Before I tell you why Elevator by U2 is my fourth life changer, I feel compelled to tell you that this shot was spectacularly difficult – it’s very cold here and the shot had to be done in the garden because I couldn’t get the height I wanted in the house. I reckon it may be around freezing point at the moment. I needed two studio lights to get the composition I wanted – the one in the shot is symbolic of the sun. I am standing on a tall stool with a seat diameter of probably less than 12” and to get onto it and switch the camera on, I had to climb onto a garden chair, set the self timer and then get myself into position – no mean feat when I’m scared of heights. So Jeanne – I hope you are satisfied with this, my last wig-shot.

Now, onto the song. Well, if there is any song that can be said to be ‘our song’ for DM and me, this is it. It was the song that clinched our love and many years of smouldering passion. I’ll leave how it did that to the many fertile imaginations of my many friends here on PBASE for the sake of the blushes of my family and David himself.

Every time I hear the song, I get a knot in my stomach and remember that day back in November 2000 when we finally, after what seems like an eternity, found one another. Thanking U2 for bringing me my man is something I will always do.

My world has never been the same since that day – I feel as though my life has started at long last and that I have a purpose that I totally lacked before. It will never be the same again because I know that even if things don’t work out for us (though in my heart I believe firmly that they will) then ‘it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.’ My world is a new world now and this Valentine’s Day I celebrate love and my own good fortune with fervour.

My world had a moral dilemma in it last year!