valentines

Bird & Blend Tea Exeter celebrates Valentine’s Day with free Love Heart Tea

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 02/08/2024 - 5:43pm
Bird & Blend Tea Exeter is celebrating Valentine’s Day with free Love Heart Tea for every customer, as 55% of Brits agree making your partner a cup of tea in bed is a sign of true romance.

A new study by Bird & Blend Tea Co. has revealed the 10 signs that prove true romance isn’t dead in the modern age.

2,014 Brits were asked what the true signs of a romantic in today’s world are, and making your partner a cup of tea topped the list with 55% saying this beats having a picture of their other half as a screensaver (44%).

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Let Devon's Nature be your Valentine this year

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 02/11/2022 - 11:47am

The RSPB in Devon are encouraging people to show themselves some love and care this Valentine’s Day by reconnecting with their local wildlife and greenspaces.

Inviting people in Devon to enjoy a walk at a nature reserve near them, the RSPB are on hand to help you discover local birdsong and take part in National Nestbox Week from 14-21 February.

Morwenna Alldis, spokesperson for the RSPB says: “Last year many of us probably missed out on our Valentine’s hearts and flowers because it was difficult to spend time with the people we love and care for during lockdown....

Date night at Vue Exeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 02/07/2020 - 11:03am

Vue Exeter is encouraging couples to have a cosy date night this Valentine’s Day with a range of new and classic films as well as big screen theatre productions, giving lovebirds a range of great stories to get lost in. Following new research from Vue and University College London, it has been revealed that as viewers watch a film, their heart rates become more closely aligned, often beating in unison. Skin conductance tests also show that certain events in a film trigger an increase in emotional arousal levels. That’s one more reason to visit Vue this Valentine’s Day!

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Valentine's Spa Offers at Wear Park Spa

Event Date: 
01/02/2018 - 9:30am to 28/02/2018 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
Wear Park Spa at Exeter Golf and Country Club

Indulgence, luxury, relaxation and romance. True love deserves more than just chocolate and flowers.

SPA TREATMENTS Surprise your loved one with a restorative spa treatment at Wear Park Spa. You can visit together with one of our exclusive Valentine’s Spa Offers below or purchase a gift voucher for a spa day, treatment or monetary amount so they can choose a beauty or spa treatment that suits them best.

Valentine’s Spa Offers are available throughout February in our dual-treatment rooms.

To book: please get in touch via the contact form below, email,...

Lovestruck

Event Date: 
14/02/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Folk and fairytales of love, longing and downright idiocy. Does the path of true love ever run smooth? Not in these tales of mayhem, star crossed lovers and cross dressing it doesn’t. Find out how intrepid princesses and wily brides save the day and their marriages (and sometimes their paramour as well!) in this fabulous kaleidoscope of funny, moving and feel-good tales for Valentine’s Day. Couples, cynics, singles and those who’ve been together long enough to laugh at themselves all catered for, your evening is sure to end happily ever after.

The show includes free love heart...

Get Kooky this Valentine’s Day in Princesshay

Princesshay has teamed up with KookyBooths this Valentine’s weekend to offer funky snaps for visitors.

The photo booth will be situated in Princesshay between 11am and 3pm on Saturday 13th February giving lovers, friends and families the chance to get fantastic snaps for free.

KookyBooths will be providing more than just smiley snaps on the day too. Visitors will also be able to record loving video messages in full HD, perfect for telling that special someone how you feel.

Photos and videos from the day will be shared on the Princesshay Facebook, Twitter and...

The 2015 relationship: You, your partner and Facebook

Love should be in the air in Exeter this weekend as we celebrate Valentine’s Day, yet new research finds old fashioned romance is under threat from 21st century living.

Michael Spiers Jewellers, renowned independent jewellers based in Exeter, polled people in the South West to gauge attitudes to love in 2015 and found that busy lifestyles and technology addictions are stunting relationships and putting a dampener on romance.* The survey revealed 42% of people think that there are too many distractions in modern society that get in the way of true love. They point the finger of...

Don't let a bad meal spoil your Valentine's Day date

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 02/11/2015 - 10:02am

According to a new poll by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), 17% of people in the South West have had a dating disaster on Valentine’s Day and, across the UK, bad restaurant experiences are responsible for a third (34%) of all nightmare nights out.

34% of daters in the South West report that getting food poisoning from a restaurant is the worst thing that could happen to them on Valentine’s Day – even ahead of being dumped (28%). Despite this, 37% don’t check the food hygiene rating of a restaurant before booking their Valentine’s meal.

To help people avoid their dream date...

Creative dating at Exeter Museum

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is getting romantic this February with two events lined up.

The Valentine’s Vintage Ball brings dance music and theatre to the Museum. The Hot Tin Roofs will bring a raucous blend of swing, shake and rhythm & blues.

The Lindy Hoppers will on-hand with dance lessons, Nuts and Volts theatre company will be in residence researching the history of romance and there will be ElectroSwing DJs, Alfie’s Black Cab Photobooth and a vintage dressing up theme.

The event takes place on Saturday 14 February, from 7 to...

Roses are red, violets are blue…

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 02/03/2015 - 10:39am

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Card Market, the greetings card store, wants to hear from Exeter’s most ardent wordsmiths.

Shoppers can post their declarations of love in the windows of the Exeter store with the most creative Casanova winning a romantic dinner for two. Look out for the huge Valentine’s heart in the window of the Exeter store ready for those perfectly penned words of love. It may be poetry or a paragraph, something personal or words that you want to tell the world, Card Market will be looking for the most creative and evocative words of love to fill...

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