This Valentine's, fall in love with your home again, via Electric Ireland Quick Quote

EI: Una

Hi folks,

Home is where the heart is... and every so often, a home can become a little cold and in need of TLC and warming up!

Electric Ireland's Home Energy team offers a range of services to make your home cosier and more energy-efficient, for example: insulation, heating upgrade, renewable technologies.

A facility to obtain a cost quote quickly and easily is here - in the shape of Quick Quote: available now as a simple-to-use computer app and already as part of our Appliance Calculator app.




To mark St Valentine's Day and the introduction of our handy Quick Quote desktop, we are offering, here on Boards.ie, a Radisson Blu hotel voucher worth €300. It can be used in literally any Radisson Blu hotel, and is valid for 12 months.



Radisson Blu St Helen's, Dublin


To enter the competition, it's very simple and in keeping with the time that's in it - just post directly to this thread any memorable Valentine's moments: it could be... the first Valentine's card you ever received, the first card you sent, a particularly memorable (for the right or wrong reasons!) Valentine's meal, the moment when Cupid's arrow hit you... Anything – so long as you bear in mind that it's a family competition.

The competition runs until this time next week; terms and conditions here.

We're anticipating some very soppy, sentimental posts - and hooray for that!

Best of luck, and enjoy!

Regards,

Electric Ireland Boards.ie team

Austin1

I'll never forget my first Valentine card. I was about 11 years old, the message was a bit cheesy but that's okay - I was thrilled just to get a card. It was only after examining it closely for a couple of hours that it dawned on me why that handwriting was so familiar
- thanks Mam!

aidan.connolly

My special Valentine memory was getting my first Valentine card at the age of 8 .

Twenty10

my best valentine present was a box of roses made up of only strawberry sweets, my favourites :

chavezychavez

I remember writing a valentines card on a typewriter and trying to type a heart like the one below.

Many wasted sheets of paper. No delete button back then :pac:
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goldenhoarde

Oh to be young again. One of my memories of valentines day is of my brother and his best friend meeting at the door of the girl they fancied as they went to drop off their cards on the way to school! The look of "what you doing here?". i was accross the road watching it all unfold Mind you they were about 12

coolclogher

Getting my first card at 9

Korvanica

Sitting in by the fire eating pizza, drinking rum & watching How I Met Your Mother with my girlfriend...

dulpit

When I was in 2nd year in school, one of the lads got sent a valentine's card to the school (pranked by some of his buddies not in the school). He had to collect the card in front of the year, after being called out over the loud-speaker. Morto for him. :pac:

adamski8

going drinking with mates

clintondaly

Im still waiting for a memorable valentines day moment

Mellio

Mine has to be when I proposed to my wife with a single rose on valentines day out in a restaurant and I had the ring embedded inside the rose itself.

She couldnt beleive it. thankfully she said yes!

stooge

My first valentines memory was my cousin sending me a Valentines Card through the post as a prank. My parents kept at me for days asking who sent it as there was no name. but just lots of corny poems and rhymes. I think I was 9 or 10 years old at the time. I got loads of stick off my older brothers too. Card is still in the house last time I checked!

zero19

My earliest memory is making a heart shaped card with balled up bits of paper around it, I was 6 so gave it to my mother

confuseddotcom

A card I got in National School from a boy I really liked.  As it happens this guy was (possibly still is?) pretty good at Art.  There was hearts and diamonds on it, it was a lovely card.  Unfortunately an un-named member of the household threw it out at some stage thinking I didn't want it, I would have loved to have kept it.

livdmg

Getting a few cards when i was in third year at school totally out of the blue, was a much needed ego boost

Miguel_Sanchez

Started a greeting card company several years back. Just bought my second house thanks to this year's profits from Valentine's Day cards.

Thanks dudes!

McGarnagle92

I got excited when I saw my first valentines day card....turns out it was from my sister

gillymayb

My first valentines day with my boyfriend was all set to be very romantic and different.  The night before, I made a picnic with homemade biscuits and cakes, all set for our boat journey up along the coast of Ireland on valentines day.  Naively thinking that in February, the weather was going to be fabulous, oh how wrong I was! Left the harbour at half seven and made our way up the coast to deliver boats, sun shining and feeling excited.  The small electrical fire on board soon diminished the excitment, not to mention all of the electrics on board.  After a long 8 hour journey, we finally made it to Antrim, a little sea sick and unable to walk after the force 7 winds has smashed nearly every bone in my body when the waves hit the hull of the boat! Needless to say, the picnic was untouched.  We soon learned that if we didn't kill each other that day, we would make it through anything and are still together 5 and a half years later  :)  It was a very memorable day.  One I won't be forgetting for a very very long time.

tacofries

MY first valentine memory was getting a card from my secret admirer (my auntie) in the post when I was 7!

The_B_Man

My first V-Day memory was when I was a teen, scraping together enough pocket money to get some cheap perfume for a very "lucky" lady! She must have been easily impressed because she said she loved it. :pac:

vepyewwo

I got my first card when i was 10 from a secret admirer and thought I was great. Like a lot of people I later found out my mam had sent it to me!

roroduff

My brothers got a card from my girl next door neighbour ad I was devestated my boy next door neighbour didn't get me one. I swear my life had ended and I remember crying for hours. Then in the afternoon the door bell rang and there he was with a single rose in his hand. He wanted to get a fresh one for me. It's mad how something so small made me feel so bad and then so good

jordata

I still have my favourite valentine card.  It was made in 2004 by my daughter, then 4, in playschool.  It is a variety of clashing red and pink coloured paper stuck to a love heart shaped card.  The best bit is the scrawled Mam and xxx on the inside.

JTMan

Buying roses for the first time.

Jes114

I recieved a card with lots of cheeky comments and saucy poems, signed with a print of red lipstick, with an invitation to be in a certain location at a certain time. Bbeing quite young at the time, my parents did not want me to go because card was not signed but after lots of insisting, I was allowed to go and ended up late and found no one there! After a few days I learned that my cousin sent the card and organized a group of friends armed with flour and eggs to wait for me at the spot, thank god I was late!!

melkeane06

every valentine days for the last 8 years have been special as i have spent them with the same special guy, who is now my fiance..we get married this year...this would be a fab prize to win

Eoghan41

giving my gf a pack of porridge on our first valentines date as she had mentioned that she liked it previously...she was in stitches

poppyfields

Getting home from school and the excitement of seeing my first Valentines card from a secret admirer. I cherished that padded card with teddy bears adorned on in for years. Year's later I found out my mammy had sent it...gutted.com!

Monife

My most memorable Valentine's moment was the first one I spent with my husband (boyfriend at the time). He really spoiled me, got me chocolates, flowers and a huge teddy, brought me out for dinner and the restaurant was really nice and they gave us complimentary champagne and then we sat under the stars in front of a beautiful fountain that was lit up with pink lights

Falthyron

My most memorable Valentine's moment was when I was twelve years old. For roughly five years I sent the same girl a card every Valentine's Day. She knew it was me every time, but I guess she was too embarrassed to acknowledge it, or me, or both. I would get so excited when buying the card and would spend hours writing stupid and silly 'Roses are Red...' poems - I even put petals from a rose in the card once! Even though I got no response year after year, I continued to send them, hoping she would notice me. And every time I sent one, my family and friends would always ask if she said anything - I think that was the hardest part.

Then in sixth class I was sitting on the bus home minding my own business. She was the bus prefect and usually walked up and down, asking kids to sit down and keep quiet. All of a sudden she sat down next to me! I could hardly believe it and quickly fumbled through the usual talk about homework, etc - assuming that was what she was going to ask. Instead, she held my hand, looked me in the eyes and said 'Thank you for the lovely card, and all the other cards you have sent me over the years'. I couldn't believe it! I brushed it off and said it was no trouble (or something to that effect), but on the inside I had never felt so shaken in all my life. She smiled at me and then went back to her duties, but I walked home that day with a grin so wide I didn't care how stupid I looked. 

Nothing ever happened with the girl later on in life as we went separate ways, but I will always remember her for that moment.

seany76

violets are blue roses are redoh how this day fills me with dread
each year i wait for a card on the mat
hopes high but always squashed flat
a ring at the door and im up like a shot
a gift for me no wrong door the postman has got
now dont get me wrong i like to be single
i love to go out and in the pub mingle
have friends who with me would love to get away
just not in my bed permanently stay
so electric ireland i hope this year you will by my valentine
i'll check out your app while  in the radisson i will dine

orl

Electric Ireland: Una wrote: »

Hi folks,

Home is where the heart is... and every so often, a home can become a little cold and in need of TLC and warming up!

Electric Ireland's Home Energy team offers a range of services to make your home cosier and more energy-efficient, for example: insulation, heating upgrade, renewable technologies.

A facility to obtain a cost quote quickly and easily is here - in the shape of Quick Quote: available now as a simple-to-use computer app and already as part of our Appliance Calculator app.




To mark St Valentine's Day and the introduction of our handy Quick Quote desktop, we are offering, here on Boards.ie, a Radisson Blu hotel voucher worth €300. It can be used in literally any Radisson Blu hotel, and is valid for 12 months.



Radisson Blu St Helen's, Dublin


To enter the competition, it's very simple and in keeping with the time that's in it - just post directly to this thread any memorable Valentine's moments: it could be... the first Valentine's card you ever received, the first card you sent, a particularly memorable (for the right or wrong reasons!) Valentine's meal, the moment when Cupid's arrow hit you... Anything – so long as you bear in mind that it's a family competition.

The competition runs until this time next week; terms and conditions here.

We're anticipating some very soppy, sentimental posts - and hooray for that!

Best of luck, and enjoy!

Regards,

Electric Ireland Boards.ie team

Every life needs a bit of mystery. I was never the kind of girl to get loads of cards. In Leaving Cert I got two - one was from a creep but to this day I don't know who the other one was from. It was a sweet  and sincere message....and for some reason, I don't think it was from my mother/aunt/usual suspects. I hope I never find out who sent it. It was just such a wonderful feeling to see the surprise from the other girls in the class and to think little ol' me had a secret admirer.

.BrianJM

I've still got a card, including envelope with real lipstick kiss, from about 14 years ago.
I have never found out for certain who sent it, and I'm still available should she still have the desire.
Call me.

Mr Benevolent

My first Valentine's day in Venice. Ah memories...

rcazzy

Memories of panicking wondering if everything is right and it just works out, nearly every time.

zinzan

First valentine's with my other half.. she went all out , card and present, dinner... I told her I don't celebrate hallmark day....
(Got away with it though - Still together!)

leinsterdude

gettin a card from my gran.... :) she gave me an ace of hearts in an envelope....awwww

p15574

We normally avoid the commercialism, but there was one time I sent her roses to be delivered at work - she was mortified (but probably secretly pleased too...)

warrenaldo

I wrote a short story in the style of Cinderalla and the ugly sisters. 
She was Cinderalla, her sisters were the ugly sisters and her mam was the evil stepmother.
I rescued her from the horrible existance and we all lived happily ever after.

It went down great with my wife - not so great with the in-laws.

Stanton82

My First valentine's day was Feb 14th, 2001; 12 years ago. I was in Senior Secondary Class 2 and I was dating my first love back then- Joan (not real name). Joan was my everything. This was the period of west life and I had absolutely no hesitation in unashamedly plagiarizing all of their songs to send her love poems every day- ''and its like flying without wings, you're my special thing, I'm flying without wings... and that's the joy you bring.... I'm flying without wings'' -I must have written a hundred versions of that song. To me back then nothing surpassed the joy I felt when I handed her a sheet from my exercise book the morning after a looonnng night and she smiled. 

Feb 14th, 2001, I had emptied all my live's savings so I could get Joan a card, a box of chocolate and a perfume (I've always been one for style- alright admittedly the perfume was the cheapest I could muster back then-and the chocolate- , but it was the intent behind it!) I remember I had to borrow some extra cash from my wing man and best friend Tony but sacrificing for Joan back then was typical- she was 'the one'! For this particular valentine's day, which was to be our first, I arranged with Tony to get her over to one of the empty class rooms after school. I'd be with my cards and presents and a poem I had specially composed for her (oh the moment had to be magical) I was also hoping to steal my first kiss! (I did read a lot of Mills and Boom as a child- shoot me).


Tony did come to meet in the class room quite alright, but only with a note from Joan- ''Dear [Insert my real name here] I'm sorry but its over . You always treat me as an egg, but I can also be as hot as a cucumber''! It took me sometime to understand the note (most especially the cucumber aspect of it)! Eventually though i found out she was shagging a college student who lived around her house. Never quite recovered. Tony ate all the chocolate and I still hate cucumbers till date.

The Big Red Button

I remember in fifth class making a handmade Valentines card for my crush, signing it 'Anonymous', and sneaking in to the classroom at break-time to leave it in the boy's schoolbag.

However I accidentally left it in his friend's schoolbag instead - a boy who I absolutely hated - and, even worse, I was seen leaving it there, so everyone thought I fancied the wrong guy. 

Tar.Aldarion

I'm just happy that for valentines I have the best girl in the world. Somebody that is wonderful and makes me happy. Of course valentines in particular is not a special day where you only let them know that, so I suggest you guys let your partners know today and every day. :-)

donegal.

first met eyes with my now wife at a party on valentines day.

Beagslife

I don't go in for it myself. Still, we're not averse to a nice Radisson Blu romantic break on any other weekend of the year!

Mountjoy Mugger

Sent my first Valentine Day card when 11. Recipient never spoke to me again.

NEVER sign your name!

TeddyRuxpin

When I was in fourth class primary school, I was given extra homework as punishment for making the one girl in my class that I liked, cry on Valentine's Day.

She cried because I gave her a Valentine's card, along with a love letter (I spent all week working on) telling her how I thought she was the most beautiful girl in school.

I found out afterwards that she didn't like me and that's why she cried; turned out, she fancied my best friend (we both sat across the table from her). Our teacher kept me inside during lunch to explain that it wasn't nice to make girls cry and I should have known that she liked my friend. After lunch break, I was made move seats to the other side of the classroom, away from her and my best friend for the rest of the year. I was then made me write an essay about what happened for homework and had to get it signed by my mother.

An absolutely horrible, humiliating experience. The girl told everyone about the love letter and I was ridiculed about it for years to come (both in school and at home). I'm 30 years old now and I haven't been able to speak to her since. My friends & family still remind me of it when they run into one of her family members. It was also the last Valentine's card I gave to anyone until I met my fiancée four years ago.

hoodwinked

Every year the standard unsigned card would be found on the mat in the hall, when i was 14 there were two, utterly confused i asked my mum why she sent two, and she responded she didn't know who the second was from, after that she stopped sending them but still a card came...

this went on until i was 18, even though my address had changed the card came anyway, 

one night i was out with an old friend and i don't know how but the cards came up, he let slip it was him sending them to me all along, i asked why and he told me he saw what my family was like and wanted me to know someone loved me,  we agreed never to mention them again (we tried dating at 16 and realised we were better as friends)  and are still good friends until this day.

RUSTEDCORE

the fat dude in the nappy running through temple bar with bow in hand while being chased by roughly 10 women who wanted to rip his nappy off..:pac: .. It was a sight to behold until the women succeded :eek:  and I almost lost my 30 or so vicious valentine shots:(

dak

The delight on the face of my now wife of 21years when we were students and  I arrived  unannounced up from Galway on Valentines day and met her in the rain with a single Rose ( All I could afford then)  when she was on her way to get the bus home crossing  Butt Bridge  !

neonitrix

My favorite valentine memory walking the streets of Paris on a rainy afternoon, after visiting the Eiffel tower.  The game is who can speak the most French and considering neither of us spoke French everyone was the winner except the poor french people we were testing our language skills on lol.

ed