So who is expecting a Valentines card ?

[Lullabelle]

We buy each other a card every year

 

[Deleted member 1258]

My Good Lady and me have been together for over 38 years and married for 34 of those years, we have exchanged valentine cards every year we've been together.

 

[ColinJ]

I will be giving and receiving the traditional number of cards.

(I got an anonymous card once in my teens and was intrigued. I spent 2 days trying to find out who it was from before my older sister finally told me that our younger sister had sent it to me for a joke!)

One year I made the mistake of not giving Mrs Stephec one, It's not worth it to ever do it again.

You only got away with that post because Fnaar is on a break!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Oh sh*t! Best nip back out...

£4 for a bloody card??!!

I bought 2 x tubs of ice-cream instead.

 

[stephec]

£4 for a bloody card??!!

I bought 2 x tubs of ice-cream instead.

Is 9 1/2 Weeks your favourite film?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

£4 for a bloody card??!!

That's what you get when you leave yourself open only to the petrol station option

 

[Haitch]

I have relented and got some daffodils for MrsP on Saturday though.

There are times when the swear filter spares our bushes.

Edit: blushes

 

[robjh]

Not me....Mrs R and I have been married 30 years but have never done valentine's cards.

Same here (though only 28 years for Mrs rjh and me). We didn't get where we are today by sending each other Valentine's cards.

If I do get a card, she'll want to know why

 

[stephec]

There are times when the swear filter spares our bushes.

Edit: blushes

Slip of the tongue?

 

[snorri]

Same here, let's rectify this, send each other one Electronic only, better for the environment

Best offer I've had since 1970.....ah I remember it well.

 

[derrick]

I'll get one.

 

[Trickedem]

we have a couple of valentine's cards from when we were first married. We reuse them. Saves money, but still romantic....ish

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

That's what you get when you leave yourself open only to the petrol station option

There was quite a queue...

 

[Haitch]

I was sent this today, but not from anyone I know.


Heart to Heart
By Rita Dove

It’s neither red
nor sweet.
It doesn’t melt
or turn over,
break or harden,
so it can’t feel
pain,
yearning,
regret.

It doesn’t have
a tip to spin on,
it isn’t even
shapely—
just a thick clutch
of muscle,
lopsided,
mute. Still,
I feel it inside
its cage sounding
a dull tattoo:
I want, I want—

but I can’t open it:
there’s no key.
I can’t wear it
on my sleeve,
or tell you from
the bottom of it
how I feel. Here,
it’s all yours, now—
but you’ll have
to take me,
too.

 

[TVC]

Just the normal sack full for me this morning.