Curry and Cake

Far from being romantic, my Valentine's evening is going to be taking place in a local curry house with the in-laws (in an non-married sense).

Don't get me wrong, today started lovely, waking up to a gorgeous boyfriend, cute card and delicious bowl of Lucky Charms (my all-time favourite breakfast cereal!) - we don't think Valentine's is a big thing so this suited me down to the ground. However, tomorrow is Mr. S&S's birthday and I have ever-so-selfishly booked him out for the whole evening so alas, today has been taken over with the parents, sister and sister's boyfriend (why not ruin all of their Valentine's days too eh?!). To some this may sound ideal, after all it does eliminate the pressure of having to have a fully-forced romantic evening, but if i had my own way tonight would be spent like this:

Get home to a waiting hot, sudsy bath, preferably with a glass of something alcoholic, wine would do.

This would be followed by something extremely unhealthy, perhaps a pizza - something we can share keeping the romance alive and all!

During feeding time we would be watching a rom-com, you can't beat a rom-com! The man's favourite is Failure to Launch (I know!) so perhaps that would do.

As it's Valentine's we would of course have a chocolatey, gooey dessert too. Or perhaps some strawberries? either/or.

All the while we would of course be drinking wine too.

I think this plan sounds brilliant, and it's of course easily transferable if you're on your own today - perfect!

But no, curry and a cake it is. The curry will be good I suppose, the cake I made myself last night...this will not be so good (at least the mother-in-law won't ask me to make one again though!)

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! xxx

The Art of Love

It's almost here - Valentine's day is tomorrow and Moet & Chandon have created a gift pack for the occasion, the ideal last minute gift.

With a bottle of Moet's delicious Rosé bubbly and a marker pen you're all set to make an individual and creative gift that, if the recipient is anything like me, they'll keep forever. Whether as a doorstop (filled with sand) or a candle holder taking centre stage on the dining table the bottle is for keeps, even after the contents have been drunk!

Moet & Chandon surprisingly go hand-in-hand with graffiti

and if all else fails - cook! (M&S have got a Dine in for £20, you can't go wrong)

Gift idea that's a cut above

Mr S&S decided to treat himself to a spot of pampering yesterday in the form of a hair cut, shave and a bit of a massage chucked in for good measure. Now this may sound like extreme metrosexuality and, to be fair, it kind of is but he managed to macho it up a bit as this is no ordinary barbershop-cum-beauty salon, oh no, this is Ted's Grooming Room, the barbershop arm of high street store Ted Baker.

After the full 'Ted' service he came home looking very dapper and chilled and proceeded to give me a full run down of the experience - Hair wash and cut followed by a cut-throat shave. The latter consisted of his face being mummified with a hot towel while his neck, shoulders, arms and hands were massaged to within an inch of pure relaxation then out came the open blade for the closest shave of his life.

Ted's Grooming Room

The pure joy Mr. S&S seemed to get from such sheer man-pampering led me to think how perfect a gift this would be for the modern day bloke about town - thus I'm sharing the wisdom with you.

Ted's Grooming Room has three locations in London - Cheapside, Holborn & Mayfair.

The Full 'Ted' Service is a steal at £36 but there are more options shown on their website - Ted's Grooming Room

For some modern old school grooming this is definitelythe place to go.