Soon to be valentine’s day again, hip hip hooray.  I like the sentiment, I think that lavishing your loved ones with attention is a great idea.  It’s just sad that we need a special day of the year to encourage people to do it.

I was listening to a podcast this morning (You look nice today) where the guys on it were talking about their Christmas present buying methods.  Now this is a comedy podcast, so this may not necessarily be true….  However, one of the guys put forward that he and his wife buy each other nothing and Christmas, birthdays, Valentines etc.  Instead, at random times for no reason at all they would buy each other gifts.  This is a brilliant idea!  Everyone loves a surprise, and nice as it is to get gifts on dedicated days it’s all rather predictable, but you can’t fail to be touched when someone buys you something or does something for you out of the blue.

Mrs Tom and I haven’t ever dined out together for valentine’s.  Thankfully she appreciates that restaurants will server poor quality food (because they ram in as many people as they can and can’t possibly provide good service to them all, sadly even the nicer ones), and charge far more than they usually do.  I’m not going to harp on about this point, because most people know this and it’s been written about thousands of times.  However, there do seem to be a lot of people who don’t seem to understand this, and they are the people filling the restaurants.  Let’s call them….. “idiots.”

Mrs Tom and I are heading out tonight for dinner (if Mrs Tom remembered to book it – romantic aren’t I).  It is a special valentine’s menu, but it’s at one of our favourite restaurants – The Indian Princess in Margate.  Let’s not say too much about Margate.  Yes, that’s about enough.  The Indian Princess however is exquisite.  It is a gourmet Indian restaurant of a quality rarely found outside of London.  It is very well reviewed and I’ve enjoyed the food thoroughly every time I’ve been.  Even Adam Curry and John Dvorak would enjoy it, and that is saying something.  Perhaps they’d like to drop by one time and take me there and I’ll show them.  Just a thought.

I wish people would treat each other the way they do on valentine’s day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays and all those other special days every day of the year.  Then maybe we wouldn’t have to listen to Wizzard every Christmas singing about it being Christmas every day (although I do actually quite like the song).