Valentines related newsitems

• • The impetuous passions of “marathoners” on Valentines Day

    • 23 Mar 2009
    • Wellington Runners & Walkers (WRW)
    • On 14th February 2009 Leang and I were “spicing up” our Valentines night by attending a concert in Chiang Mai, Thailand which was billed as “Romantic Italian and Spanish classical guitar serenades”. However, when parking the family truck at the concert hall, we suddenly both looked at each other, as across the road from us there appeared to be a “gantry” being set up on the University entrance drive-way. In unison we said, “That must be a start/finish line for a race event.”
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    Roses are red

    • 13 Feb 2009
    • Te Papa's blog
    • Valentine’s Day and red roses are inextricably linked. Here is a bouquet of rose -inspired objects from our collections. Rose tile
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    Latrodectus Love Bites

    • 12 Feb 2009
    • Te Papa's blog
    • St Valentine's widow spider   In honour of Valentine’s Day this post will look at the wonderful world of courtship in the spider genus Latrodectus, more commonly known as the widow spiders. Readers of my previous post will recall this genus includes species such as the American black widow (Latrodectus mactans), the Australian redback (L. hasseltii) and the New Zealand katipo (L. katipo), all
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    Valentines day: roses are what?

    • 11 Feb 2009
    • Te Papa's blog
    •   Margaret Stoddart, Roses, 1920s In Europe during the 1300s February 14th was thought to be the day when birds paired off to mate. This date was originally an ancient Greco-Roman pagan festival, and was later called St Valentines Day Feast by the Church. Since the 1300s, on February 14th each year, roses (and flowers in general),  have been widely accepted as gifts and Saint Valentines Day is now
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