Last night we had a few friends over for a quiet cheese & port night. Lee and I have come to accept that we're old farts so we suggested that our friends should avoid the over-priced/over-done/overly-saccharine restaurants on Valentine's day for a night at our place sampling different cheeses. My boss gives me a bottle of port for Christmas every year so we had three bottles of the stuff!

Lee had to be at Stratford upon Avon for work so we picked up three types of cheeses at the Paxton & Whitfield cheese shop while we were there. It's a fabulous store with a tremendous selection of cheeses.



We ended up buying some gjetost, a Norwegian fudge-like cheese, some Little Wallop, a tasty goat cheese made by Blur's Alex James and some rather stinky (but tasty) Baltic cheese.

I was rather naughty and treated myself to this slate cheeseboard while waiting for Lee to finish up with his work.



Our friends brought a whole bunch of other types and it was great sampling such a range of different cheeses. Lee/Martha Stewart made the little flags to identify the cheese, which was rather cute and actually rather practical.



We will probably be having crackers and cheese for dinner for the next few nights as there were so many left-overs! Not that I'm complaing really! :)

Is it wrong to buy one's husband a Valentine's card with a compelling desire to frame said card immediately after 14th February?


I bought this sweet little card from here.

No matter where we live - the UK, Canada, a small 2-bed flat, a house in the suburbs - my home will be where Lee is.