Are you a Valentine’s Day person?
I really want to embrace it, but despite being in a relationship with the same person for the whole of my adult life, I find it a bit of a struggle.
When I was at school, about five of us used to get together for Chinese food and one of those massive chocolate chip cookies you can get from kiosks in shopping centres.
Then I went to uni, met the Lovely Young Man and did Valentine’s Day student style – which was to say that we’d buy a bottle of wine that cost (slightly) more than £3, cook something that didn’t involve pasta and try not to talk about what deadlines we had coming up.
Now of course, instead of not going out because we’re skint, we don’t go out because we’ve got a Dragon. I suspect that we might revert to Chinese food and giant cookie this year (which sounds better and better the more I write about it. Look, here’s a recipe, we can do a bake-along).
Perhaps you’ve got the handle on this romantic thing, or maybe you’re a little bit at sea and want some ideas that don’t involve cheap lace or petrol station flowers…
All the pieces shown above are ready to go!
Or if you want to commission something special, why not something like this?
Your last date to commission a piece for your beloved is 27th January – this Monday!
Click on the photos to be whisked off to great adventures (or more information).