish. Beans on toast for the next few weeks

My Valentines Day was memorable for all the wrong reasons.
Suspect I’ve contracted norovirus from being in contact with a bunch of strangers who were passengers on a Nile cruise ship who were ill.. Our flight was delayed and we were all corralled in an airport transit lounge for several hours.
Details are certainly not needed but suffice to say it’s grim.

Wishing you well MissChateline 💐
Novovirus is a truly horrible thing.What a rotten end to your holiday.

Thank you