Valentine’s day is fast approaching and preparations are well under way, with stacks of boxes waiting to be filled with wonderfully romantic gifts. Our new Valentine specials are up and are going down well, we’ve already had some orders for the cool single rose treats.

Now that InterRose.co.uk supplies the whole of the UK with a shower of wonderful Valentine’s Day gifts every year, people often forget its marvellous history:

1. Jack Valentine

This is a rather strange tradition from Norfolk. This basically involves a father christmas type figure leaving presents for both children and adults. There was also sometimes an opposite character who would play pranks on someone, often by teasing them with a present and then snatching it away. We wouldn’t advise reviving this tradition with your Valentine, we know our gifts are tempting but you need to resist the urge to keep them for yourself!

2. The Night of Sevens

This is an old Chinese celebration similar to Valentine’s day which occurs on a day when it is said that two stars usually separated by the milky way cross this ‘river’ and meet. It seems that it to involved girls practising ‘domestic arts’ in the hope of finding a good husband so it’s no wonder it has changed a bit in modern times.

3. Friends day

Some countries (including finland) use the day for the celebration of friendship more than romantic love, so there are a few places in the world where you could get away with watching the [insert favourite sport here] come the fourteenth. Whether you are celebrating friends or a partner, they are sure to appreciate it if you win our valentine’s day competition by simply telling us what you think “T.R.R.S.” should stand for.

4. Lupercalia

This was an ancient pagan Roman festival of fertility, celebrating the mythical she wolf which mothered Romulus and Remus; the former being the founder of Rome in legend. This festival occurred on the thirteenth to fifteenth of February, overlapping the later celebration of valentine’s day. It also involved slapping people with blood covered strips of sacrificed goat hide though so things have changed a bit.

5. Courtly love

It is widely accepted that the association of Valentine’s day with romantic love began in the middle ages with the idea of courtly love where men and women were supposed to show subtle admiration for each other while staying ‘just friends’,  but often ended up leading to more ;p. Before this it is likely to have been a more general celebration of all kinds of love, including family.

6. Mail

In the eighteen hundreds the way Valentine’s cards and gifts were given changed and people began sending them by mail, beginning the trend of sending them anonymously (as well as, shall we say, less reserved messages).

7. Red roses

Roses have long been symbolic of love, with various cultures using them at weddings and other events.

Originally the white rose was used as the symbol of (particularly new) love as it symbolised purity and innocence which were expected at the time. Various legends from around Europe in particular involve roses changing between white and red, with red representing passion, possibly inspired by blushing. The red rose became more popular when people began to secretively give them as gifts, allowing them to use a colour with a less subtle message.

8. Saint Valentine

This is a bit of a mysterious one as no-one actually knows for sure who he was. There are actually records of three saints named Valentine associated with the date of February the fourteenth, maybe they are really a trio of romantic superheroes!

All we know for sure is that the legend involves a man defying the will of an emperor and risking (well… receiving) death to marry young couples. You might not be willing to go that far to be romantic this valentines day but I’m sure your Valentine won’t hold it against you, and will find an “I Love You”  balloon just as thoughtful.

9. Valentine cards

Originally, Valentine greetings often took the form of a spoken message or a gift but some time after fourteen hundred written messages began to appear. These eventually gave way to elaborate cards with lace and ribbons, often having a personal message added to the inside.

10. Electronic valentines

Want to send someone a gift this Valentine’s day but don’t want to ruin the surprise by suspiciously asking for their address just before? You could always send virtual roses completely free! Embrace the future and enter the matrix.

Hello mere Mortels,

We are only just emerging from Mount Olympus (rather hung over of course) from our 10th Eros Day celebrations held on August the 14th 2011. It was one Tartarus of a Party that’s for sure and next year everyone who entered below is invited :-

Twitter Name: @pseudosocial
I Love Eros Day Because… we get cakes brought into the office by the boss (still testing btw)

Name: nick
I Love Eros Day Because… It’s exactly 6 months after St Valentines Day and its exactly a million times more romantic!!!

Twitter Name: @interpetal
I Love Eros Day Because… it reminds me of a rose petal… soft and delicate!

Name: E Scott
I Love Eros Day Because… every day, all year round, rain or shine they deliever a smile right to your door as soon as they knock on your door

Name: Julie Gartland
I Love Eros Day Because… Only a true believer in love can change the world.

Name: E Scott
I Love Eros Day Because… valentines day may have been and gone but love lasts all year long

Twitter Name: @interhamper
I Love Eros Day Because… like a hamper, Eros Day is full of lots of delicious goodies

Twitter Name: @todayss
I Love Eros Day Because… its something good worth celebrating

Twitter Name: @rainiexiexie
I Love Eros Day Because… Its about people coming together, and new lifes starting

Twitter Name: @deeblythe
I Love Eros Day Because… Intense beauty in each stem, takes me back to childhood and my rose loving Nan again.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… a lovely I used to know had a bronze statue of him and whenever I was in its present love just flowed.

Name: Nathan Whitington
I Love Eros Day Because… !

Twitter Name: @bev_metallica
I Love Eros Day Because… I love Eros Day because Eros is an anagram for rose, and what better way to celebrate than giving someone mixed rose

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… the greatest thing you will ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return

Twitter Name: @scrumpy11
I Love Eros Day Because… Heavens Above, It’s Time for Love.  Let your aura glow, Let the passion flow. Send Kisses galore to the one you ador

Name: Nancy Bradford
I Love Eros Day Because… It is Valentines day less comercialised cousin.  It is a time to remember how much love there is in the world.

Name: Naomi K
I Love Eros Day Because… …it’s way better than Valentine’s day! <3

Name: James Ellis
I Love Eros Day Because… Well because I just love it! Quite simply! X

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… the opportunity to show love is finite and should be celebrated as often as a person can.

Name: hazel christopher
I Love Eros Day Because… it reminds us to be loving and affectionate towards one another, and love is an amzing and powerful thing!

Name: tracy forrest
I Love Eros Day Because… its the best day in the world

Twitter Name: @ferguson14
I Love Eros Day Because… its like a merrygoround, spinning love round and round

Twitter Name: @chocoaj
I Love Eros Day Because… it reminds me of what matters in life love !

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… My heart is filled to overflowing with love

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… my heart is not sore from the thorn of a rose, it is filled with the love represented by a red rose

Twitter Name: @pbhibbert
I Love Eros Day Because… you don’t have to buy meaningless cards for it.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… I love Eros Day because I met my husband online and I believe that love can span many miles!

Twitter Name: @justasliceof
I Love Eros Day Because… i can show hoh much love i have

Name: tonya duprey
I Love Eros Day Because… the glimpse of a womans eyes was said to be the love dart of eros
the gift of a rose can set that dart alight

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… I love Eros Day because Eros is Rose spelt another way.
Both signify love abound & love makes the world go around.

Name: davina williams
I Love Eros Day Because… he is the ultimate god of love

Name: liz spencer
I Love Eros Day Because… floribunda and massive lilies are my dream come true but roses are red and violets are blue, to win would be sweet,

Name: Naomi K
I Love Eros Day Because… ..it brings people together (and because of the roses).

         @>–;–    

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… True love is always worth twittering about

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… a single red rose spells an end to marital rows…!

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros is the god of love, red roses are THE sign of love and LOVE is what makes the world a wonderful place to be

Name: Oliver Evans
I Love Eros Day Because… It’s an extra chance to show my heart, reboosting my relationship with a loving spoilt kick start!

Name: Ann Farrar
I Love Eros Day Because… Because without love where would we be.

Name: Rachel Taylor
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros represents marital love and I am so in love with my husband

Name: Hazel Christopher
I Love Eros Day Because… it’s a celebration of our love, and love should always be cause for celebration

Twitter Name: @susanwillshee
I Love Eros Day Because… passion’s always in fashion
especially on Eros day
so to gain a love without ration
I make sure I give lots away

Twitter Name: @supergirlgem
I Love Eros Day Because… γιατί αγαπώ την Ελλάδα και τους Έλληνες θεούς
Because I love Greece and the Gr

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… it is on special days such as this,that my love wakens me with a kiss

Name: Justine Powell
I Love Eros Day Because… A rose is the perfect start
On Eros day to melt my heart
So I really adore Eros day
I love you it seems to say

Twitter Name: @hmby1
I Love Eros Day Because… romance makes the world go round!

Name: Katherine Coldicott
I Love Eros Day Because… The world would be nothing without love.

Name: Mary Green
I Love Eros Day Because… calling it SORE Day would sound silly.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… love is in the air roses all around oh to be in love leaves you spell bound

Twitter Name: @quizzyrascal
I Love Eros Day Because… I was a red rose maiden a true lancastrian but when Eros arrow hit me I wed a Yorkshireman

Name: Cathy MacLennan
I Love Eros Day Because… it is one day when you can be pampered, cared for and loved without feeling guilty about it

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Eeveryone loves a lover

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Being a romantic, I don’t use ‘common scents’, allowing cupid’s arrow to make its dents!

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… I know her secret name is an anagram of EROS and she is really ROSE Day, a relative of my “Secret Love”, Doris Day!

Name: Val Fish
I Love Eros Day Because… No hype or hiked up prices you get on Valentine’s Day, just the chance for us to celebrate in our own special way.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros is the Greek god of LOVE & roses are a symbol of LOVE & LOVE should be celebrated

Twitter Name: @WISHGIRL123
I Love Eros Day Because… It’s the perfect day to tell all those you care about that ‘you love them and that they are so special to you’
To A

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… because well all need to “support our Eros”

Name: Esmee Whisson
I Love Eros Day Because… A ROSE by any other name!

Name: Wendy Pearson
I Love Eros Day Because… Roses are red, violets are blue; Eros Day says, “I’ll always LOVE YOU”!

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros Day celebrates the fact that love is forever.
Even when we are apart it will keep us together.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… True love is always worth twittering about.

Name: Saffy
I Love Eros Day Because… It’s an excuse to be romantic without the commercial side like Valentines day. It means so much more!!

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… what is a world without love and red red roses? My surname starts with a Rose so I’m primed to love roses!

Twitter Name: @eileenms
I Love Eros Day Because… Like Cupid’s arrows – sharp and to the point love is blooming wonderful!

Twitter Name: @maggie6789
I Love Eros Day Because… I love British traditions

Name: Hazel Christopher
I Love Eros Day Because… the sun is always shining making me feel warm and fuzzy inside, just like love does.

Twitter Name: @buagh9
I Love Eros Day Because… its a chance to show special people that you love them

Twitter Name: @suedong
I Love Eros Day Because… come rain or shine he is really mine, where the arrow lands he’s mine all mine

Twitter Name: @stephennohorror
I Love Eros Day Because… “I know it’s daft, and it might sound silly, but I met my love in Picadilly,….yes that’statue’ baby!!!”. x

Name: Oliver Blackwell
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros by any other name would smell as feet

Twitter Name: @shellwin64
I Love Eros Day Because… the person I love the most was named Rose she had a charm bracelet with Eros on which she gave to me.,When she left

Twitter Name: @shellwin64
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros held very special memories for my Rose and I hold very special memories for her. I’m glad Eros Day is on her bi

Name: Carol Betts
I Love Eros Day Because… I think about the one I love, Keith, the hand to my glove. Everything I’ll ever need, 1 in a million, a dying breed

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… it gives me an intellectual-sounding excuse to seduce my fiance! Λατρεύω Έρως ημέρες

Twitter Name: @lew3404
I Love Eros Day Because… i love eros day becuase i was told to love it

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… A Lady Arouse Eco Vibes

Name: Warren Reilly
I Love Eros Day Because… It is the true embodyment of ones Persons Love for another outwith the hype generated by the big Marketing Moguls

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… One day to show them how much you love them just isn’t enough!

Name: JULIE FINDLAY
I Love Eros Day Because… My birthday is in august and my boyfriends birthday is on valentines day.So Eros day is my very romantic day.

Name: Julia Oldham
I Love Eros Day Because… *Every
*Rose
*often
*Shows
*Deep
*Admiration (for)
*You

Name: Kevin Hutchinson
I Love Eros Day Because… Everyone can show their ROmantic Side.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… …..the world needs love….like a hand needs a glove……it’s something we all need more of.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… …….the world needs another day to focus on love, sweet love.

Name: Paul Casella
I Love Eros Day Because… The earth laughs with the flowers beneath our feet, but even the smallest bunch gives me a treat – my wife’s smile

Name: Maria Shaw
I Love Eros Day Because… I’m a true romantic. Surprise roses, petals and balloons… Cupid’s gifts would be heaven scent.

Name: Gail Lowery
I Love Eros Day Because… its Exciting Romantic Original & Sweet!!!!

Twitter Name: @stephennohorror
I Love Eros Day Because… Complete with ROSES, chocs, and wine, it helped to make my sweetheart mine..and thanks to EROS day in bed…I,m now

Name: caz yates
I Love Eros Day Because… eros paves the way,
for love and romance,
the ladies have a chance
to get roses for a day,
eros paves the way

Name: Sarah Ridal
I Love Eros Day Because… it’s another chance to show that special person how much I love them.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… I love visiting London. Eros reminds me of Picadilly Circus and London.

Twitter Name: @halleygal
I Love Eros Day Because… without love we are nothing.

Name: julie gartland
I Love Eros Day Because… Becouse love brings eternal
hope snd forgivness to everyone the world.

Name: Julie Gartland
I Love Eros Day Because… Love warms our Hearts and feeds our soul with the power of our childrens smiles.

Name: Julie Gartland
I Love Eros Day Because… Only a true believer in love can change the world.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… It reminds me how Eros’ bullseye long shot pinned down my husband and keeps our romance hot

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… It’s the brightest day and also the hottest night of the year!

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… if we as humans were not there to experience and to enjoy its wonder.then love would be wasted

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… you can’t say “I love you too many times”. Even nicer to hear it said back.

Name: Helen Jones
I Love Eros Day Because… I Love Roses and Roses Say I Love You!

Name: Christine Reardon
I Love Eros Day Because… Life is better when we celebrate with those we love

Name: Laura Richardson
I Love Eros Day Because… Its my birthday!!

Name: catherine scully
I Love Eros Day Because… true love should be celebrated

Name: lauren coleman
I Love Eros Day Because… its all about the love from family & friends! smiles from strangers on such a day, wish it was eros day everyday

Name: Oliver Blackwell
I Love Eros Day Because… unlike other days of love it doesn’t leave me feeling like a bear with eros head…

Name: Oliver Blackwell
I Love Eros Day Because… every day without love is back to front: sore

Name: Trish
I Love Eros Day Because… it gives me hope,that maybe, just maybe, Mr Right will eventually arrive….

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… it gives me hope…….

Name: Trish
I Love Eros Day Because… after the breakdown of 23 years of marriage, & several failed flings, romance may after all not be quite dead….

Name: Amanda Caven
I Love Eros Day Because… Celebrating passion should never be out of fashion.

Name: laura jones
I Love Eros Day Because… love makes the world go round and with no love where would we all be

Name: nat davies
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros, God of Love, with his wings and gold feathered arrows, can touch everyone and everything.

Name: Naomi K
I Love Eros Day Because… …it’s an anagram for ‘rose’ day and I LOVE roses.

Name: Naomi K
I Love Eros Day Because… …it’s about a thing called love.

Name: Naomi K
I Love Eros Day Because… …it’s way better than Valentine’s day! <3

Name: Naomi K
I Love Eros Day Because… ..it brings people together (and because of the roses).

         @>–;–    

Name: Elaine Kerr
I Love Eros Day Because… roses though red none are  blue,but big freebie bunches each week will do!

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… romance cannot fail when Eros says ‘You’ve got mail’

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… That ring of roses could foretell a ring of gold and wedding bells

Name: Eve Nykamp
I Love Eros Day Because… Its simple you know
call 0800 808 7673
thinking of your beau
A small gesture & their heart
with rose bloom doth glow

Name: Wendy Harris
I Love Eros Day Because… Pure simple tradition , romances your soul

Name: Chloe Smith
I Love Eros Day Because… it’s such a special day
to love and give come what May.
A beauty rose I hear you say?
Such a treat,it’s made my day

Name: Chloe Smith
I Love Eros Day Because… romance isn’t dead!

Twitter Name: @stubbyd
I Love Eros Day Because… it allows me to send extra love to my sweetheart without being ripped off.

Name: mrs rosemary evans
I Love Eros Day Because… it is another special  day to tell my wonderful husband how much i love him

Name: Kim Garland
I Love Eros Day Because… i love getting spoiled with roses and chocolates

Twitter Name: @pinkkimmylou
I Love Eros Day Because… it’s another great reason to celebrate a day with my loved ones (and I get extra pressies)

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… it does not allow me to forget how the rest of the days are to be “loving you passionately every second of the day.

Twitter Name: @stephennohorror
I Love Eros Day Because… “Thanks to last “EROS DAY” in bed, tonight I’m off to ‘wet my baby’s head’!!!!!.”

Name: Roland Murray
I Love Eros Day Because… I am an old romantic sailor who has loved women the world over.

Name: Linda Estes
I Love Eros Day Because… it gives me another excuse
to thank my friends.

Name: Naomi K
I Love Eros Day Because… …it’s about a thing called love.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… love is simply the ONLY way

Name: jane moffatt
I Love Eros Day Because… it doesn’t matter what the reason is, the roses say what you can’t put into words

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Love Often Grows From The Giving Of A Rose.

Name: linda vincent
I Love Eros Day Because… Thorn between lovers, the rose blush prefers
That I wilt with passion as each Eros-enous bone in my bodice stirs

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… love makes the world “grow” round!

Name: judy athey
I Love Eros Day Because… how nice to celebrate a lovers day, outside on a summers day.

Name: Naomi K
I Love Eros Day Because… …it’s about a thing called love.

Name: Julie Gartland
I Love Eros Day Because… Love warms our Hearts and feeds our soul with the power of our childrens smiles.

Name: Julie Gartland
I Love Eros Day Because… Only a true believer in love can change the world.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Rose’s are Red,
Violet’s are Blue,
Mine are Pink,
But I’m not showing you!

Name: Oliver Blackwell
I Love Eros Day Because… every day without love is back to front: sore

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Rose’s are Red
Violet’s are Blue,
Mine are Pink,
But I’m not showing you!

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… it reminds me that love is as old as time and older than Eros, but makes us all feel alive, vibrant and treasured.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… “I can immerse myself in life’s simple pleasures”

Name: stacey
I Love Eros Day Because… its the best

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros is Rose – just spelt another way

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… like a balloon it is filled with Love!!!!

Twitter Name: @pseudosocial
I Love Eros Day Because… i have to cos i work here… and im testing it

Twitter Name: @agillespie155
I Love Eros Day Because… Deep Down
I’m Shallow

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… It reminds me that “Eros” is an anagram of “rose”-and both smell sweet!

Twitter Name: @juneski
I Love Eros Day Because… I LOVE being different.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… for today love is here; hate and spite can disappear. Eros Day – see you next year.

Twitter Name: @nonnaalison
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros Day is a special time
for songs 2 sing
and poems that rhyme, 2 say I Love you in a special way,
because love is

Name: Naomi K
I Love Eros Day Because… ..it brings people together (and because of the roses).

         @>–;–    

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… I love EROS day because Every Rose opens Someone’s HEART

Twitter Name: @seany76
I Love Eros Day Because… whats not to love

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros acts like Cupid’s dart; it hits the spot and steals my heart.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… With all the stars in heaven above
I love Eros Day
And I believe in love

Name: julie a akroyd
I Love Eros Day Because… Summer Sun and warm blowing breezes far outweigh the winter sneezes. August is far more romantic

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… which ever way you look at it, being kind and loving is the only way we can give this country a rosy future for all.

Twitter Name: @LoveWinning
I Love Eros Day Because… flowers are so much cheaper than on Valentine’s Day!

Name: Sue Wontroba
I Love Eros Day Because… Love and romance is everyday not just Valentines day

Twitter Name: @Dwerrycat
I Love Eros Day Because… We would have no pathos only chaos without Eros.

Name: MAUREEN TYSICK
I Love Eros Day Because… I’m fat ‘n’ 60 but prize EROS would make me feel flirty ‘n’ 30

Twitter Name: @highrising51
I Love Eros Day Because… without love the skies are grey

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… Valentines day is cold and dark, eros day brings sunshine and light.

Name: evangelia direki
I Love Eros Day Because… it is summer and always that day i am in greece.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… the world will be a happier place the more love we share, so I embrace this special day to show how much I care.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… discerning romantics refuse to be commercialised, knowing that Eros Day is specially for them and their beloved!

Twitter Name: @standardwing
I Love Eros Day Because… ‘ip, ‘ip ‘ooray, we need ‘eroship today

Name: terina davidson
I Love Eros Day Because… it’s one day when everyone can declare there love for someone & be utterly romantic,without feeling silly

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… we need every possible excuse to spread love (and roses).

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… it reminds people how special and important love is and how we should remember to show it.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… because I’m young at heart an old romantic and in still in love after 21 years…. xXx

Name: Charmaine Brown
I Love Eros Day Because… Eros is another Day of Roses, all in bright array,
To say ‘I Love You’ loud and clear a 2nd time during the year

Name: Charmaine Brown
I Love Eros Day Because… in 2002 it was created with St Valentine in mind, to say ‘Your Love is mine’.

Name: Verity Cady
I Love Eros Day Because… I love Eros Day because everyone needs to know that they are loved by others.

Name: Anthea Holloway
I Love Eros Day Because… Rain or Shine, sky black or blue
Eros Day comes shining through

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… It’s a blooming beautiful way to celebrate the day that LOVE came your way.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… his arrow is poised, his bow is drawn, with a single red rose, her heart will be mine.

Twitter Name: @stephennohorror
I Love Eros Day Because… “I could ‘twitter’on,and on, and on,about love for hours..but on Eros day it’s said with flowers!”.

Twitter Name: @stephennohorror
I Love Eros Day Because… “Like Eros before me, and those in the know…it’s simply another string to my ‘Beau’!.”

Twitter Name: @emma1111111
I Love Eros Day Because… Love’s kiss becomes even sweeter

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… we know roses are red and violets are blue but loving eros day will be blooming marvellous all year through!

Name: Norma Ramsay
I Love Eros Day Because… It is my older daughter Gillian Carter’s wedding anniversary on this day.

Twitter Name: @daisyduck123
I Love Eros Day Because… I love romance xx

Twitter Name: @eileenms
I Love Eros Day Because… Whether life is a bed or roses or not – let’s celebrate love!

Name: Miss Moyra A Borg
I Love Eros Day Because… the word is as muddled as my love life!

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… everyone deserves to be shown they are loved a little bit more everyday.

Twitter Name: @meena007
I Love Eros Day Because… after all the riots,we need to share our love to heal and help the community

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… if all you need is love, one love day per year is not enough!

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… life should be Rosy.

Name: Ann Willers
I Love Eros Day Because… Because Eros Day loves love

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… without Eros there would be no Hero’s

Twitter Name: @webkinny
I Love Eros Day Because… its a lovely day to show people how much you care about them. Share the love.

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… love is the most important thing in my life.

Twitter Name: @stephennohorror
I Love Eros Day Because… “Like Eros before me, and those in the know…it’s simply another string to my ‘Beau’!.”

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… On this special day,love will find a way to mend a broken heart,never again to part,together we will be, eternally.

Name: Naomi K
I Love Eros Day Because… …it’s way better than Valentine’s day! <3

Name: nev
I Love Eros Day Because… Every time there is a repatriation through Wootton Bassett, someone has lost a ‘love’. 1 day makes a difference

Twitter Name: @smd40377
I Love Eros Day Because… 6 months is too long to wait to tell my valentine I love him!!
I love Eros/Cupid day.When in Athens do as the greeks

Twitter Name: @smd40377
I Love Eros Day Because… 6 months is too long to wait to tell my valentine I love him!!
I love Eros/Cupid day.When in Athens do as the Atheni

Anonymous
I Love Eros Day Because… it’s a day for Red Rose ‘Eros.

Twitter Name: @stephennohorror
I Love Eros Day Because… This day so named that  draws to close as left my pillow one red rose, how it got there, no-one knows, a secret love

OK that’s it… Long Live Eros Day everyone…… The winner of our blooming wonderful 1st prize of a year of roses will be announced real soon… But for the moment please allow our sore heads recover from this years celebrations… May take a week or two

Before we announce the winner we must say a big thank you to everyone who entered the competition, to see a full list of entries please click here.

And a further big thank you to everyone who helped us in our hour of need by commenting on our post The Red Rose Society Needs You!

OK with all the thank you’s out of the way all that’s left for us to do is announce who the winner of our Big Valentines Day 2011 twitter friendly “My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose because…” competition is :-

The lovely & glowing Charmaine Brown

Here is her sweetly played entry in all it’s glory  :-

My Love is like a Red, Red Rose,
Sweet and lovely and it shows
Why he loves me no one knows
But Im the one who truly glows
Just like a Red, Red Rose!

Thanks for reading and if you would like to enter our next competition to celebrate Eros Day on August the 14th 2011 please click here.

Well wonder no more because we have a sneak preview of what we believe Kate Middleton will be holding on her big day and it’s called The Great British Bridal Bouquet because it’s full of the nations favourite flowers… Red, White and Blue Roses.

We realize of course Kate Middleton’s bridal bouquet will probably be a little more traditional than this, but wouldn’t it be a wonderful surprise if her bridal bouquet matched all the red white and blue bunting stretched across the street parties of Great Britian?

By the way… if you’re reading this Kate, and you have changed your mind as to your bridal bouquet (it’s a Princess’es prerogative you know) you’re not too late to order one of our Great British Bouquets online from… you guessed it… The Great British Online Florist of Choice.

Thanks for reading everyone and all that’s left to do, is wish Kate and Will on behalf of The Red Rose Society and all our members, all the very best and that their lives be filled with happiness, charity work and heirs to the throne.

Ohhh not forgetting of course…. Long live the Queen

So to help us pick the winner of our Valentines Day 2011 “My love is like a Red, Red Rose because…” twitter friendly competition we are asking you to choose your favourite from our top 10 and post a comment.

The entry with the most favourable comments on this page wins our fabulous 1st prize of a “Lifetime of Roses”

The top 10 entries to pick from are :-

Entry 1… My Love is like a Red, Red Rose… He’s short and plump with not much hair But he’s fragrant and generous with the love we share!

Entry 2… My Love is like a Red, Red Rose… it’s deep colour is the depth of my love & even in death it’s beauty and memory is eternal as a pressed flower.

Entry 3… My Love is like a Red, Red Rose… ‘for it grows and then blossoms, like pent up emotions unfroze,it heightens my senses , and pours scorn on mere prose!.’

Entry 4… My Love is like a Red, Red Rose… You are my darling tweetie pie. I know I,m not that good at prose, But I’ll love you till the day I die.

Entry 5… My Love is like a Red, Red Rose…
Sweet and lovely and it shows
Why he loves me no one knows
But Im the one who truly glows
Just like a red red rose

Entry 6… My Love is like a Red, Red Rose…
a joy to see it blossom,
but the greatest pleasure of all,
is cuddling up with ‘my little possum’

Entry 7… My Love is like a Red, Red Rose…
with scent as sweet as candy
But everyone around us knows
its not just cos we’re randy!

Entry 8… My Love is like a Red, Red Rose…
Mostly gentle I suppose,
Sometimes prickly, often soft,
Beautifully formed with a little waft

Entry 9… My Love is like a Red, Red Rose…
A gorgeous thing of beauty.
Just be careful how you treat it…
It might go droopy!

Entry 10… My Love is like a Red, Red Rose…
Because like the Red Rose Society,
my love in prose,
blossoms like a red red rose.

We intend to wait a few weeks and see what comments we get and then we promise a winner will be choosen…. At last

In the mean time however if you want to enter our next competition to celebrate Eros Day on August the 14th 2011 please click here.

Just enough time to tell you that as always The Red Rose Society is busy going the extra mile delivering throughout  the UK the very best in both :-

&

Infact all those extra miles we go, if we added them up we would have gone to the moon and back for all our customers a hundred times over  

Ok enough of that, as you know by now our prices are already astonishingly brilliant but we’ve decided to do something a little bit special for all our regular blog readers and that’s give you a huge Mothers Day special 15% discount off both http://www.InterRose.co.uk and http://www.InterBalloon.com!

 To claim your 15% discount just enter the simple code: “mum” on our order form.

That’s right 15%, I know what you must be thinking… We are one bus stop short on the road to the funny farm to offer such a  blooming great deal as that. And your right… we probably are

So as you can see with tons of balloons and loads of amazing bouquets on offer all at 15% off you don’t actually have an excuse not to get your Mum something amazing this Mothers Day.

Till our next thrilling post.. Cheerio everyone

It’s February the 14th 2011 and there is just enough time to for me to say Happy Valentines Day to ya’all and to thank everyone for entering our wonderful  twitter friendly  Valentines Day competition at http://blog.TRRS.org/twitter-competition.

We will be anouncing the winner in a week or so as soon as we get a few moment to ourselves. 

That said, today of all days is not one of those few moments and I can hear the gentle sobs of our blooming wonderful and hard working staff in the distance as they are handed a whole lot more orders to process!!!

So before I join them with armfuls of more roses we hope whatever your doing today (the most romantic or should that be stressful day of the year) believe in a thing called Love and Romance when your doing it OK!

TTFN… x

It’s January the 25th and that can only mean it’s Burns night….

He like us loved his roses and he like us particularly loved red roses,hence his immortalized poem “My Love is like a Red Red Rose” is our most favourite poem.

Infact our love for Robert Burns or as we like top call him Rabbie Burns is so much we have even performed our very own version of “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose” and have named a Red Rose and even asked everyone in our 2011 Valentines Day twitter friendly competition why their love is like a red red rose in his honour.

Check all three of our dedications to Robert Burns below :-

 http://www.TRRS.org/rose_garden/the_Robert-Burns-Red-Red_rose.html  

http://blog.TRRS.org/my-love-is-like-a-red-red-rose.html

 http://blog.TRRS.org/twitter-competition

To download our song please right click on this link and save it to your hard drive otherwise just click the play arrow and enjoy our version of “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose” which we are proud to say is unlike any version you will ever hear again!

Happy Burns Night everyone and may your love be like a Red Red Rose forever @->–

To kick start our new and improved rose blog in 2011 the way we mean to go on we firstly need to start with a massive apology to all our red rose blog members for not keeping our rose blog up-to-date. Infact the last blog post we did was to tell you about our Eros Day competwittion winner way back on August the 14th

The reasons are numerous, but boil down to the single thing we lack the most of all and that is time. However we have employed several new staff this year and we are all set for a wonderful 2011 with room to grow our rose business and rose blog into the blooming lovely budding rose it deserves to be!

So with that said… You can’t start a new year off with out a few new years roselutions (Do you like the way we twisted the word resolution and included a rose in it ) so here goes…

• Nurture our Rose Blog
• Grow our Rose Blog
• Water or Rose Blog
• Propagate our Rose Blog
• Bloom our Rose Blog
• Flourish our Rose Blog
• Sow our Rose Blog
• Prune our Rose Blog
• Blossom our Rose Blog

Hope you get the idea It’s all about the Bog and the Roses… Till our next post… keep believing in a thing called Roses everyone!!!

Tracy Jewkes

Her twitter name is @rockystar and we choose her entry above all others because hers explanation was simple yet perfectly formed and she was the only one (except our own entries) to include a smiley face at the end

Trays entry is as follows :-

Love is… All I Need

We know your going to enjoy your lifetime of roses