Yesterday morning an unexpected audible ping greeted my arrival into the living room. Conscious it was Valentines Day, I poetically romanticised this soundscape maybe Cupid’s bow string shooting an arrow in my direction – This episode playing out as a gesture of amour from a love struck beau. It was not long, though, before yours…
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Wait A Minute Mr Postman!
On the morning of 14th February I was greeted by an unexpected audible ping on entering the living room in Chez Strachan. Foolishly, I romanticised this aural distraction maybe emanated from Cupid’s bow string; its source the forceful triggering an arrow in my direction; a gesture of amour from a love struck valentine. A notion,…
Don’t Ask Me Howard?!
Today sweethearts around the globe will drink a toast to mark a special day for the patron saint of love……. No, it’s not actress Margot Robbie’s birthday (I don’t think anyway!), I’m alluding to the perennial mid-February love fest which goes under the moniker of St Valentine’s Day. Throughout the world, enamoured couples will make affectionate gestures…
Rosencrantz, Guildenstern & Love Are Dead
Valentine’s Day proved a damp squib both weather and amour wise for yours truly, yesterday. With monsoon-like precipitation attention seeking outside, my missing romance gene and the wife’s apparent inability to display affection, meant the highlight of the day was her impromptu pre-meal haka. My wife’s interpretation of the Polynesian war dance was absolutely terrifying….
Stupid Cupid
It’s St Valentine’s Day – A perennial event celebrated by lovers, paying homage to the patron saint of ‘Two M&S Meals for £20 (including prosecco)’. St Valentine, not to be mistaken for St Tinder, the recently canonised matchmaker who employs more contemporary courtship encouragement techniques. On entering my living room this morning I was greeted…
What Is Love?
Tomorrow sweethearts around the globe will drink a toast to mark a special day for the patron saint of love……. No, it’s not Chelsea footballer John Terry’s birthday, I allude to the perennial mid-February lovefest that is St Valentine’s Day. Throughout the world, enamoured couples will make affectionate gestures like the sending of red roses, chocolates and…