Case for the Defence

When I got into work yesterday the chap who has taken a shine to me greeted me with a “Good morning my little petal”. I replied with a more simple “morning”. A few minutes later he wandered over to show something (work related) he had written years ago and I sat there and flicked through it and made suitably enthusiastic comments. I still don’t know quite what to think about all of this, but I’m reasonably sure that he is just a friendly chap.

I went over to a friend’s house for dinner last night, which was really nice. She had her husband are flying to Phoenix in a couple of weeks time (I did sing them a few lines from “By the time I get to Phoenix”). Apparently if they had flown economy on BA and booked a particular hotel it would have cost £6000 for this deal. After I had picked my jaw up off the table I did say that surely they must at least throw in a couple of prostitutes for that amount, but apparently it didn’t even include meals at the hotel. They booked by other means and paid about £300 for the flights. That leaves money for any *cough* extras that might be required.

I know it’s tomorrow, but there seems to be a lot of cynicism about Valentine’s Day out there at the moment (‘there’ being blogging world) with lots of people saying “it’s all commercial nonsense” “we shouldn’t need one particular day to tell someone we love them” and so on. These are entirely true but I just wonder whether people do actually tell their other half that they love them and so on – and maybe there are a few people where it is the only time their partner makes some attempt to show they love them or maybe there’s some poor chap who’s been plucking up the courage to tell some girl how he feels and maybe Valentine’s Day will be the opportunity to finally say it. I’m not someone who thinks Valentine’s Day is some magic formula but some people do actually enjoy it and get wined and dined and have a good time. Obviously that doesn’t include me this year, but I feel as though someone should stick up for the day – because it is after all about what people make it. If you don’t want all the commercialism then don’t go down that route. If you don’t need Valentine’s Day to tell someone you love them then good for you, but tomoorow tell them you love them anyway*.

Anyway, to get you in the mood for tomorrow, here is an animation from the National Film Board of Canada showing that there is hope for us all.

*Not that I'm telling you what to do...