What to get her for a Valentine’s Day gift? Something that isn’t too dull — like flowers and chocolates. A Valentine’s Day gift that isn’t too commercial or cliched — like some ghastly bit of tat from Clinton Cards. Hmmm… tricky!

What we can tell you is that women want romance. We know this because a leading women’s gift retailer called pressies4princesses (OK, so they are owned by the same people as us), did a web survey. They asked female visitors what they most wanted: an extravagant gift, some romance or hot passion. Now, if a retailer was going to fuge these numbers, they’d have backed extravagant gift, I’m guessing. But, guess what? Romance got 2/3rds of the vote. By the way, sorry lads but hot passion was very much last with only 10%. You lucky 10% know who you are!