"Saint Valentine used to be the patron saint of lovers, now he seems to be the patron saint of card makers." Edward Stilliard
Yup. "St Hallmark's Day" is upon us - a day that sees hordes of chavs clogging the supermarket queues to buy bunches of red flowers that look like the sort of thing tied to some railings where a cyclist got killed; the only day in the calendar that such horrors as rose-scented chocolates are ever a "thing", and when sales of made-in-China fluffy toys with sickly "love" slogans go up.
John Lydon has the right idea:
My sentiments, exactly.
Here here!!!!!! For me, all I need is gin and sex!!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Valentine's Day dears!
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So when is "Gin and Sex Day"? I must get a card. Jx
DeleteChrist! I think you'd better order a box of cards! (Personally, I've never found it necessary to send my bloke(s) a card...
DeleteMe neither! Jx
DeleteGood gods! The Keats 12 truffles in a hera (sic) shaped box (65g) costs £12.99 but 10 of the same truffes in a long box (55g) "only" costs £5.99. And a box weighing 117g with the truffles just rattling about inside costs £7.99 - nearly twice as many truffles for a third less money!
ReplyDeleteHera should smite Keats. Hard!
Or else spend your money on some chocolates that a) don't stink like a Yardley box set of talc and soap you'd get for your Nana, and b) taste of chocolate..? Jx
DeleteLove the poem and the complex song lyrics.
ReplyDeleteMr Lydon was not exactly Stephen Sondheim-esque in the lyric-writing department. Jx
Deleteum...sorry, I read that without my glasses on..."love the porn and the song lyrics"
DeleteI'm sure either interpretation applies. 😂 Jx
DeleteI guess you read my mind, dinahmow.
DeleteI published a Valentine's post yesterday and thought better of it, so I took it down. I was in a garden centre last week and saw a display of bog standard cadbury chocolate bars the sort you get from Home Bargains for £1.50 the same ones with your name on at the garden centre £5.99 I hope the people who buys them, opens them and finds the chocolate has turned white with age. Bastard rob dogs! There was something else I was going to mention but I've forgotten.
ReplyDeleteI never buy anything from a garden centre gift-shop. Overpriced tat, every time! The best garden centres only sell plants, tools and compost. Jx
DeleteSome garden centres are awash with the most twee objects imaginable - stuff that I thought had vanished along with the 1970's. Sometimes it takes me hours to wonder round to take it all in - like visiting a museum.
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"Twee", and very over-priced... Jx
DeleteNo Card for me then methinks but hey I am OK with the Gin
ReplyDeleteHa! Jx
DeleteNice cup of tea and a packet of Bourbons here!
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Bourbons are addictive! Jx
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