Realgrumpytyke

By Realgrumpytyke

Valentine's Day - hearts and cake

Valentine's Day (more correctly Saint Valentine's Day) was not celebrated in Romania when I lived there because there is no St Valentine in the Orthodox calendar. It may have been celebrated as the day of a relatively minor saint in the Romanian Roman Catholic communities but I never came across it. I expect that Western commercialisation of traditional feast days is rife on 14 February in Romania now too - a friend of Petronela's messaged, in Romanian of course, "the supermarkets are full of 'rahat' ('crap' is a polite translation)", as with chocolate eggs for Easter.
The real Romanian 'Lovers' Day' is ten days later - 'Dragobete' (the day when the birds are betrothed and begin to build their nests) is celebrated on 24 February but it has nothing to do with saints. In traditional culture it signals the beginning of Spring and young men and women collect early vernal flowers, eg ghiocei (snowdrops), and give them to each other with a song. It's a lovely festival.
However, we're in England now so I cannot let St Valentine's Day pass without some gesture, so I made a cake for my love. It's a more special day than St Valentine for us: it's an anniversary - 17 years 'together' this year.
In fact it's not really a cake but a large, 'perfectly formed' chocolate fudge brownie, because I know that is what she prefers.
The 31 hearts around it? Well, there's one for each of my female (more than 50% of the total) follower/following blippers. But, any lady blipper is welcome to take one; I'd follow you all if I could.
Some of you give us a musical offering with some of their blips (and I've made some exciting discoveries from them). So here's one from me - Love's Dream with Lang Lang. I hope you are all having a loving, lovely day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15Ly9ZAfOY
By the way, 'our song' (playing as I write this) is sung by, for me, one of the three greatest guitarists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUSzL2leaFM

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