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Blast from the Past - 3rd February
2008: I was taking on some more complex tasks at work, though of course that didn't involve more pay.
I was a little concerned about some memory problems I was having - I still get them though and I don't think they've got worse. It's mostly remembering people's names, though usually the actors and characters from shows/films that I've not watched for a long time - I assume the information gets pushed out by new information though it can be very frustrating!
2009: My mum and my trip to the cinema the night before was fine, the snow and ice were fairly clear and there were just little patches of very thick fog on the way home. We went to see Frost/Nixon, I was planning to write a proper review within a few days.
2010: This was the day after my Grandad's funeral. I wrote a detailed breakdown of the day:
Mum went up to help Granny on Monday, so it was up to Phil and I to make our own way in the morning. We left around 7.20 armed only with a post-it note of reminders to help us with our journey. I drove and Phil interpreted the note and sorted out the music. We did pretty good time, arriving at Granny's around 8.30.
Granny's house is one of the places I always feel at home in, it's full of familiar items and happy childhood memories. We had just over an hour before the four of us headed out in Mum's car to Aldershot Crematorium.
We waited in the waiting room as people began arriving that knew Grandad from various places, and family members were among them, family members I had not seen in years. The waiting wasn't too long and then the immediate family (Granny, daughters, grandchildren and partners) waited for the pall bearers to pass by. This was the moment that I found the most upsetting of the whole service, seeing the coffin come past us. It was a very tastefully ornate coffin and the flowers on the top were very beautiful white lilies and roses.
The ten of us then filed in behind the vicar and found our seats at the front of the chapel, slightly disorganised but we were soon settled.
I didn't sing the two hymns, one was All Things Bright and Beautiful, a song I have great trouble with anyway, and the other was a hymn I'd never heard so I just read the lyrics to myself.
As the service was presided over by a (quite young) vicar, it was obviously very religious (CofE though so not too in your face). The parts I most liked were when he was simply talking about Grandad's life and how he came to meet Granny and become a family with her, my mum and her sisters. The other parts passed me by and were of no comfort at all, one thing he said had me visualising heaven as something akin to Avatar with everyone in perfected bodies being more them than they were in life, a very strange belief that I hadn't come across before.
He also made some amusing mistakes and was quite bumbling (very stereotypical English vicar) but that all served to lighten the mood and was actually strangely apt as a memorial to Grandad, who was quite a joker.
After the service we filed out and milled about outside in the freezing cold as all the friends paid their respects and quietly left, leaving just the family to return to Granny's for snacks and as much tea and coffee as you can drink.
It was nice to catch up with these people I've not seen in years, we kept each other entertained with funny anecdotes and my cousin and her fiancé got their iPhones out to show us various apps, which had us giggling for quite a while. Hopefully next time we meet the circumstances will be better.
We finally left around 3, with me driving behind Mum. We were home around 4.30 and I for one felt totally exhausted.
I was back at work on the 3rd, and people had found out why I was having a day off so came over to pay their respects.




See, I've always had small 'memory problems' like that but I've never even thought about worrying about them. Now you made me ><
Hah, well mine haven't got worse over the years so I don't think it's anything too bad though how do you know if you've forgotten something 😱
You have to start to write down everything 😱