This is the time you are told love is in the air, along with inflated paper hearts and red balloons. But if you want to escape all the glitz and find quiet romance among the piers and patios, or find a new experience to immerse yourself in, this weekend may just be right.

Pick up a new skill:

Brew your own coffee: Skip the champagne and raise a toast with coffee that you brew on Valentines Day. Dreamers Caf, which sits close to the Visitors Centre, known for its pastries and coffee blended by Marc Tormo, will give visitors an insight into the rituals of coffee making, from roasting beans to making different blends. The team at the caf, enriched by its tour of coffee farms and participation in the World Cacao Summit 2014, is keen to share its experiences with those who swear by coffee or want to roast their own cacao. You may walk away with a recipe or two after the session that will begin at 4 p.m.

Grow your own paper: If the smell of paper is your favourite scent on earth, then you should give this workshop a try and gain an ancient but cool skill making your own paper. Auroville Papers, which has been manufacturing handmade paper and paper products for 15 years, will guide participants in harvesting plants, preparing fibre, making pulp, and carrying out the different techniques of couching, lifting and drying and ultimately making their own creations out of handmade paper. Materials will be supplied at the workshop on February 14. For fees and details, call 0413 2622 122

Try warm water as therapy: Lying back and letting warm water wash all over you is a languid alternative to a day filled with exploration. The Paradise Spa at the Dune Eco Resort has introduced Watsu, a Zen Shiatsu inspired treatment which taps into the therapeutic benefits of warm water. Couples can avail themselves of special sessions on February 14. The therapy apparently allows you to float freely, with the waters rhythm providing light acupressure and replicating a cradling movement akin to a baby suspended in the womb.

If music be the food of love:

Pondy is all ready to rock, roll and jazz with eight back-to-back concerts lined up for a four day music festival which forms the highlight of the month-long Pondy Partages 2015, hosted by the Alliance Francaise and Department of Tourism.

Bengaluru-based Mad Orange Fireworks will get Friday night on its feet with their own brand of music which they call as Orange Rock- a blend of jazz, rock, funk and pop. Following the act is Ministry of Blues who do not play lonesome, soulful blues but rather infuse classic blues with modern rock. Kicking Saturday night into swinging mode will be Latination, a quartet comprising French and Indian musicians whose promise to mix up some rumba with modern jazz, Latin boleros with compelling Afro-Cuban dance music. Chennai-based F16 will end the night taking alternative dance music to a high-energy level. Sunday night begins with a strong tropical breeze as Monique Fatna renders Caribbean spiritual numbers. Bringing the curtains down are Lagori, whose brand of music is touted to be a catchy combination of Indian classical melodies with Rock music. All concerts are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at the Kamban Kalai Arangam.

Screen Affair:

This weekend Auroville hosts a marathon of a different kind one that will appeal to film buffs rather than fitness freaks. The 7 Panorama of Contemporary Indian Cinema, a collaborative initiative by Aurofilm and the Directorate of Film Festivals, Delhi will screen movies in the regional languages, including Bengali, Kannada, Marathi and Odia on all three days of the weekend. The movies span a spectrum of subjects from a relationship between two dwarves who work in a circus (Chhotoder Chobri) and a mother-child relationship that explores the conflict between scientific curiosity and spiritual traditions (Elisabeth Ekadashi) to an Odisha tribes first contact with modern civilization in Adim Vishar) and indebtedness in rural Maharashtra (Ek Hazarachi Note). P. Sheshadri, Kannada director behind various award-winning films, will participate in the festival at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas in Auroville.

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A BUNDAMBA couple has been left $1400 out of pocket after the company they paid to supply two roller garage doors vanished with barely a trace.

John and Val Vogel were devastated to find the premises of Patios and Sheds Ipswich locked and deserted, after the company failed to deliver and install a roller-door kit they'd paid a deposit for before Christmas.

Mr Vogel, who is terminally ill, and Mrs Vogel, said they didn't even have a way of contacting the company, with phone numbers not working and the company's website now shut down.

The Vogels are not the only people who have been left out of pocket, with the QT being told that Patios and Sheds Ipswich had been locked out of its Warwick Rd premises due to the non-payment of rent.

Mrs Vogel said she and her husband had taken the matter up with the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, which was now investigating Patios and Sheds Ipswich.

"We went out there just before Christmas," Mrs Vogel said.

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"After a few weeks of waiting we decided to go around there to see them.

"When we arrived, nearly everything was gone.

"There was a phone number on the fence for the person who owns the property."

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Dear editor,

This is a comment to the good folks of Lazo/Point Holmes who recently made a delegation to their council about doing something about the mosquitoes that plagued them last summer.They complained that they could not sit on their patios and they needed to stay indoors all summer. They wanted the local governments to do something about the problem.

Well, I have an easy solution that does not require our local governments to take time out of their busy schedules or spend tax dollars on expensive studies. It is time that the public take some responsibility for their own welfare.

The homeowners can build bat boxes and swallow boxes and put them up on tress around their own homes.You can find easy directions on how to build them on the Internet or in the library - or watch this video bit.ly/1jAWgwj

You will also find good information about where to place them - how high - what direction they should face and how to care for annually. This is a great opportunity to learn about nature in your own backyard.Mosquitoes are a big part of the food chain. These bats and birds will take very good care of your mosquito problem without having to use pesticides.

Try it. Youll like it.

Maj Birch,

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