This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life

A number of weeks back teams from the UK have resettling in Nagoya, I hear successfully this evening they have a "Valentines day, death by choco, masquerade ball"

Our J workforce is in for some "shock and awe", well, maybe not actually, still a number of the staff are same sex couples, flamboyant, three I am told will be in drag,

Auntie Samantha, Uncle Colgate, named after a tooth paste, with back up from sister sludge.

The holiday is a chance to consider just how rich, diverse and beneficial every form of love is in the human experience, whether it comes from your family, friends, pets, neighbours or community.

Indeed light the touch paper and stand well back.

Purest love of all of course offered only by children.

Got an old man in failing health where I live, who's married but no kids, how does he spend his final days?

Waits inside the building entrance, tries to curry attention of Mothers with young children. Sad and creepy if you think about it, but he does understand the purest love.

Love is in the air. Valentine Day is an inspiration to the young and to the young at heart across cultures and traditions worldwide. On 14th Feb, year after year people of goodwill consider themselves privileged to wake up and spread the glad tidings of love and friendship among fellow human beings, their companion species, trees, and flowers. Visiting the sick, the elderly and lonely, the orphans, feeding the homeless and the hungry are some of the sublime acts of love displayed by several genuine lovers of life here, there, and everywhere.