Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. How could we forget with all the hype in the shops? Red heart balloons drifting about all over the place and beautifully romantic cards displayed on every corner. Judging by the advertisements, you can link Valentine's Day to almost anything, except maybe a dose of 'flu.
I read somewhere recently that whereas in the old days, it was all about being single, Valentine's Day celebrations are now more about couples: dining out in the most romantic restaurant, bouquets of red roses, champagne, jewellery, short weekends away in the sun.
Do singles feel left out nowadays, I wonder? Of course it's not the same if you do your flirting via an app on your mobile. Have we lost our sense of the romantic, of the mild flirtation? I reckon the best thing to do if you don't have a partner right now, is to collect all your single friends, male and female and cart them down to the pub for a few drinks. And I mean the very best champagne.
The (slightly) older generation will remember the times when you met that nice guy and had been on let's say three dates with him and you were starting to get stars in your eyes when you thought about him. And then on Valentine's Day you got this card in the mail, usually humorous, not a mad declaration of love and passion by any means, just nice, it made you smile, you know? But wow! It still gave the old heart strings a bit of a jangle. Maybe you didn't end up together after all but it was fun while it lasted. Even if you cried when it was over. That was Valentine's Day.
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