The most surprising and heartening aspects of what I posted above are:
3. My 'older yesterdays' now come to mind, but until I joined BF, brum didn't cross
my mind once in 6 months, thus
4. The forum acts as a stimulus. It's content, you people, has enabled me to recall
things I'd completely forgotten, and I'm very glad of that.
The scale and detail of recollection - complete conversations, triggered by a related string of thoughts, have leapt into life in my mind, complete with parts of the setting, (e.g. I recall a picture but not the wallpaper or curtains) or the lino, but not the mat.
I'd always thought I had a decent memory but had no idea how unconsciously selective it had become - it hadn't forgotten (rubbed out) it had prioritised and compartmentalised, and it has taken you on BF to orient my mind in the appropriate directions for recall ------ THANK YOU VERY MUCH