Sleep and time.

[Arthur Little]

... strange how dreams can so easily evoke long-forgotten memories ... I fairly frequently dream about my parents (sadly, now BOTH deceased) as though they're still alive and how, even many years later, their HUGE influence on my early upbringing still prevails.

[mickcant]

... strange how dreams can so easily evoke long-forgotten memories ... I fairly frequently dream about my parents (sadly, now BOTH deceased) as though they're still alive and how, even many years later, their HUGE influence on my early upbringing still prevails.

I too had a happy childhood that I look back on often

I am not very religious but have some beliefs or perhaps hopes!

My parents died in 1987 and 1996, but I talk to them in my thoughts every night about family matters and tend to their grave weekly I have much respect for how they struggled in harder times.

My mother's parents died when she was very young, so my parents started married with mums 7 younger sibling with them to prevent the family being split up.

This was in 1928 well before the welfare state helped, then went on and had 8 children of their own.

I write my memories in a folder attached to my family tree and perhaps after I have gone my children will be interested in them, but I write them for me.

Mick.