We had a stay-in night last year. I decided to be very ambitious (had a 10 week old) and make a special dinner. It was a stinking hot day, so I made gazpacho with heart shaped chilli and olive polenta croutons, and chocolate custards with heart shaped pink-iced wafer dippers.

I was totally on track to get it all done before he came home, but darling DH, being lovely, decided he would come home early, and the place was a shambles, and it wasn't a nice surprise for him after all, but we still had a nice night Then that weekend we busted down to the Gold Coast for a mini-break.