BS: Happy Valentine's Day

Subject: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 03:31 AM

Just wanted to wish everybody a romantic and love-filled Day wherever you are. Long Live Love!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 03:36 AM

Thanks Eliza.
And to you and your man.
More special for me this year as the first Valentine since Mary and I were married.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 03:55 AM

and always remember ' tis better to have loved and lost '

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: bubblyrat
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 05:19 AM

I always thought that it was SAINT Valentine's Day , but obviously nowadays it isn't . So ,roll on April and we can celebrate George's Day ( and we British mustn't forget Dave, Pat ,and Andy's Days either !! ).

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 05:34 AM

You're quite right of course, bubblyrat. Saint Valentine. I just hope when I arrive at the Pearly Gates, Pete will let me in.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Will Fly
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 05:47 AM

Do you mean Pete Seeger?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 06:07 AM

For those who don't know....St. Valentine was beaten, stoned, beheaded and buried on 14 Feb 269 AD for helping persecuted Christians and marrying Christian couples! Such was his love of them!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Musket
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 07:17 AM

I said I would cook Mrs Musket a nice meal tonight and need advice.

Is it best to cut the toast into a love shape or arrange the baked beans thus?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Amergin
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 09:03 AM

All I have to say on the subject:

Click Here

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 09:21 AM

Mrs Musket is a lucky woman. But not to worry, no need to shape the meal. Baked beans are HEARTy enough as they are.

Thank you Eliza, Congrats Keith! Tis Best to have loved and to have spent 11 or more Valentines married. Bubbly, I learn about Valentines in Grade five, cutting out paper hearts from a huge crafts book and giving them to teacher classmates and family. As it is not a religious holiday, the Saint came later.

Eliza if pete is there, many of us will have to settle for the crowding and companionship below. GS, what a wonderful topic for a romantic dinner. :-)

Amergin nothing says romance like a large ranting bearded American on web cam. :-)

We are going to have a nice mean and turn up the heat, our plans after that have been redacted.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 10:00 AM

I'm married to a large, bearded, occasionally ranting American.

This morning I came down to the kitchen and found on the counter a dark red saucer filled with white powdered milk. A heart had been sculpted in the milk.

Eat your hearts out, ye cynics!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 10:20 AM

LOL!!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Will Fly
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 11:14 AM

My Dark Lady of the sonnets presented me with a box of liqueur chocolates in bed this morning, and a card. She got a card from me - but she also got the first chocolate.

It's steak and red wine this evening. Madame will cook the steak - I'll drink the wine.

It's a hard life...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Becca72
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 12:03 PM

I'm wishing everyone Happy VD

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Amergin
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 12:27 PM

I'm not large...I am rather petite and fragile...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 12:36 PM

Love, sweet love

               Dean

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 12:41 PM

Was that you in the video Amergin?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 12:44 PM

frogprince,

"You must be signed in to see this content."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Amergin
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 01:03 PM

Yeah...it's a recent poem of mine. Read it live first time last night....at a book launch for an anthology I'm in.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 01:05 PM

Love, sweet love

         let's try it again

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Amergin
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 02:08 PM

I Dreamt of Golden Apples After Reading Yeats

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 05:05 PM

froggy... same deal on the sign in. Maybe we should condsider another point of view from another Mudcatter? WARNING... this is "off" what some would allow but I understand. It is, well, what it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l8tUVcRwoM

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 07:55 PM

DAGNABIT!! Flckr has made some "improvement" or something; I put that on there, just like stuff that has been accessible with no problem.

THIS SHOULD WORK

Luv you guys, but not quite as much as I do my valentine at hand here. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Amergin
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 07:57 PM

Your valentine is your hand??? I know everyone does it...but just to announce it in public like that...jesus...have you no shame?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 08:01 PM

SCRRRREEEEEEEEAM !!!!!!

This works when I test it; if it doesn't connect...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Feb 14 - 06:24 PM

What date is Valentine's Day on?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Little Robyn
Date: 15 Feb 14 - 07:57 PM

So I spent St Valentine's day sitting at the hospital waiting while they diagnosed that I've had a smallish stroke! Doing OK - sort of. Just feeling a bit dozy and I'm very clumsy but at least I'm back home now, after a night in a hospital bed.
Happy whatever day we're up to....
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Feb 14 - 05:01 AM

Little Robyn, not a nice way to spend the day. Hope you're feeling better and can soon get through this 'blip'. Best wishes for a full recovery. Eliza x

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 16 Feb 14 - 05:07 AM

The heart inspired baked beans on toast looked complicated and risky. Thought I'd save it for my signature dish when getting my first Michelin star.

Made do with garlic chicken cassoulet in a white wine sauce. Got a bit left if anyone wants it?

If you are allergic to nuts, you shouldn't be reading the BS section in the first place.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Feb 14 - 06:26 AM

Oooh yes please, Musket, I'll eat up that 'bit left'. Sounds delish.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Musket
Date: 16 Feb 14 - 12:08 PM

You're on Eliza. It has mushrooms, small spuds and shallots in it, and borlotti beans that started to mush a wee bit to thicken the sauce. A bouquet of oregano, thyme, parsley and sage went in and fished out later, though a sprinkling of 'erb de Provençe remains. The white wine in question was a Sauvignon Blanc from Small & Small, (2011) a small New Zealand producer I buy from via Naked Wines. Not having chicken stock to hand, I made a bouillon vegetable stock. Four hours in the bottom of the aga and it hit the spot.

I suggest a bed of rice to soak up the sauce.

Dunno what to make her next year though. I might practice the beans on toast between now and then.

On a serious note, my signature dish is a vat of mushy peas. Don't knock it till you try it.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Feb 14 - 01:34 PM

I adore mushy peas, Musket! The trouble is, I'm easy to feed, as I adore almost anything!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 Feb 14 - 10:09 PM

another year and we're not on the Jeremy Kyle show yet,,,,,,,,

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: Musket
Date: 17 Feb 14 - 04:05 AM

Al... If more people ate mushy peas, there'd be no need for Jeremy Kyle as they make us sophisticated, erudite and farty.

Hence not part of my Valentine meal. Although the beans in the cassoulet.........

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 17 Feb 14 - 06:42 AM

'...sophisticated, erudite and farty...' Yep. That's me alright.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Valentine's Day
From: GUEST,Seaham Cemetry
Date: 17 Feb 14 - 06:52 AM

I always feed my dogs mushy peas. (Racing dogs.) No salt or sugar though. Plenty of fibre in mushy peas. Didnt know you were an expert Musket. I'll bring a few buckets round and you can make me some.

Sadly, nobody at present to share Valentine with, but living in hope, (as opposed to Hope. I dont live in Derbyshire.)