Before I tell you the rest of this story, I need to explain about a different sort of cards – playing cards. A pack of playing cards contains 52 cards; there are 4 different suits with 13 cards in each. There are two red suits called hearts and diamonds, and two black suits called clubs and spades. Hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades – these words have ordinary meanings in English as well as being the names of suits of cards. Look them up in a dictionary if you need to.

　　Back to Valentines Day. My wife is a teacher. Last week the children in her class made Valentine cards, and wrote a poem or a message inside the card. Some of the poems were, well, not very good. For example:

　　“Roses are red

　　Violets are blue

　　You’re not very pretty

　　But I love you!”

　　But one girl wrote:

　　“A relationship with a man is like a pack of cards.

　　You need a heart to love him with

　　A diamond to marry him with

　　A club to hit him with

　　And a spade to bury him with.”

　　An interesting thought!

　　The music is today is called My Irish Valentine by the Brobdingnagian Bards and it comes to you from the Podsafe Music Network.

　　More romance in the next episode.