My first valentine

We went to our favourite Earl's Court haunt tonight - Addie's Cafe. It's got the best Thai food you can find in all of London and it's cosy setting is enough to make me forgive Lionel for the lack of flowers, candy, and all things saccharine on Valentine's day. Lionel's not big on the whole commercialised commemoration of love thing... but he's never stingy when it comes to taking me out for dinner, bless his cotton socks! (I picked that one up from Liam Madden's Java lecture... just shoot me, won't you?)

I've never been on an actual Valentine's date before, so going across the road to a Thai restaurant is my idea of the most extravagant Valentine's ever! Even beats the time the 5 of us Odac girls planted 'secret admirer' notes in hand decorated coloured cups for the 15 Odac guys in our batch. The Odac guys (only realising it was Valentine's day at the last minute) bought 5 beanie baby ducks for the 5 Odac girls and placed them in a plastic bag pinned up on the notice board with a piece of paper saying "Girls, take one each". Such sentimental bastards!

And while we're speaking of all things romantic, Paris photos will be up soon. We've got a nice collection I'm going to call the Parisien Monotone series, just because cloudy pictures make brilliant black and whites... or just look better that way...