Yes, I'm afraid I did.

Every year on this day I encourage people to avoid wallowing in the mire of their own self-pity and cheer up and do something about it (though I haven't seen any of that this year - well done!) but to tell the truth I've never really known how to deal with Valentine's Day. For us it falls almost exactly between our wedding anniversaries so we can treat it as a half-year celebration, but the things deemed to be romantic that we're encouraged to do on the day seem unavoidably ridiculous to me.

We got ourselves an Edible Arrangement on the way back from the cinema (that was the smallest one I could find a picture of), and gave each other gifts today. Once again breaking out of traditional Valentines, Whitney presented me with a bag of sausages and wild boar bacon, and I gave her an apple corer and an ice cream scoop. Normally this choice of gifts might have proven fatal, but there's also a dressing gown on its way for her (colour unknown) - I would have liked that to have arrived before the date did.

Then we went to the supermarket.