Have you £40,000 ($49,215) to splash out on your Valentines this February? This gold finished rose … [+] Blooming Haus It’s that time of year again. The ebb and flow of retail reliably takes us from Christmas, through to clearance sales and to the next full price moment in the trading calendar, February 14. But what is ‘This Thing Called Love’ ? A simple four letter word that is firmly embedded in the zeitgeist. A quick search acknowledges that it is one of the most popular words in song titles. It ‘Lifts Us Up Where We Belong’, ‘It Is a Many Splendored Thing’, and according to Beyonce… we are crazy when in it. The Beatles used the word a staggering 613 times in their lyrics. Yet when a word refer to so many things, from the consumer loving their McDonalds value meal to the wealth of emotion tied into the way we feel about ourselves and others, it can be a difficult to pin down exactly what it means. Unlike English, the Greek language, rather helpfully distinguishes four kinds of love. I’ve simplified for the purposes of explanation: Philia is the kind of love found in strong friendships Eros […]