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It's all very well Ouch! running Kissability competitions; publishing the top ten disability Valentine love messages; and encouraging its message board users to complete lovey dovey verse with a disability twist. It's easy to get equal access to all the hearts and flowers stuff in cyberspace. But what happens when you're a wheelie and you want to take your wife out for a romantic, candle-lit meal on Valentine's Day?

Well, apparently, if you live in Milton Keynes, you can either attempt to feel all loved-up in the harshly-lit ambience of your local pizza parlour, or you can . Douglas and Jan Campbell have been married for 31 years, and both love fine food and fine wine. But - as you can see from their faces in the photograph which accompanies the article - they're disappointed that they won't be able to access MK's gourmet restaurants. (Lady Bracknell used to live in Milton Keynes in the days when it was fondly referred to as 'The Concrete Cowpat'. She doesn't recall it being awash with gourmet restaurants then. In fact, she used to go to Bedford when she wanted to eat out. Clearly, things have changed in the last ten years. They've got an Ikea now, and everything. But she digresses . . .)

So, Douglas and Jan will be staying in tonight and cooking something special. Which is fine if that's what somebody wants to do for Valentine's Day, but they don't. They want to have a meal out.

Is that really too much to ask?

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