Personalised Love Hearts Biography
source (google.com.pk)There must be something in the sugar-coated air at the Love Hearts factory, as the makers of the sweets have claimed their factory is the most loved-up workplace in the UK.
Sweet story alert: Love Hearts factory most romantic workplace in UK
Loved up: Love Hearts (Picture: Flickr/Caro Wallis)
Swizzels Matlow said one in four employees at its factory in Derbyshire was in a relationship with a co-worker, with 61 couples out of a workforce of 500.
The family firm said workers had even started their romance by sending each other personalised Love Hearts along the factory production line.
‘All 61 couples met at work and now many are married, engaged or have children,’ said the sweet firm’s director Jeremy Dee.
‘Love Hearts clearly inspire romance.’
The company makes two billion Love Hearts every year at 28p a pack, with the most common phrases being ‘I love you’; ‘Kiss Me’; ‘First Love’; ‘All mine’; and ‘Just you’.
Amorous sweetie fans wanting to capitalise on the Love Hearts effect this Valentine’s Day should be aware of some of the sweet’s more ambiguous messages, however, such as ‘Gee whizz’; ‘LOL’; and ‘Just say no’.
make for a pleasing pairing in The Vow but while there are some absorbing twists, the detail is so highly polished it all looks unreal.
The Vow is a chocolate box of date clichés for Valentine’s Day
Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams make for a pleasing pairing in The Vow
The default date movie for Valentine’s Day also claims to be inspired by true events. (This rather prompts the question – what movie doesn’t owe something to true events? James Cameron probably says the same thing about Avatar.)
In this case, ‘inspired by’ is a euphemism for giving the potentially heartbreaking true story of Krickitt Carpenter, who suffered brain damage that rubbed out all memories of her husband, a Hollywood makeover so that everything looks pretty but sounds tinny.
The premise has potential conflict aplenty – after Paige (Rachel McAdams) wakes up from a coma, she can’t remember her kooky life with Leo (Channing Tatum) but she feels right at home with her snooty parents and the posh lifestyle she abandoned five years previously. Where does she now belong?
McAdams and Tatum make for a pleasing pairing and there are some salty pretzel twists in the standard boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl plot. But the detail is so highly polished it all looks unreal. It’s unlikely Ms Carpenter got to choose between being a sculptor or a lawyer. Or that she split her time between a cool loft apartment and daddy’s country mansion. Or that it always snowed right on cue.
If only life with Leo had been hard yet real, then you might have rich drama, but at all the points where director Michael Sucsy needs to be digging for true grit, he’s content to serve a chocolate box of date clichés. Well, it is Valentine’s Day.
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