{"id":5977,"date":"2016-02-14T07:58:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T07:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2016-02-13T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T16:59:43","slug":"my-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=5977","title":{"rendered":"My  Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/02\/12\/050212_n681.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry that I won&#8217;t feel well enough to attend the Reclaim Love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/151841295197113\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valentine Party<\/a> I&#8217;ve been to at least a part of every year&#8217;s celebration since <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/02\/feb2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">2005<\/a>, when Venus Cumara organised it around the statue of Eros for the first time (the previous year that I&#8217;d missed it had been in Trafalgar Square and I was in Paris.)<\/p>\n<p>We were back <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/02\/feb.htm\" target=\"_blank\">there in 2006<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/02\/11\/060211_d0431.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And for a rather <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2007\/02\/feb.htm\" target=\"_blank\">smaller event in 2007<\/a> without Venus:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2007\/02\/17\/070217_d0231.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But Venus was back and <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2008\/02\/feb.htm#reclaim\" target=\"_blank\">spraying love around the area<\/a> in 2008:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2008\/02\/16\/pm20080216-d0743.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2009\/02\/feb.htm#reclaim\" target=\"_blank\">2009 was another good year<\/a>,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2009\/02\/14\/20090214-d1112.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/02\/feb.htm#love\" target=\"_blank\">And 2010<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/02\/13\/20100213-d1089.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/02\/feb.htm#love\" target=\"_blank\">In 2011<\/a> Venus took everyone &#8211; around 250 people &#8211; to the ring of trees in Green Park and the police were not amused.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/02\/12\/20110212-d0729.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2012\/02\/feb.htm#reclaim\" target=\"_blank\">I left early in 2012<\/a> when torrential rain threatened to flood my cameras, but not before joining in the fun and taking quite a few pictures<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2012\/02\/18\/20120218-d0339.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2013\/02\/feb.htm#love\" target=\"_blank\">late for the party<\/a> in 2013 having been with friends who were blocking Whitehall but not too late:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2013\/02\/16\/20130216-d996.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2014\/02\/feb.htm#reclaim\" target=\"_blank\">And in 2014<\/a>, things seemed to start rather slowly but I was sorry I had to rush away:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2014\/02\/15\/20140215-d1104.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2015\/02\/feb.htm#reclaimlove\" target=\"_blank\">Last year<\/a> was another good year:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2015\/02\/14\/20150214-d885-Edit.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;ll be sorry to miss this year&#8217;s event, but I probably shouldn&#8217;t go a spread my germs to everyone even if I do feel fit enough to make it.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll miss the &#8216;bands, dancing and a &#8220;<em>Massive Healing Reclaim Love Meditation Circle beaming Love and Happiness and our Vision for world peace out into the cosmos<\/em>&#8220;. We could certainly do with peace and should I make a miraculous recovery I&#8217;ll be there with the rest at 6pm in time for the World Peace Meditation at 6.30pm chanting &#8216;<em>May All The Beings In All The Worlds Be Happy &#038; At Peace&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden; width: 450px; height: 80px;\" src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/follow?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpeter.marshall.712&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;width=450&amp;height=80\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">My London Diary<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/londonphotographs.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buildings of London<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/river-lea.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">River Lea\/Lee Valley<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/petermarshallphotos.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">London&#8217;s Industrial Heritage<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small>All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/small><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small><a href=\"http:\/\/buildingsoflondon.co.uk\/comments.htm\" target=\"_blank\">To order prints or reproduce images<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry that I won&#8217;t feel well enough to attend the Reclaim Love Valentine Party I&#8217;ve been to at least a part of every year&#8217;s celebration since 2005, when Venus Cumara organised it around the statue of Eros for the first time (the previous year that I&#8217;d missed it had been in Trafalgar Square and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=5977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My  Valentine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5979,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions\/5979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}