The first Valentine's Day with one (ex) boyfriend was a bit rubbish. We'd only been going out a couple of weeks so I wasn't expecting anything extravagant. I wrote him a short (not overly mushy) love letter.

Valentine's Day began with him getting up to be in at work for 6am as he'd volunteered to work an early shift. We worked at the same place and all of our friends were saying that no doubt he'd buy flowers etc on the way back from work. But no - he went out to the pub and didn't get in until after 11.

Although I wasn't expecting flowers/meals/presents, I thought a bit of consideration would have gone a long way!

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This was the most memorable Valentine's Day for the wrong reasons. I'd cooked the steak and chips perfectly, salad and homemade coleslaw on the side, a few onion rings. Taken the plates through, and gone back into the kitchen to get some ketchup and mustard in time to see the chip pan vanish into flame and smoke. Just as well my partner didn't panic and flap like I do, and managed to put the fire out. It was a near miss though, and it took a while to damp everything down and get rid of all the smoke. By which time the food was also cold, and we were too tired to do more than eat a takeaway, and snooze in front of the telly. Hot stuff huh!

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On holiday in Acapulco my husband arranged for us to eat in the evening at a cliff-top restaurant over-looking the sea-excellent food,candles & fairy lights everywhere with "hot and cold running waiters"!

Earlier in the day I had admired a "cheesey" vest top in a boutique window-it had a picture of a kitten wearing sunglasses on it,and the legend "Ocean Girl" emblazoned on the front.

My husband said nothing,but after the meal a waiter brought a large plate covered by a silver dome.He said it was a "special dish" for me.

When I took the cover off,it was the vest top....

Don't know how my husband bought the top without me knowing-I can't remember him being away from me that long!

I still have the top,and the wonderful memories....

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Many years ago, I bought my husband a soppy Valentine's card, with a picture of two dinosaurs kissing.

When you opened it up, it made a loud sqeaky noise and said 'Even after all these years, you still light my fire'.

Every few years or so, he gets it again. A couple of times, I disguised as a business letter and sent it to his office. The staff thought it was a great joke.

Well, it's been quite a while (we've been married 29 years!) and he's probably forgotten the card, so he's going to get it again this year. It never fails to make him smile - and that's what Valentine's Day should be about - a shared happy memory, or two.

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The first Valentine's Day my partner and I spent together was just 2 months after we first met. I was due to go travelling with a friend three months later and was waiting for the right moment to tell my new man.

He'd cooked us dinner and we settled down to watch rom-com 'Down to You'. As the story unfolded I realised that it was the wrong night to reveal my plans - the film was about two college students, Imogen and Al, who fall in love, before Imogen decides to sleep with someone else and move away, leaving Al in an alcohol-assisted state of depression! Luckily it wasn't a direct parallel of how things turned out, but I was squirming throughout the entire film!

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It was years ago, my boyfriend at the time, Gordon, was very shy and hardly said a word, gave me a very sloppy card and the single Puppy Love by Donny Osmond. Totally over the top and very worrying so I called it a day, and he burst into tears. His mother than rang and gave me a hardtime for breaking his heart!

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And my fiance has NEVER let me forget it. We went out for a Thai meal (to a restaurant that has unsurprisingly closed down since) hoping to relive the nostalgia and romance of previous trips to SE Asia but quite simply, the food sucked and was about as authenically Thai as I am (I was born in Wales). Maybe this year we will go to McDonalds...

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Every Valentine's Day since 2002 has been equally memorable for me.

I got in contact with Lesley, an old friend, in January of that year having not seen her for 20 years.

Pretty soon we realised that we had made a silly mistake drifting apart after a brief courtship in the 1980's - we were made for each other.

We lived 120 miles apart but soon decided we wanted to be together and in 2003 we married and had a beautiful baby daughter, Olivia nine months and one day later!

Despite recently turning 50 I still feel so lucky every day, never mind Valentine's Day, to have found love at last and I would like nothing more than to have something wonderful to mark this year's occasion.

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