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What is your favourite memory?
66Mustang
Member Posts: 3,684 Disability Gamechanger
On the thread about your most prized possession I mentioned that I prefer to have memories than material things. So with that in mind I thought I’d make a similar thread asking what your favourite memory is.
I have a few...
Being driven around a race track in a Lotus Elise by a professional test driver. He went at ridiculous speeds around the corners but I felt completely safe. That said I had no idea a car could take such driving! I would be scared of spinning off!
Getting to drive some beautiful classic cars including an E type Jag around a race track. No cotton gloves - the instructor made me drive them as they were intended which basically meant thrashing them. A great memory for me as I think these cars are meant to be enjoyed not locked away in a garage or museum.
I have a few...
Being driven around a race track in a Lotus Elise by a professional test driver. He went at ridiculous speeds around the corners but I felt completely safe. That said I had no idea a car could take such driving! I would be scared of spinning off!
Getting to drive some beautiful classic cars including an E type Jag around a race track. No cotton gloves - the instructor made me drive them as they were intended which basically meant thrashing them. A great memory for me as I think these cars are meant to be enjoyed not locked away in a garage or museum.
Going to a specialist clinic which has been really helpful. I tried for 25 years to find something that would help me and nothing worked so this clinic was really a godsend.
Over to you...
Over to you...
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I'd say one of mine, from recent memory, is my first night at Leeds Festival.
It was my very first festival and my first taste of a headliner was the Foo Fighters, which was amazing. The whole vibe and atmosphere of a 70,000 person crowd was unbelievable
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Thinking about it I quite like Black Sabbath and lots of younger people know the words to those so I guess there are a few bands with different aged fans
I have the picture of us together on show always sadly my dad passed away 12 years ago
I often find that smaller moments make up some of my favourite memories, rather than bigger things. I played Ultimate Frisbee at university, and so I have lots of great memories from that. One of them was from a tournament we played in where we all stayed in a Scout Hut hall overnight. They'd left the sports equipment that the Scouts used in there so we, a group of 'adults', got hyper on hot chocolate and ran around with children's sports equipment for hours.
Another one was from the national lockdown, which of course hasn't contained too many great memories. I spent the majority of the period alone in my student house, but my housemates moved back for a few weeks so we could all move our stuff out before the end of our tenancy. It was when the weather was amazing, so we all sat outside every night with a few drinks reminiscing on uni memories and building a Friends Lego set. I'm really grateful that I had that time with them.
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Then looking down the steps at the long reflecting pool pointing to the Washington memorial needle and seeing its reflection in the water. Then standing on the step where Martin Luther King delivered his I have a dream speech.
Very moving, so much so. I went back to spend more time there
Watching the sunset in Dubrovnik with my fiancé
Meeting Will Young!
My graduation
My friends hen do where we all dressed as chickens
My nephews being born
Singing Elvis songs with my mum
Flying (in an aeroplane) for the first time
When you really start to think about it, isn't life blimmin' brill. Granted I've had my low times but the good bits all make it worth it
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My wife is Jewish and while on a trip to Prague she suggested we went on a tour of the old Synagogues.
The last one we visited, the oldest one, was sparse of splendour but as we entered we saw every wall from floor to ceiling, every room, large or small, passageways, corridors all covered with names painted in vivid red on white background. All names as I remember where no bigger than around an inch high with little space between each above or below. All of them, thousands of them, so many of them it was impossible to count them and took many years to complete. All names of the Jewish people from Prague who lost their lives in the Holocaust.
Their were rooms dedicated to the children and their families and friends. But to stand and look at all the names that represented real people that once existed brought me to tears.
Very, very moving. A site once witnessed, never to be forgotten.
Sadly soon after we were there a flood washed away many of them.
The term. Lest we forget. Has more meaning to me now and will forever.
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