rewinding the clock. a simple list of memories i have shared with, & involving one set of my grandparents. so i don't forget anything later in life.

• never-ending(and occasionally ending)stories and songs
  • "it was a dark and stormy night, & the Briggins sat around the campfire. Antonio said unto Romeo, "tell me a story brother. and the story went something like this. it was a dark & stormy night..."
  • "you remind me of a man". "what man?". "a man with the power of voodoo". "who do?". "you do". "what?!". "remind me of a man". "what man?"...
  • "oh dear, what can the matter be, two old ladies stuck in the lavatory. they were there from monday to sunday. nobody knew they were there".
• stamp collecting in the back room
• foxtel
• malaysian teas
• the name game
• bad jokes (of which i cried from laughing to much)
  • arthur itius (arthritis)
  • she opened the window & in flu enza.
• norfolk
• risk and mastermind
• sizzler
• fredo frogs & orange juice after school
• trips to the museum
• history lessons
  • english heritiage & family tree
  • aviator & search and rescue days
  • WWII being sent to the countryside
  • land roamed on as children
  • touching stonehenge
• ghost stories of places lived in & been to in england
  • blue lady by the fireplace
  • monk in the cathedral
  • avalon (supposed camelot) man in arthurin dress disappears coming over the cliff top
• art lessons, being sent to the headmasters office for the cane.
  • told to draw something from the lunch stand & the natural product it comes from. drew eggs in birds nest. told by the teacher it looks distasteful, so he say's it looks quite tasteful to me, and folds paper over in half and eats it.
  • to draw a part of an old house in the street. & instead draws a car out side a house with the slightest part of a brick wall.
• old helicopter rescue days
  • beach patrol & how low to the ground they flew to scare off tourists.