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Just found this connecting wall on a scrap of paper in my pocket. I know I created it as a reminder about something... I just can't for the life of me remember what!

Can you help me recall what the four correctly matched groups of four were supposed to prompt me about?
BOARD BOOST FOUR GAME
IFF LION OCCURS PENGUIN
ROMAN SHARP SIXTEEN SORE
SWAMP TASER TAXI UPLIT
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This is a reminder of

What to get for Valentine's Day!

As the categories are:

Flowers, a Card, Chocolate and Candles!

The groups:

Anagrams of flowers:

UPLIT -> TULIP
SORE -> ROSE
OCCURS -> CROCUS
TASER -> ASTER

Card____:

CARD-BOARD
CARD-GAME
CARD-IFF
CARD-SHARP

Types of Chocolate Bar

LION
BOOST
PENGUIN
TAXI

____Candles

FOUR-CANDLES
SIXTEEN-CANDLES
ROMAN-CANDLES
SWAMP-CANDLES

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    $\begingroup$ Ah dang you both are too quick just figured out the answer !! I think only us Brits would find this quickly. $\endgroup$
    – PDT
    Commented Feb 14 at 16:48
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    $\begingroup$ @PDT With the third category here, the one-word British ones seem to lend themselves more nicely to a connecting wall than the US ones, which often have much more giveaway names! $\endgroup$
    – Stiv
    Commented Feb 14 at 17:14
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    $\begingroup$ @Stiv added some wiki links, just did anything I had to google myself but feel free to edit in any other links you think would be appropriate! $\endgroup$
    – Beastly Gerbil
    Commented Feb 14 at 17:16
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    $\begingroup$ I think that this should have the check mark as most useful to future readers (and it saves me from fiddling with cut and paste on my phone) $\endgroup$
    – Daniel S
    Commented Feb 14 at 17:23
  • $\begingroup$ @DanielS honestly don’t mind either way, both good answers :) $\endgroup$
    – Beastly Gerbil
    Commented Feb 14 at 17:54
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It’s not too late to

get ready for Valentine’s Day!

Categories

Anagrams of flowers OCCURS SORE TASER UPLIT

Brands of chocolate BOOST LION PENGUIN TAXI

Prefixes for card BOARD GAME IFF SHARP

Words to precede candles FOUR SIXTEEN ROMAN SWAMP

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    $\begingroup$ Think you sniped me to the final answer, I finished mine off whilst your original post only had two categories, but think you still got all 4 just before I posted, gg :) $\endgroup$
    – Beastly Gerbil
    Commented Feb 14 at 16:40
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    $\begingroup$ Nicely done. I was typing on a phone on the train and fat thumbed the “post” button. Have an upvote for having better typing skills. $\endgroup$
    – Daniel S
    Commented Feb 14 at 16:42
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    $\begingroup$ Ha! Not really a fair comparison then if I'm on laptop :P $\endgroup$
    – Beastly Gerbil
    Commented Feb 14 at 16:44
  • $\begingroup$ @BeastlyGerbil and DanielS: Well done both - these are indeed the intended categories... If anyone feels like adding some Wikipedia links to some of the more difficult-to-grasp connections (e.g. IFF, SWAMP, FOUR and SIXTEEN) that would make for a nicely rounded out answer... Thanks :) $\endgroup$
    – Stiv
    Commented Feb 14 at 17:12
  • $\begingroup$ Hmmm. I guess this is a UK puzzle. I've never heard of any of those chocolate bars, nor Four-Candles, nor connecting walls for that matter! $\endgroup$
    – bubbleking
    Commented Feb 16 at 17:26

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