Remembering Mugs

'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'."

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

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

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

'Forget what?'

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

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

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

"I cross the road to forget."

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

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

'Where Are They Now?'

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

'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.'

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

'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.'

The unknown war poet.

'You're always living in the past.'

'Here we go again...'

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