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Valentine's Day

March 2024

  • Richard and Jeannette Smith in 1969. The background imagery shows The Scenic Railway and The Big Wheel Of Colour rides at Dreamland amusement park in Margate, England

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: ‘I thought to myself, if she can go through all that, she can get through anything’

    When Jeannette came by the social security office to claim a payment, Richard Smith was struck by her sunny and cheerful demeanour. It would go down as his ‘best day’s work’

19 February 2024

  • Ice-cream cone being sold from a van

    Brief letters
    Has the ice-cream van cometh too early?

    Brief letters: Ice-creams in February | Valentine’s cards | Cutting hedgerows | Olivier as Othello

17 February 2024

  • Man sitting on the sofa, woman lying with her head on his lap

    True romance
    True romance: how to keep the love alive when one of you has a chronic illness

  • Man and woman walking along the beach

    True romance
    True romance: how to keep the love alive when you retire

16 February 2024

  • Whitegates Care Centre

    Relatives decry undertakers’ Valentine’s cards sent to care home residents

  • A woman looking stressed and a woman looking worried

    True romance
    True romance: how to keep the love alive when your partner is burnt out at work

15 February 2024

  • Man and woman messing about on the beach

    True romance
    True romance: how to keep the love alive when your kids have left home

  • Man and woman arguing

    True romance
    True romance: how to keep the love alive when you fight

14 February 2024

  • A woman in Valentine's-themed clothes sits at a table and stamps cards surrounded by Valentine's Day decorations and crates full of letters.

    Colorado city of Loveland is hub of postal activity each Valentine’s Day

    Volunteers in the ‘Sweetheart City’ re-mail tens of thousands of cards with holiday-appropriate postmark each year
  • Germany's Maike Halbisch in action during the women's 20m semi final

    Photos of the day
    High dive, valentines and astronauts: photos of the day – Wednesday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

    • ‘Flatmates put a tenner in her card’: readers on their most memorable Valentine’s Days

    • Shock of the old
      Shock of the old: nine shrivelled hearts to celebrate the day of love

    • ‘He always deseeds my tomatoes’: 17 little gestures that make you feel loved

13 February 2024

  • Red roses in a wicker basket

    No rose for you this Valentine’s Day? Solidarity – we are the 99%

    Briohny Doyle
    I still can’t watch The Bachelor without feeling both disavowal and yearning that stem from my high school flower drive
  • Parents playing ball with their young daughter

    True romance
    True romance: how to keep the love alive when kids come along

    Even the strongest relationships can suffer when children come along, but little gestures can make a world of difference. Maybe start on the sofa?
  • A display of red roses at Covent Garden Flower Market in London, Britain, 13 February 2024.

    Tell us: share your past Valentine’s Day stories

    We’d like to hear about your best – and worst – Valentine’s Day memories

12 February 2024

  • The judges with boxes and bags of supermarket chocolates

    Taste test
    Australian supermarket chocolate gifts taste test: Aldi treats leave our experts ‘speechless’

    For Valentine’s Day Tristan Lutze tries nine brands of gift-worthy chocolates to learn that elephants are not romantic – and desiccated coconut lingers forever

11 February 2024

  • Emma Beddington

    I still love my husband after 30 years. But I have no idea how we’ve stayed together

    Emma Beddington
    He is emotionally generous; I look at the world as if it’s trying to steal my handbag. Yet we’re about to celebrate another decade, writes Emma Beddington
  • Illustration by Observer Design of a heart-shaped record on a turntable.

    All you need is love songs: 12 novelists pick their favourite romantic tracks

    Writers who know a thing or two about matters of the heart on the love songs they adore – from Sondheim’s bittersweet portrait of a romance sceptic to Roberta Flack’s timeless expression of hope
  • SUR Chocolates sesame alfajor

    Notes on chocolate
    Notes on chocolate: Valentine’s treats for your sweetheart

    These are wonderful for the special person in your life, but also delicious at any time of year
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