family oral history

i know, i know! i have spent too much time having a life, and not enough screen time!! But before I catch up, i just wanted to write something about how lovely it is to have an oral history of the family. SB isn’t very well, i think she has a mix of tonsillitis and too late to bed last nightitis so we had a prolonged snuggle in bed to get her comfy, and we were doing that discussing random topics, and she was worrying about cloning humans and clone wars, so in my reassurance i thought that tho it could be possible, it would be unlikely in mine or her lifetime, so she was worrying for her grandaughter so i said i was unlikely to meet her grandaughter so she should think of nice things about me to tell her [it was a distraction honest, not a fish for compliments ] and so she happily told me of what she would say and pictures to show [only the nice ones mummy] and then what she remembered of the relatives of mine – grandad herbert and nanny stagles – who she had never met [my great grandparents] and their stories. and snuggling her, telling stories of little nanny and the elephant, nanny sylvia and the broken wrists as a child etc, it struck me how precious our family memories are, that they aren’t written down anywhere, despite it being possible, and the sharing of the stories keeps the threads of family alive. just cuddling and talking, of pasts and futures. absolutely wonderful hour thankyou SB