V+1

Just over four years ago I excitedly arrived in England for the first time.  I quickly became friends with two fun girls Ramsie and Lauren.  We experienced this new foreign land together going on day trips with the uni, tried to stay fit at the gym on campus and went out to pubs/clubs at night.  Thanks to these two girls one night at the end of January at one of those clubs I met Tom.  It's history from there, and yes every now and then picking up a guy from a club on the £1 tequila night can equal true love. 

It was Lauren's idea sometime in January that the three of us girls go out on Valentines.  We had only been in the country a short while so surely we would all be without dates.  No one imagined I would find the man of my dreams so quickly.  When Tom asked me out to be his valentine I politely turned him down.  I already had plans.  I think this was a good move as my hard to get tactics really worked.  He was infatuated with me of course and invited me out the next night instead.  He invited me out for V+1. 

That date four years ago was smashing, I was truly spoilt! Embarrasingly so.  This year I didn't receive flowers and loads of gifts but I did have a wonderful evening.  Seriously it was so much fun!  Tom took me out to The Hove Kitchen.  We enjoyed a three course meal; in effort to save money we had the £10 2 course set menu and shared the bleeding chocolate fondant for pudding.  Our meal was accompanied by plenty of drinks; a French Martini for me to start followed by sharing wine.  We sat chatting and eating for a couple of hours.  I really enjoyed our time.  It is rare to get such quality one on one time together as we are so often with friends.  And you know what, Tom is a lot of fun to hang out with! 

We didn't exchange gifts, but in the cards we gave each other we wrote each other poems to express our love.  I was quite proud of mine.  I'm not a poet by any means, but I spent some time on it and I think his poem was the best I've ever written. It was sentimental with some humour and really sweet.  He forgot/"didn't have time" to write in my card so he wrote his poem for me at the restaurant.  It began, "Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm writing this whilst you're in the loo."  Precious.  It did make me laugh.

What was the highlight of your V day?

Love