Alzheimer's is a terrible thing! It doesn't really seem to run very strongly in our family, but quite a few of my older relative battled dementia in there later years.

I think I'm okay for the moment touchwood, but there are already pieces of my somewhat distant past memory that feel a bit like Swiss cheese. I just as well chronicle some of those things while they're still available in the old memory banks!

I always enjoyed it when my auntie - who raised me - would talk about some of the interesting events and adventures from her own and the family's past. But my cousins and I always had to really bug her to allow us to record these things so that they would be available for future generations. She always felt like nobody would care. All these years later, what would be the great grandkids to her generation find the whole thing fascinating so we're glad we went to the trouble.