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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Valentine's Day
« on: February 04, 2009, 04:06:27 PM »
I wondered if we put our heads together if we could come up with some cool ideas for gifts or things to do on Valentine's Day?

I need something to make a 49 year old grumpy farmer into a sweet cherub.

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Zesty White

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2009, 04:50:11 PM »
Well I've gone down the tried and tested route, so a dozen red roses should arrive (there was a problem last year, so I'm not holding my breath) at my fiancee's house on the 14th, and I have some perfume for her.

If it doesnt keep me in the good books for another year, at the very least it will keep me out the bad books for about 72 hours.

Do you think the fact that I consulted moneysavingexpert.com before buying anything detracts from the spirit of the giving....?
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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2009, 04:56:46 PM »
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on February 04, 2009, 04:06:27 PM
I wondered if we put our heads together if we could come up with some cool ideas for gifts or things to do on Valentine's Day?

I need something to make a 49 year old grumpy farmer into a sweet cherub.


what you done wrong diane
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peter

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2009, 04:57:24 PM »
A case of beer will help
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2009, 05:05:56 PM »
Beer probably would help - but not him - he doesn't drink alcohol of any kind because of his religion.
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2009, 05:06:51 PM »
Quote from: Zesty White on February 04, 2009, 04:50:11 PM
Well I've gone down the tried and tested route, so a dozen red roses should arrive (there was a problem last year, so I'm not holding my breath) at my fiancee's house on the 14th, and I have some perfume for her.

If it doesnt keep me in the good books for another year, at the very least it will keep me out the bad books for about 72 hours.

Do you think the fact that I consulted moneysavingexpert.com before buying anything detracts from the spirit of the giving....?

How did you know what perfume to buy? Did you ask?
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2009, 05:08:31 PM »
I'll be in Glasgow that night anyway, with Lucy, as it's the weekend of a holiday show we'll be attending. I've booked a hotel already. It wasn't the cheapest - they were all sold out, (probably because of the show), but it's a Premier Inn, which is good value and comfortable, so I should sleep well, and I've said I'll go halves on the cost.

I'm hoping she'll treat me to a meal, seeing as I did all the hotel booking arrangements. I won't hold my breath though...
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2009, 05:24:18 PM »
Also...and this is important

I need help with a good idea for a two-hour writing workshop I am doing on Feb 11 at the library. I came up with a snazzy title for the library bullitin "Love in Letters and Lines" - great title eh? But I have nothing to go with it!  Any ideas - no matter how silly - will be better than what I have got now. Zilch.

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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2009, 05:36:50 PM »
When is it this year?
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2009, 05:55:37 PM »
Get 'em to write limericks, Diane. Prizes for the tastefully rude, as well as for alliteration, punctuation, scanning and rhyme.

Maybe give them a first line.

Something like:

The wife of a vicar from Bude...




If you need any more ideas, just ask.
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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2009, 06:34:56 PM »
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on February 04, 2009, 05:24:18 PM
Also...and this is important

I need help with a good idea for a two-hour writing workshop I am doing on Feb 11 at the library. I came up with a snazzy title for the library bullitin "Love in Letters and Lines" - great title eh? But I have nothing to go with it!  Any ideas - no matter how silly - will be better than what I have got now. Zilch.


Diane, this is an adaptation of another idea, but you could get them to write the opening sentence of a romantic novel. It has to be so intriguing that you would want to read the rest of the book. It can also, of course, be funny, weird or downright rude.
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Tom

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2009, 06:57:43 PM »
Or, you could get them to write about the language of love, using as many foreign words for love they can think of. In limerick form.
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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2009, 06:59:18 PM »
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2009, 09:42:22 PM »
Good ideas! well some of them anyway  ;D
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Valentine's Day
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2009, 11:45:23 PM »
Roger's idea is good. Get them to write the opening line on the first day. They'll think, "This is easy", and be well settled.

Next day, become "bad cop", and make 'em write the rest of the book!
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