If you’re looking to treat your loved ones this Valentine’s Day, what could be a more appropriate token of your affection than some chocolate hearts? Hotel Chocolat have your covered. You can choose from The Valentine’s sleekster box or the thick shelled Valentine’s Heart.
Happy Valentine’s Day. Today is of course a very important day for lovers. For me, however, Valentines Day has additional meaning. it’s the day CT and I set off on our year long adventure around the Antipodes and the day we arrived back home.
It’s also the day I started my blog, Chocolate Log Blog, as it was then. So to celebrate this love of all things chocolate, I have a box of luscious chocolates from Hotel Chocolat for one lucky chocolate lover – a Valentine’s Day Giveaway.
Now that Chocolate Log Blog has morphed into Tin and Thyme, I don’t do as much chocolate blogging as I used to, but it’s still very much a passion and I create at least one new chocolate recipe a month. I’m also still running the monthly chocolate blogging challenge, We Should Cocoa. Astonishingly, this has been going for over six years now. Where does the time go?
Chocolate Hearts for Valentine’s Day
To mark this blogiversay and my enduring love of chocolate, Hotel Chocolat sent me The Valentine’s. This box of heart shaped delights is from their Sleekster range and contains 27 delectable chocolates. Flavours include a fiery hazelnut praline with habanero chilli, salted espresso, honey, prosecco and gin and passion fruit cream. I love them all, but I was most surprised by the buttered rum, which I think might be my new favourite chocolate.
Anyway, this anniversary is a celebration of my readers too. This blog and the recipes I create would not exist if it wasn’t for you. Thank you so much for reading my posts, trying out my recipes and commenting. A special thank you goes to those who have stuck with me through the years – you deserve a medal.
Giveaway Now Over
Hotel Chocolat Valentine’s Heart
Hotel Chocolat have a lot of fun when it comes to naming their products and this one goes under the name of Open Your Heart To Me. Or as CT quipped “this is the kind of open heart surgery I thoroughly approve of”. I was very much taken by the chunky heart shell which coyly hid the chocolates within.
A good milk chocolate is always a joy to eat and although I would prefer a higher percentage of cocoa, the 40% contained in this milk chocolate was high enough to deliver a genuinely pleasurable experience. It was sweet and milky without being sickly and it had the toffee notes I associate with Hotel Chocolat’s house milk.
Parts of the shell were good and thick which is how I remember my Easter eggs being when I was a child. Oh and Wagon Wheels were enormous back then too!
Intrigued by the thought of Strawberry & Black Pepper as well as the Chilli Caramel, I was really looking forward to trying these particular chocolates. My disappointment would have been obvious to any onlookers when I found there was only one of each inside the heart. In fact there were only eight chocolates all together. I did know this before it arrived, but still managed to feel crestfallen.
Strawberry & Black Pepper
Distinctive black pepper, covered in dark chocolate, but I didn’t really pick up the flavour of strawberry although the filling itself was tart. This wasn’t as delicious as I thought it was going to be, in fact it was my least favourite and after all that anticipation too!
Soft Chilli Caramel
Lovely liquid caramel that had the kick to it that I was hoping for. There was no doubting that the back of my throat recognised chilli. The caramel was delicious and contrasted well with the dark chocolate, although more caramel and slightly less chocolate would have improved it further.
Vanilla Truffle
Biting through the milk chocolate shell, I tasted vanilla custard and it was totally delicious. Vanilla bean seeds were liberally distributed throughout this white chocolate ganache.
Raspberry Rapture
Tart flavoursome raspberries in a white chocolate ganache wrapped up in a milk chocolate shell – also delicious.
Smooth Praline
It’s hard to beat a good hazelnut praline and I was not disappointed by this one. Smooth, creamy and flavoursome, wrapped in a milk chocolate shell, this was, if my repetition may be excused, delicious.
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Valentines to me is a chance to spoil and show how much you love the person you are with, if you are lucky enough to be with someone.
Valentines Day to me, means a day of being spoilt, whether its you being spoilt or you’re spoiling someone special, maybe with a special gift and a nice card, something different to the usual day x
It’s a day for romantic love.
I don’t get the whole sending a valentine’s card to your son, daughter, auntie, uncle, grandma, cat, dog etc.
My favourite mummy moment is when i go for parent evening to my son school to hear how smart and well mannered my boy is. I burst with pride
I think Valentines is very over commercialised, I don’t need one day to say I love you
For me Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to spend quality time with my husband.
To me it means the one day you stop being distracted and to focus on and show appreciation to your loved ones,
I make sure my wife knows just how much I love her on 365 days of the year. She forbids me to buy her forced and over-priced flowers for Valentine’s Day
A dinner for my and my other half.
a day for relaxing and having some child free time to spoil ourselves
I think it is just about appreciating the loved ones in your life, although I do think Valentines Day held more importance when I was younger and you sent cards as a secret admirer (and even received them from a secret admirer sometimes! with lovely/funny poems in them) x
A day for cards and roses and a special meal – and having my clean socks all paired up for me! Ok, maybe a little unusual, but it makes me feel cherished.
Appreciating being loved. Spending time with family and indulging in something that you enjoy.
Just a little time for each other
not that fussed about it. we don’t get cards for each other
A special day to remember just what love is and hopefully be spoilt too!
Valentines day used to drive me mad, but now I’ve got a long term boyfriend I quite enjoy it. We try to do something quite low key as the restaurants and shops always charge a fortune!
Valentines is special to me as it was when my Husband proposed to me, we’ve been married for 27 years now!
It’s a day to spend with your loved ones. It’s not about expensive gifts to us. It’s more about quality time together xx
I love Valentines Day for showing your Love in a well meaning way and not just with gifts, although chocolates are much appreciated and even if your single if you love someone show them by a gesture of cooking a meal or cup of tea on this special day.
The day we don’t need to feel bad for buying more expensive piece of meat to cook a lovely dinner or treat ourselves to a meal out 🙂
I love it – I always get a nice card and a bunch of flowers
It gives us an excuse to have a special dinner & a bottle of wine!
It’s a good excuse to go out for a meal or have a takeaway
Not really one for all the mushy stuff, but partner is, normally do things over the year
hype, commercialism and alot of anxiety for those whose loved ones don’t ” deliver”
It doesn’t mean a lot to me at the moment as I’m not part of a couple. This year my daughter had a valentines disco so it was nice to be involved getting her ready for the disco so I could still be a part of iit x
An excuse to have a lovely date with the person you love and spoil each other
for me its just like any other day and I think its too commercialised these days.
It means that the shops make loads of money! Other than that not much, I tell him I love him every day!
To me it means another gimmick to make money…me and my fella have been together 14 years and celebrate our love every day.
It doesn’t mean anything to me because I’m an old age pensioner and I don’t bother anymore
Too commercialised and about spending money. Pretty depressing all round really.
i’m afraid it’s a bit too commerical these days!
A day where you show your partner your continued love.
I dont really think much of Valentines Day, I think you should be nice and treat your partner no matter whatever the occassion. x
Valentines day means absolutely nothing to me – I’m single but even if I wasnt it wouldnt be a big deal – i think you should show someone you love them every day rather than just one day a year
It’s over commercialised but chocolates and extra attention are nice.
Not a lot , we try to make time together every month, even a night in the campervan in a field nearby..
A little reminder to tell who you love how much you love them. (And mainly: An excuse to eat good food, drink nice wine and overindulge with your special someone!).
Blatant commercialisation – it’s the rest of the year (and every year) that counts 🙂
For me, valentines day will now forever be the anniversary of my first labour…my son’s birthday is 15th February!
Both good memories and bad for you by the sound of it!
I think that Valentines day is getting too expensive and commercial, I like the token gestures but that’s enough for me
Valentines day is a bunch of commercial nonsense and not that important to me.
Crass commercialism
Rather bah Humbug, but it’s overhyped and has lost sight of the romantic roots.
It’s just a day to remind us not to take loved ones for granted
To me Valentines Day means spending time cuddled up with my boyfriend and enjoying each others company. We show each other how much we love each other all the time, but Valentines Day is just an excuse to spend time as just us together and snuggle up. 🙂
A chance to spend some time with loved ones and show them you care
It’s a day to show your loved one how much you appreciate them
Not very much to me because I am a single pringle but me and the kids usually have a movie night and pizza on Valentines day.
I love Valentines Day its the only time I get a present and some flowers.
It’s a day to show your loved one that you really care
Sorry but nothing!!! I think its a waste of money, we can tell each other we love them every day
Being single lol.
We don’t buy in to the fuss of Valentine’s day by spending extortionate amounts on each other but we do take the time so appreciate each other so it’s a good reminder not to take each other for granted.
I avoid the commercial side but make sure I make my wife feel special like every other day.
Valentine’s day is just another day for me, I try to remember buying a card for my husband but that’s about it.
Valentines day means….my birthday!!
Not a lot our weeding anniversary is far more meaningful
We dont usually do much on valentines day. I prefer random surprises. I find it overpriced and commercialised
It’s a day to treasure your loved one, and to reflect on the love that is between you. It’s nice to have and give a pressie too as a token of the love between you. I always like to craft a pressie for my husband on Valentine’s day- I think it means more than one that is bought.
Valentines is a time to spend some quality time together. Time for a treat – a takeaway and a bottle of wine
Valentines means to me spending quality time with your loved one and showing them how much you appreciate them
Valentines Day used to mean more to me when I was younger but it was very special this year as it was the first Valentines I’ve had since getting engaged!
Spending time with my mum watching the great british bake off with a good G&T
to have a date night when you have children
Valentines Day means a special meal and time together … we don’t do cards or presents
Valentine’s Day means a lot to me because I have celebrated 52 of these with my husband and everyone has been very special to us.
A chance to relax and spend some quality time together after a frenetic time at work helping other people get the perfect gifts for their loved ones
Overly commercialised.
It doesn’t mean anything to me, its a day when companies over-charge for flowers, cards, meals etc. Every day is a day to celebrate love and show those you care about that you love them <3
an overcommercialised made up day that manufacturers play on to boost sales – but I am still happy to receive a present…
It means the chance to do something special for my husband.
It’s largely commercialised – we prefer to do spontaneous thing through the year instead!
Valentine’s Day is a chance for hubby and I to sit back and reflect on all that has happened since we celebrated our 1st one together in 1968. We count our many blessings 🙂
A chance to say thank you for all you do
The chance to eat lots of food, have some wine and enjoy the company of my fave boy!
Just a day to love and be loved, hopefully like every day!
A little bit of fun and can be quite nice, but overly commercialised
We don’t do a lot for Valentine’s Day. This year we just used it as an excuse to get a takeaway
We don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day, we have special days throughout the year though.
To me Valentines is just another day. My husband went all out for our very first Valentines together and I doubt he will ever be able to top it so we don’t celebrate x
Like to have a nice meal for the family and a yummy desert but apart from that my hubby and I don’t do presents.
Not an awful lot really, we have been together years so we don’t really celebrate it at all. We usually celebrate our anniversary though
I must admit we don’t usually bother and prefer to save our money to put towards other things but I do like the idea of having a romantic day with my hubby.
It’s a day to show your loved ones how grateful you are for their love and support and a chance to return the favour with any number of gestures to fit the budget
it means spending time with the one you love
After over 30 years together it’s not really a big deal
Oh wow, when i was younger it used to be the big think, sending and receiving cards, but i am now too long in the tooth to bother with it
It doesn’t mean much to us, we buy each other chocolates but don’t take it too seriously!
another day to spend time with my husband, but I like to do that everyday
Nothing, we should spread light and love every day of the year
Definitely Emma. If we all did that, the world would be a truly wonderful place.
It’s a time for family I think, my son always runs me a bubble bath bless him
It’s a super romantic day that you spend with your partner doing special things together
a day to spoil your loved ones
Valentine’s Day is a day to celebrate love. There is not enough love in the world. I think it’s more about the love of all mankind and being good to each other promoting each other in a way that is positive and beneficial to all. Everyday should be Valentine’s Day!
i dont celebrate valentines day at all probably cause i never get a gift. id be lucky if hubby remembers our wedding anniversay!
A chance to spoil my man but be disappointed that he forgot 🙂
Time to spend quality time with my boyfriend
Means spending time and enjoying and appreciating the person you love!
making more of an effort to express my love + passion!
Taking time out to say/show how much you care
an excuse to go out for a meal!
To be honest with you not a great deal. Its just another day and a waste of money, i hate wasting cash so if my partner came home with flowers id be very cross as we live with a strict budget and its hard enough as it is without spending cash we dont have.
To be honest: not a great deal. We go out for a meal but not usually on the day itself as we are both too rubbish to book a table in time
Chocolate, lots of chocolate, and a reminder that my partner is the best. Then a little bit more chocolate.
Valentines Day is about spoiling your loved one even if its just to show how much you love them still.
It means I should change the bed sheets. Only joking!
It means time to concentrate on your loved one
I hate it! overhyped and just another excuse for the shops to get money out of you!
I’m afraid to say I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s day. I would prefer to give or get given a pressie out of the blue rather than on a set date.
Well, to me, it’s just a way for companies to make you buy stuff you don’t need!!
Valentine’s day is a day to spend with your loved ones, doing things you love. Not buying over priced flowers or going out to eat! haha.
Its just another day in the calendar. I don’t need to be told a particular day to tell or show my partner I love them.
we dont go in for the commercial side what we do is come together as a family, make a lovely meal together and generally just have a special film night it with some extra goodies. My wife and i do however make our own cards for one another
over commercialised. more aimed at the under 25s I think. I dont like someone buying flowers because he “has” to, it doesnt mean anything
its a chance to show mum some extra appreciation on her special day 🙂
Absolutely nothing-it’s just a normal day where flowers and chocolate prices increase!
A day to celebrate our relationship.
It might be seen as a bit commercial, but it is a nice day to make some time for your loved ones.
I treat Valentine’s Day in a similar way to how I treat Mother’s Day…it’s an unashamed opportunity to tell your nearest and dearest how much they really mean to you. We don’t say it enough in day to day life do we?
To be honest Valentines has lost its appeal over the years now that Im married – but I still celebrate it with a takeaway and small (non-romantic) gift
Valentines Day is about spending time with your loved ones and making them know they are special
Being honest, very little. Comes soon after Xmas, my B’day and our Anniversary. Everything is expensive so would rather leave for another time and really treat my wife to a special day. We do discuss though so I know we are on the same page.
Valentines is a lovely way to show someone how much they mean to you
Nothing much, I think it puts pressure on people to impress, especially with social media. My partner and I ignore it completely
a good reason to get spoilt
A chance to show my other half that they are
vALENTINES DAY IS ABOUT LETTING YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER KNOW JUST HOW MUCH YOU APPRECIATE AND CARE FOR THEM. iT DOESNT HAVE TO BE MATERIALISTIC, BUT JUST SPENDING TIME TOGETHER IS ENOUGH
It’s a nice chance to spend some time with loved ones. We don’t have to spend money on presents. Time is more precious.
It doesn’t mean much as we don’t celebrate it.
It’s something special between me and my partner that doesn’t involve the kids!
It means romance and showing your other half you care
Doesn’t mean much to me, we have never celebrated it either by way of card or present
It means nothing to me as Im single
Unfortunately it means nothing to my husband so we don’t celebrate it, but we see eye to eye on most things so I tend to let him off the hook!
Its the day one of the year we get to enjoy a romantic candlelit dinner together and the only time my hubby sends me flowers!
Its a day to spend time with your loved ones and show them how much you appreciate them 🙂
Valentines day is a day to spend with loved ones. Im not a huge celebrator of valentines day to be honest as i feel you should be able to celebrate your love any day of the year
It means giving cards and having cuddles, maybe dinner for two at home or a movie night – nothing flash x
Valentines Day for me is a day to spend quality time with your loved ones, make an effort, spend the evening together away from tablets and phones!
Is a day to cherish and spoil, loved ones!
Valetines Day is a very commercial day, a day for tokens and avoidance of commercialism
Being spoilt, maybe with flowers and chocolates too! Time for a cuddle-up on the sofa.
A wee meal out with my husband and some time for ourselves x
It’s just another day for us, we don’t sent cards to each other but we do try and sit down together after the children go to bed.
It doesn’t mean a huge amount to me as my partner is nice to me all year round and loving although its the one time of year where I might get a bunch of flowers.
Answering honestly, nothing but a chance for commercialism to shine its light, we are romantic throughout the year and make time genuinely, not when society tell us too !
A time to reflect on 35 years of happy marriage
The chance to spend time with and spoil those you love, not just your partner
Valentines Day doesn’t mean a great deal to me, to be honest..if you love your partner you cherish them every day, not just one day a year..Having said that, my hubby and I do tend to go out for a nice meal on Valentines Day
The chance to spoil the ones you love
Valentine’s day to me is a very good meal with a very good bottle. And just the two of us.
Cared for, loved, respected and happy. I love valentines day as it makes you feel as one.
Just another day. You should spoil and show your love everyday, not just because convention says you should. Still I will always get my partner a small card and maybe a little treat or a night away in a local English pub.
Not a great deal really. I have never bothered much with Valentines day. I do like the discount valentines chocolate in the shops after though!
To me it is an excuse to buy chocolates and flowers
It doesn’t really mean anything to us! We get each other a card, but that’s it – it’s all a bit too commercialised for us…
We don’t celebrate Valentine’s day, it just seems a shame that it takes a ‘day’ to tell someone special how special they are to you!
It means making sure the other person knows how much you think of them
It is a day to stop and think about how much you appreciate your loved ones and show them you care.
It’s a day to spend time with loved ones. and show them that you appreciate them.
If you’re a bloke it means you have to pay through the nose, or your really pay the price.
I think it is a bit of a con as if you do not show it all year round then what’s the point? Invented consumerism, but yes I do buy a card and some chocs… 🙂
Despite believing that Valentine’s Day is far too commercialised, and that I love my boyfriend every day of the year, I love setting aside a special day to appreciate each other and show our love 🙂
Had a taste of these in their store the other day, if I don’t win will definitely be buying my mother a box!!
Not a lot now we have been married for 11 years, we don’t bother with it any more, we treat each other all year long 🙂
A time to appreciate the years we’ve spent together and the love we still share
Being soppy with my other half…and staying at home for a nice meal
It’s a day to spoil one another but I think it’s good to make the effort all year round.
Being honest, Valentine’s Day doesn’t mean that much to me and me fella. We used to buy each other cards, and have a special meal. But the thing is, I’m a very lucky lady when it comes to love. Every day is like Valentine’s Day, so we don’t really need a ‘special’ day to celebrate it. Having said that, we would still give these yummy chocs a very good home, if I’m lucky enough to win 🙂
A day to tressure with the special women in your family and to feel treasured
It’s time for me and my boyfriend to spend quality time together
I love Valentine’s Day. It’s one of the very rare occasions my husband & I have a night out without the children!
spending time with each other and being generous and loving
Valentine’s day is a wonderful idea to think about loved ones, that has sadly turned too commercial
Chocolates and a lovely meal!
An excuse to spend even more time with my husband!
i dont have a partner but i think its a nice day to spoil someone you love and spend time with family
Love the chocolates & flowers but to be honest every day is Valentines Day with my Hubby. He is very romantic & I know I am lucky.
I don’t think you should need a special day to tell someone you love them.
To me, Valentines Day means spending time with your loved ones.
I’m not really a fan, especially not of all the commercial pressure. It’s just a day. Though chocolate is always welcome.
Valentine’s Day is for Celebrating Romantic Love. A Delicios meal and night at the theatre can be a wonderful way to Celebrate Valentines with a loved one.
it means love and fun to me and its also my wedding anniversary on valentines day x
A double celebration. I hope you had a lovely day.
Valentines day for me means showing my family even more how much i love them by having love themed stuff such as for breakfast we have love heart pancakes
Take time out to appreciate each other and reminisce about the old times together and when you met, or got engaged or married.
Its the day when i go into work and come out in the daylight 🙂
It shouldn’t really be any different to any other day but it makes you stop and consider each other. The same goes for Mother’s day.
I actually really enjoy Valentines 🙂 To me it means date night! 🙂 I either prepare a nice meal at home for my partner and I or we go out! This year I made a lovely steak dinner and I was treated to lovely flowers and candles! To me it isn’t about giving it is just nice to have a romantic evening in together 🙂
We don’t usually celebrate Valentines Day but this year we actually crossed the border from Cornwall into Devon and went for a nice meal at an Italian restaurant.
I think it’s just an nice day to say I love you to someone special in your life. I know some people are a bit bah humbug about it but it doesn’t have to cost anything. To cook some one a nice meal or have an extra cuddle is enough 🙂
valentine’s day is just another day to me. the way I feel is that if you love someone you show it every day of the year, one day shouldn’t be any different to the others 🙂
ANOTHER DAY IN THE CALENDAR TO FLEECE THE PUBLIC AT LARGE
It is a good excuse for a date night with your partner.
Showing the person I love that I love them.
Valentine’s is a day where we get to show our love to those we don’t normally always remind, that we do indeed love and cherish them greatly 🙂 x
Not a lot as we gave up getting gifts and just take a posh holiday each year.
Another day to waste money – be single and buy yourself cake instead!
It’s a day to appreciate loved ones
It’s a day of romance with the person you are dating or been with a long time
a day with the family. we usually go out for a meal but this year we have twin babies so we just did a takeaway. x
The day to show the one you love that you love them and spoil them a bit 🙂
Valentine’s Day for me is a bit of fun. A chance to show your loved one you care about them, and to do something nice. Me and my husband always treat it as a fun day, a chance for a silly present and to appreciate what we have.
to be honest you should show your partner you care everyday, not just valentines day x
Just another day..
absolutely nothing. i’ve been single for a very very long time!
Hotel Chocolat is so yummy, I’d love to win it for my mummy!
A day to spend with my husband – we’ve been married over 30 years.
To pen quality time together doing things you would not normally do
Nice day to share a meal and choc
we have been married 27 years so just another day as every day special
an opportunity to express the love you have for your partner
It means little to us now. We did celebrate it when first courting, then we were married, kids came along, work became busy, kids now left and married and we have retired and sort of celebrate it continually by loving companionship. We enjoy and excuse to make a special meal whether it’s chineses new year, national sweet potato day or valentines. However, I am partial to the odd very nice chocolate treat, bunch of daisies or great tasting tipple but that is an expected ‘surprise’ year-round.
All sounds just as it should be. But now I want to know about sweet potato day 🙂
Valentine’s day means a nice meal probably a takeaway and some chocolates
a bit of pampering for my wife
To me it’s a time to rekindle a relationship with a loved one when sometimes in the year you just don’t get the chance for that lovely romance with both of us working
Valentines day mean to me a special day to celebrate love & have a few chocs!
It’s a good excuse for us to spoil each other x
Valentine’s Day means nothing to me – it’s just a day, like any other day.
Celebrating the very day we met, 42 years ago!
Just a day to exchange a card and remind each other of our love x
It is a day to show how much you love that person
A day to remind us how we should all be more loving, to everyone everyday and chocolate should always be quality!
It means a day where I think about loved ones past and present
Just showing my wife how much I still love her. We don’t go mad, but we do something together and make time for it.
An excuse for a meal out !!
nothing as we have got older we are always too busy with the kids
We don’t do valentines day, it’s not really a big deal to us
Treat my mum to a day out and always have chocolates. Happy Mothers Day
Just to have time alone with my partner which we every rarely do.
It means a warm breeze in the air and a spring in your step
It’s a good excuse to go heart mad in my planner 🙂
Valentines means taking extra time and effort to show your partner how much you care about them
i’m currently single so it means nothing to me! (except cheap chocolate in the days after!)
It’s time for me and my husband to spend together, just us.
Valentine’s Days to me means chocolate! We don’t bother with cards as it just seems an excuse for the card shops to make money, but I do like having a box of yummy valentines day chocolates.
Fir me, Valentines day is just a bit of din. I don’t take it seriously, we don’t exchange lavish gifts and are quite happy just using it as an excuse for more chocolate.
Valentine is just another day me and my husband as one of us is always working
A chance to spoil each other! 🙂
everyday is love and valetines day
These chocolates look so special, I’m sure they taste great too. I’m a huge chocoholic
To me Valentine’s Day is a day to make your loved one feel particularly special, and celebrate your love for each other
I think it’s a day where companies make a lot of money. Romance shouldn’t be about just one day, it should be everyday.
Valentines day isn’t very different to any other day to me,my husband and I tell each other we love them about 20 times a day anyway.I did get nice flowers and a card though.
Congratulations! 14 Feb is a significant day for you and the chocolates look lovely. Now you just need to organise another trip to the Antipodes to celebrate 🙂
Hahaha, indeed that would be wonderful Johanna, especially as I now have family living in Melbourne.
it’s my birthday so it means never going out in a group with friends as places don’t want a group booking and your friends are all off with their significant other anyway…
Oh nooooooooo! Perhaps you could have an official birthday and then you can choose your own date.
A celebration of love…. and chocs….. and champers 😉 😀
A day to celebrate love.
Valentine’s day means a nice meal probably a takeaway and some chocolates … or flowers… maybe both
Valentine’s day is a nice excuse for a bit of fun, even if it with not spending any money. We find our own way, our favourite meal, a “no tech” night and family time.
We don’t do much more than a card for Valentines Day (and some years we don’t even do that!) – far too commercialised. Having said that – nothing like a Happy Valentines Day text to make me smile 🙂
Happy Blogiversary!!! Wow 8 years – you must have seen a lot of changes in blogging over the last 8 years…wishing you many more years of happy blogging! Eb x
Thanks Eb. Indeed, things are vastly different now, but I’m hoping I can hang on in there for a few more years yet.
Absolutely nothing – it is too cmomercialised and over-priced. A card and a home-made meal at home with possibly candles and wine is all that is needed
For me it’s all about letting the person you love know how much they mean to you. It’s not all about the gifts.
Congratulations on the anniversaries, funny how some dates are are occurring theme in our lives. Love the idea of creating a new recipe every month, where does the inspiration come from?
Thanks Linda. Feb 14th is definitely an interesting day for me, but not in the obvious sense. Inspiration for creating recipes probably comes from thinking about food far too much.
Have to admit that i’m not a fan of it, I think the idea behind it is lovely but it has now become so over commercialised and present focused that it’s lost its meaning for me.
All I want is chocolate chocolate chocolate. Happy Valentine’s Day to me 🙂 lol
It is not a particularly special day for me. I think it’s quite commercial and an excuse to get people to spend money. I much prefer romantic gestures like cooking a meal for my partner or going for a long walk with him.
It’s just a nice way to think about my family and be thankful for them.
It means a lot to us as our Daughter was born on a Valentines Day, so extra special
Oh how lovely. Happy Birthday to your daughter.
Valentine’s Day used to be a day when people could let others know that they had romantic intentions, although as Valentine’s cards were anonymous and not signed with real names, I’m not sure how that worked! It would be nice to go back to a gentler sort of celebration, and take the emphasis off spending money!
Yes, so true Suelle. It’s rather sad that it’s become associated with so much commercial hype.
I don’t see it as a particularly special day, it’s crazy to express how you feel about someone on one day of the year. It should be all year round!
Happy Blogaversiary. We don’t really do anything special on Valentines Day, but I would love these chocolates though and would share with my loved ones
Thank you Iris. I’m all into sharing the chocolate love 🙂
we usually end up celebrating it on a weekend near to the day if it falls on a weekday so its not really a special day as such to us
We don’t really do a lot on valentines day, I just think love should be shown all year – not just on one day x
Happy Blogiversary Choclette. Blogging world has changed so much and there are only a few blogs I follow loyally, though I may not always comment and yours is one of them. I am genuinely so happy for you and truly wish you many many good years of blogging and happiness with your CT.
Aw, thank you so much Shaheen. Blogging has truly changed, so I do really appreciate comments and interaction from my vintage blogging friends.
Having some romantic time with my OH and a nice Italian meal, prosecco and praline chocolates
I’d love to win some of these yummy chocs
I think it’s a lovely day to make that extra effort for your loved one to show them how much you care x
It doesn’t really mean that much to be honest as I’m single but I’ll still curl up with a good book and my cat snuggled up on my feet this evening. 🙂
a day to just take five in the mad rush of the morning and have that extra hug and cup of tea together
It means a day to cherish with each other – if we have the time
It really doesn’t mean that much as we’ve been married for so long. It meant an “extra effort of wooing day” when I was younger and single though! lol
To me it’s just a day that represents the love that we all appreciate
It’s a day where I remind myself how lucky I am to have my partner & gorgeous boys around me.
I love Hotel Chocolat and would love to win this! To me Valentine’s day is all about having a great day spending time with my husband and children
It means a time to enjoy all the pretty things that people put out. I don’t really go for Valentine’s Day in the typical sense because I don’t think a special day is needed to show someone you love them. Heart and flower shaped goodies are never a bad thing though!
for me it means getting flowers and my partner being nice to me lol xx
Valentine’s Day is a celebration of lust and lust means choccies.
Nothing much to be honest because I’m single I just treat it as a normal day But I do love Hotel Chocolat 🙂 x
another expense!! but a good reason to get spoilt!!
Its a day to spoil and be spoilt. Just have fun together.
It is a day to spend time with your loved ones, whether it is a partner, your family or a pet. And if you are completely on your own, you can treat yourself to something you love or enjoy!
To appreciate your better half.