Model & singer Nadia Forde (top and with ukulele player Andrew Robinson (above)

What have  they done with all the padlocks?

This morning.

The Hapenny Bridge, Dublin, adorned with over 5,000 red roses from Aldi Ireland.

Sasko writes:

 Tomorrow, on Valentine’s Day itself, Dublin City Council will be handing out thousands of  Aldi flowers and Irish chocolates on three different Dublin bridges– the Ha’penny Bridge, Capel Street Bridge and the Millennium Bridge… ‘

The council’s Dublin at Valentine’s’ have also created an Alternative Love Trail around the city. Guerilla Love Poetry will also feature on the three bridges, and will see poets, performers and wordsmiths wooing the public with their love poems and sonnets….

Aldi Ireland

Aldi Ireland (Facebook)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Mmmf.

Eoin Higgins writes:

I was six when Geraldine (we sat beside each other in Junior Infants) surreptitiously dropped her envelope of love declarations into my schoolbag. She was six-and-a-half. An older woman. I remember finding the card (above) when I got home from school later that day, delighting in her choo-choo-choosing me.

…There are other Valentine’s cards in my biscuit tin of romance, but Geraldine’s is still the one I treasure most. Not just for the precociousness of the verse contained within, but for the fact there is any verse at all…

Read on: A Boy’s First Valentine (Eoin Higgins, Image.ie)

Hard to resist, in fairness.

Valentine’s Day personal ads from the Irish Times covering the years 1972-1989.

Alas poor Madge.

Mmmf.

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus