Remembering Gifts

'Alzheimers Society Raffle' "You won't forget to make the draw will you?"

"My husband has such a good memory: He's never missed a birthday or a wedding anniversary..."

"Gordo...why do I still think of you? Maybe it's because the times we spent together makes me smile."

Vera Lynn.

"You're very interesting, for a civilian."

My First Camera

"I'm going to talk about the summer before last, it was much more fun."

Historical memory is on life support.

Servicemen.

"Those are the names of your children? I went a different route...I memorized my kids' names."

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

"10th Anniversary Woodstock Reunion'

Super Strength, Impervious to Bullets And Explosions

"I guess I was a good shot, because I took down 50 Nazis...all by myself. That's how I got my silver star. Honestly, I don't consider myself a hero. I consider myself lucky."

"Remember back in the day when I was a real heartbreaker?" "Riiight... now the only thing you break is wind."

"I love that you still call me 'honey'."

"Remember, history was easier back in your day. There's so much more of it now."

"I remember that game of Spin-the-Bottle like it was yesterday. It was love at firstspin."

'Forget what?'

'That's a picture of my granddad with shoulder length hair and a beard. That's why mom calls these albums hair looms.'

"Remember when we had to get along on twenty-one dollars a month!"

Remember my mum? I took that photo a week before she died. There's one of me...that was a good haircut.

"I cross the road to forget."

I painted them all from memory.

"It's going over the top? D' you realise what you've just said?"

"See those birch trees on the other side of the pond? That’s the exact spot where your mother first called me an idiot."

"We fell for this last time remember..."

The unknown war poet.

'You're always living in the past.'

'Where Are They Now?'

'My old Nehru suit! And in a pocket there's still a bottle of aftershave lotion from the glove box of my '55 Nash Rambler.'

"We laughed. We cried. But mostly we watched TV."

'Admit it, you've been laughing behind my back ever since 1957 when we went in that hall of mirrors in Skegness!'

'Who said the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Just look at that card Hans Greber and we have haven't been shot at all day.'

'Ol' Pete was an angler to the end.'