What do you want to do on your birthday? I said.

I just want to stay home and be with you, he said.

So, I decided to make a special effort for supper - so a full-on home-made curry - including poppadoms and special mint sauce, home-made onion bhajis, veggie korma and channa dhal, all washed down with a couple of bottles of Cobra in the candle light.

Very romantic and very pleasureable.