This Valentine's, fall in love with your home again, via Electric Ireland Quick Quote

seany76

violets are blue roses are redoh how this day fills me with dread
each year i wait for a card on the mat
hopes high but always squashed flat
a ring at the door and im up like a shot
a gift for me no wrong door the postman has got
now dont get me wrong i like to be single
i love to go out and in the pub mingle
have friends who with me would love to get away
just not in my bed permanently stay
so electric ireland i hope this year you will by my valentine
i'll check out your app while  in the radisson i will dine

orl

Electric Ireland: Una wrote: »

Hi folks,

Home is where the heart is... and every so often, a home can become a little cold and in need of TLC and warming up!

Electric Ireland's Home Energy team offers a range of services to make your home cosier and more energy-efficient, for example: insulation, heating upgrade, renewable technologies.

A facility to obtain a cost quote quickly and easily is here - in the shape of Quick Quote: available now as a simple-to-use computer app and already as part of our Appliance Calculator app.




To mark St Valentine's Day and the introduction of our handy Quick Quote desktop, we are offering, here on Boards.ie, a Radisson Blu hotel voucher worth €300. It can be used in literally any Radisson Blu hotel, and is valid for 12 months.



Radisson Blu St Helen's, Dublin


To enter the competition, it's very simple and in keeping with the time that's in it - just post directly to this thread any memorable Valentine's moments: it could be... the first Valentine's card you ever received, the first card you sent, a particularly memorable (for the right or wrong reasons!) Valentine's meal, the moment when Cupid's arrow hit you... Anything – so long as you bear in mind that it's a family competition.

The competition runs until this time next week; terms and conditions here.

We're anticipating some very soppy, sentimental posts - and hooray for that!

Best of luck, and enjoy!

Regards,

Electric Ireland Boards.ie team

Every life needs a bit of mystery. I was never the kind of girl to get loads of cards. In Leaving Cert I got two - one was from a creep but to this day I don't know who the other one was from. It was a sweet  and sincere message....and for some reason, I don't think it was from my mother/aunt/usual suspects. I hope I never find out who sent it. It was just such a wonderful feeling to see the surprise from the other girls in the class and to think little ol' me had a secret admirer.

.BrianJM

I've still got a card, including envelope with real lipstick kiss, from about 14 years ago.
I have never found out for certain who sent it, and I'm still available should she still have the desire.
Call me.

Mr Benevolent

My first Valentine's day in Venice. Ah memories...

rcazzy

Memories of panicking wondering if everything is right and it just works out, nearly every time.

zinzan

First valentine's with my other half.. she went all out , card and present, dinner... I told her I don't celebrate hallmark day....
(Got away with it though - Still together!)

leinsterdude

gettin a card from my gran.... :) she gave me an ace of hearts in an envelope....awwww

p15574

We normally avoid the commercialism, but there was one time I sent her roses to be delivered at work - she was mortified (but probably secretly pleased too...)

warrenaldo

I wrote a short story in the style of Cinderalla and the ugly sisters. 
She was Cinderalla, her sisters were the ugly sisters and her mam was the evil stepmother.
I rescued her from the horrible existance and we all lived happily ever after.

It went down great with my wife - not so great with the in-laws.

Stanton82

My First valentine's day was Feb 14th, 2001; 12 years ago. I was in Senior Secondary Class 2 and I was dating my first love back then- Joan (not real name). Joan was my everything. This was the period of west life and I had absolutely no hesitation in unashamedly plagiarizing all of their songs to send her love poems every day- ''and its like flying without wings, you're my special thing, I'm flying without wings... and that's the joy you bring.... I'm flying without wings'' -I must have written a hundred versions of that song. To me back then nothing surpassed the joy I felt when I handed her a sheet from my exercise book the morning after a looonnng night and she smiled. 

Feb 14th, 2001, I had emptied all my live's savings so I could get Joan a card, a box of chocolate and a perfume (I've always been one for style- alright admittedly the perfume was the cheapest I could muster back then-and the chocolate- , but it was the intent behind it!) I remember I had to borrow some extra cash from my wing man and best friend Tony but sacrificing for Joan back then was typical- she was 'the one'! For this particular valentine's day, which was to be our first, I arranged with Tony to get her over to one of the empty class rooms after school. I'd be with my cards and presents and a poem I had specially composed for her (oh the moment had to be magical) I was also hoping to steal my first kiss! (I did read a lot of Mills and Boom as a child- shoot me).


Tony did come to meet in the class room quite alright, but only with a note from Joan- ''Dear [Insert my real name here] I'm sorry but its over . You always treat me as an egg, but I can also be as hot as a cucumber''! It took me sometime to understand the note (most especially the cucumber aspect of it)! Eventually though i found out she was shagging a college student who lived around her house. Never quite recovered. Tony ate all the chocolate and I still hate cucumbers till date.

The Big Red Button

I remember in fifth class making a handmade Valentines card for my crush, signing it 'Anonymous', and sneaking in to the classroom at break-time to leave it in the boy's schoolbag.

However I accidentally left it in his friend's schoolbag instead - a boy who I absolutely hated - and, even worse, I was seen leaving it there, so everyone thought I fancied the wrong guy. 

Tar.Aldarion

I'm just happy that for valentines I have the best girl in the world. Somebody that is wonderful and makes me happy. Of course valentines in particular is not a special day where you only let them know that, so I suggest you guys let your partners know today and every day. :-)

donegal.

first met eyes with my now wife at a party on valentines day.

Beagslife

I don't go in for it myself. Still, we're not averse to a nice Radisson Blu romantic break on any other weekend of the year!

Mountjoy Mugger

Sent my first Valentine Day card when 11. Recipient never spoke to me again.

NEVER sign your name!

TeddyRuxpin

When I was in fourth class primary school, I was given extra homework as punishment for making the one girl in my class that I liked, cry on Valentine's Day.

She cried because I gave her a Valentine's card, along with a love letter (I spent all week working on) telling her how I thought she was the most beautiful girl in school.

I found out afterwards that she didn't like me and that's why she cried; turned out, she fancied my best friend (we both sat across the table from her). Our teacher kept me inside during lunch to explain that it wasn't nice to make girls cry and I should have known that she liked my friend. After lunch break, I was made move seats to the other side of the classroom, away from her and my best friend for the rest of the year. I was then made me write an essay about what happened for homework and had to get it signed by my mother.

An absolutely horrible, humiliating experience. The girl told everyone about the love letter and I was ridiculed about it for years to come (both in school and at home). I'm 30 years old now and I haven't been able to speak to her since. My friends & family still remind me of it when they run into one of her family members. It was also the last Valentine's card I gave to anyone until I met my fiancée four years ago.

hoodwinked

Every year the standard unsigned card would be found on the mat in the hall, when i was 14 there were two, utterly confused i asked my mum why she sent two, and she responded she didn't know who the second was from, after that she stopped sending them but still a card came...

this went on until i was 18, even though my address had changed the card came anyway, 

one night i was out with an old friend and i don't know how but the cards came up, he let slip it was him sending them to me all along, i asked why and he told me he saw what my family was like and wanted me to know someone loved me,  we agreed never to mention them again (we tried dating at 16 and realised we were better as friends)  and are still good friends until this day.

RUSTEDCORE

the fat dude in the nappy running through temple bar with bow in hand while being chased by roughly 10 women who wanted to rip his nappy off..:pac: .. It was a sight to behold until the women succeded :eek:  and I almost lost my 30 or so vicious valentine shots:(

dak

The delight on the face of my now wife of 21years when we were students and  I arrived  unannounced up from Galway on Valentines day and met her in the rain with a single Rose ( All I could afford then)  when she was on her way to get the bus home crossing  Butt Bridge  !

neonitrix

My favorite valentine memory walking the streets of Paris on a rainy afternoon, after visiting the Eiffel tower.  The game is who can speak the most French and considering neither of us spoke French everyone was the winner except the poor french people we were testing our language skills on lol.

ed

ciaglen

In primary school one of the boys in my class brought me flowers on Valentine's Day and asked me to marry him. In an extreme overreaction to my embarrassment, I acted repulsed and threw the flowers in the garbage in front of everybody. I really hurt his feelings, and I still feel really, really bad about it (Sorry, Matt). Then in college, my boyfriend at the time got me nothing, but after I gave him the cold shoulder, he went to the vending machine and brought back a couple of stale candy bars and left them on my bed. Karma is a bitch, but I still ate them.

Psychobabble

Best every Valentine's Day was three years ago, when we found out we were going to be parents for the first time!

MissFlitworth

Accidentally locking my boyfriend in my house and nearly making him miss a job interview.  Having to cycle home from work to let him out & looking like Medusa with mad hair and a mad face when I got to the door.  Valentines dinner that night was...strained & full of pointed comments

Rant1

The first Valentines card I received from my current girlfriend was made by her Mam on her computer. It had a golf buggy and a bouquet of flowers on it. She couldn't look at me when she handed it over and her face was roaring red with embarrassment. My sides nearly burst with laughter when I opened it and it took me a good half hour to compose myself.

phantom60

The card I got last year - it's the last Valentine's card I've ever received.

elfy4eva

At 14 Getting caught putting a valentines card into the
letterbox of the girl I was sweet on. Thinking I was
a little heart-throb. Still get slagged
about it to this day good memories though. :')

maximoose

Best Valentine's day ever was that time Electric Ireland gave me a Radisson Blu voucher.

2ndcoming

Getting cheesy cards for my sister when I was a kid and trying to make them as convincing fakes as possible to put a smile on her face.

Fun memories of going to a not so exciting Crazy Golf in a warehouse in Naas a few years ago with my gf as well. Thankfully it didn't put her off, but I think a weekend in a nice hotel would be more up her street!

Esto Fidelis

My first memory was getting a card when I was 10 and to this day i cannot figure out who it was (probably my big sis)

Boardnashea

This year I remembered to get a card in time. :-)