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it's actually my first time i'll be

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properly celebrating valentine's day i

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believe in the idea

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i just don't like the way it's presented

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necessarily why should just one day of

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the year

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be the day that you celebrate romance i

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have

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you know done things on valentine's day

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before but i just i do find it a bit

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cheesy actually it's a bit of a cop-out

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really yeah i kind of like the idea

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still it's a nice it's a nice way to

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kind of you know take pause and

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celebrate something that you probably

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should celebrate i often get flowers

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where he's popped out for milk and he

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comes back with milk and flowers yeah

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hello welcome to easy english so in a

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few days time it will be valentine's day

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now unfortunately i'm in brighton which

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recently placed ninth in the least

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romantic places in the uk nevertheless i

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want to know what the people of brighton

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do for valentine's day if they do

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anything at all and what romance really

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means to them before we start please do

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what are your thoughts on valentine's

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day

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well we don't actually celebrate

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valentine's day

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because we just

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don't agree with the commerciality

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behind it

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it's why should just one day of the year

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be the day that you celebrate romance it

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should be

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throughout the year and little things

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that you do for your partner on a

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regular basis show that you

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your love and affection for them and not

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just

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um

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overblown

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uh things like flowers and chocolates

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what are your thoughts in general on

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valentine's day let's start with that

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do you want to go first

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yeah i shall go first um

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yeah are you doing anything for

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valentine's day

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i'm not no no

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okay

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and what are your thoughts generally on

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valentine's day my thoughts generally

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um

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it's a bit of a cop-out really it's a

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bit of like uh

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it's a bit of like a um

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money-making scheme right yeah yeah

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what what why why though

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uh

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because like i love my girlfriend every

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day i don't like it's not like i need to

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buy her a present like one day a year

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yeah and just

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feed companies money

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buying them presents and so then in

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terms of like

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gestures of romance how what how does

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how do you do it

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i'm not i'm not good on flowers i have

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to be honest no he's not actually i

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think i've done it once or twice in 48

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years really but you say this like it's

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a negative thing oh i'd love flowers

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i'll remember that

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what are your thoughts on uh valentine's

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day um well i'm afraid i'm a bit of an

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old cynic with valentine's day and i

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just i do see it as a commercial

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opportunity to just like get people to

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spend lots of money which is um

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not really necessary because i guess

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every day should be a gesture of love

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and uh

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but saying that um

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i have

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you know done things on valentine's day

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before but i just i do find it a bit

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cheesy actually um

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so and a bit disingenuous and

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if i'm perfectly honest just to kind of

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you know go all out on one day and

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so

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yeah i've got nothing

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personally against it it's fine and you

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know whatever generates love is can only

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be a good thing but i think

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generally speaking you know

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i guess for me i've never never really

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celebrated valentine's day mostly

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because for a while there wasn't anyone

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to celebrate with until i found you

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and

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we haven't really done a huge amount

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since mainly because it feels a bit

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overly americanized and you know forced

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yeah

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but

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yeah i kind of like the idea still it's

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a nice it's a nice way to kind of you

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know take pause and celebrate something

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that you probably should celebrate yeah

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and how about you what do you feel about

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it yeah yeah i mean

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yeah it feels a bit disingenuous at

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times but i um

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you know i'm

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especially after a couple of years of

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being

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locked inside not being able to do

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anything it's a good excuse to just

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go out and have dinner and

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celebrate like that i'm not into all of

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the

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all of the sort of big

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card

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things but i i try to i i try to space

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that out throughout the year i hope that

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i do a good enough job of sort of

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expressing my affection

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generally that i don't need to do it all

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on one one day

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so

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i would say i'm not a huge fan of one

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day of the year being

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dedicated to expressing

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love i believe

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love should be expressed every day of

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the year when was the last time each of

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you did something nice for the other for

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the other one

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oh my gosh

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um well it was a couple of weeks ago

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that you went to

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the local shop for

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uh milk milk and bread and came out came

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back with milk and bread and flowers

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yeah and that was just

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a spontaneous i've brought these for you

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and they weren't just your

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normal

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garage style tiny bunch yeah yeah they

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were a really nice bunch of flowers

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right yeah yeah so it wasn't like a late

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night no no no um

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petrol station purchase no no okay and

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then the other way around what was the

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last time you remember

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i think it was yeah because because of i

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i've got i've got uh

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celiac disease so i have to be very

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careful with what i eat so after a

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special diet

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so that's affected both of us but susan

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goes out of her way to find recipes on

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the internet that she can then make so

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that i can't have a mr kipling's baker

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tart but she can make her own

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which are gluten-free and that's for me

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that's

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that's uh expression of of love and

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affection doing something nice for me

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because he absolutely loves them i love

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bakery

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it's actually my first time i'll be

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properly celebrating valentine's day

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this year so uh yeah how are you going

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to do something i found out yeah i'm

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going to do something i found out

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recently that i've got to ask her still

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even though

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she is my girlfriend i'm expecting a

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baby in april but uh

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but uh yeah i'm gonna ask i have asked

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about i've given her some flowers but uh

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i don't know exactly what i want to do

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right now but i'm very spontaneous you

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know okay i'm pretty sure it'll just be

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like the night before and just like get

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a few things but actually she's right

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here so maybe i shouldn't

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don't say too much

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when was last time we did something nice

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for each other something small or big

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doesn't matter

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well

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probably your birthday we we do

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something we go out don't we yeah and we

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we we have a meal or something like that

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don't we yeah we just do nice things

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every day okay and it's

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there's no maybe do you surprise each

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other or do you plan it with each other

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oh i

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more than you yes yes he says very good

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on surprise no i'm not very good on

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surprise i have to ask my daughter to

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drop hints if i need it and then i get

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them

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when is the last time that you did

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something and you had something done for

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you like a romantic job

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actually two days ago and

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it was my well it was my husband's

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birthday last week but

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we couldn't celebrate at the time

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because of work and unwell and etc so we

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went for i got my mum to look after our

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kids and we went for a big walk

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on the downs and there's a local

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vineyard

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close by and i called the guy whilst we

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were walking and asked if we could stop

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by and buy a bottle of champagne which

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is made on our like doorstep wow which

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and he did and we went and sat on the

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top of the hill and drank champagne and

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watched the sunset i'm trying to figure

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out are you going to do something this

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in that ten days time

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oh i don't know really we haven't

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thought about it

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like we haven't even thought about

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tomorrow yet but i i guess we could like

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i think for us we end up like last year

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we did end up going out for a meal but

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it wasn't on valentine's day itself

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just because it it gets so busy to book

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you know all the restaurants are totally

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full like a month in advance so

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i think we're a bit of those last minute

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people so

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we might just you know maybe a couple of

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days afterwards or before we even just

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end up doing something whether it's

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coming down and having chips on the

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beach or or finding a nice restaurant to

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go out for a meal how do you do romantic

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gestures then if not on one day

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i i think romantic maybe is uh

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is a sort of umbrella

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phrase really because i think random

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acts of kindness can be

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um

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seen as romantic gestures you know they

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don't have to necessarily

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uh be linked to

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love in the

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regular way that we think of it it can

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be empathy kindness

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things like that i'll give you one

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example the other day i was at the bus

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stop

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and uh there was a mom and a dad and a

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little girl and the little girl was

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going home to her dad for the weekend

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and the mom

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the mom said

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oh i must get you a pair of gloves soon

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but she was she was not going to see her

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little girl for the weekend because she

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was spending the weekend with her father

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right so i quickly dashed into the

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pharmacy and bought a pair of little

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gloves and then i i quickly ran back to

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the bus stop before the bus arrived

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i gave her the gloves because i just

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thought well

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i like having warm hands so

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i don't know when the mom was going to

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get around to getting the gloves but i

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just thought well at least she'll have

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gloves for the weekend

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so things like that i mean i just that's

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lovely i just think maybe valentine's

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day has just become a hyped up thing

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where it's focused on one day of the

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year and i don't think that's

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necessarily a good thing

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let us know in the comments below your

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plans for valentine's day if you have

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any plans at all

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and what romance really means to you

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and we'll see you next week

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bye

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