Comments on: I was going to marry Elvis… early goals, learning and memory issues #MondayBlogs https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/i-was-going-to-marry-elvis-early-goals-learning-and-memory-issues-mondayblogs/ Tue, 03 Nov 2020 08:52:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: Georgia Rose https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/i-was-going-to-marry-elvis-early-goals-learning-and-memory-issues-mondayblogs/#comment-7054 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 08:52:52 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=4390#comment-7054 In reply to Luccia Gray.

Do you know what, Luccia, I’m going to live by that in future… it doesn’t matter! I apply that to most other areas of my life anyway so why not here. Thanks for commenting, and you have a great day too! 🙂

]]> By: Luccia Gray https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/i-was-going-to-marry-elvis-early-goals-learning-and-memory-issues-mondayblogs/#comment-7052 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 08:00:46 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=4390#comment-7052 Lovely post, Mary! I hear you when you refer to the past, or parts of it as a ‘blur’! I feel that way too, and I’ve decided it doesn’t matter!
I was at a Simply Red concert, a few years ago, and Michael Hucknall was introducing each song, saying which album and year each one came from and a few tidbits, and suddenly, towards the end of the concert, he said something like, ‘I can’t remember the album or the year, it’s all a blur, but you know something, it doesn’t matter.’ And right then I understood (at least I think I understood) that what he meant was that the past sort of merges into one huge event, instead of succession of small events, and I’m fine with that. We only have the present moment and the past is just a succession of present momentos merging. I don’t know where all this came from, I just got up and I probably need a coffee! By the way, I remember when Elvis died too. He wasn’t my favourite singer, but one of my best friends at the time, was a fan, like you, and she cried for days. I was a bit older than you, a teenager, at least, but again it’s all a blur…
Have a great day!

]]> By: Georgia Rose https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/i-was-going-to-marry-elvis-early-goals-learning-and-memory-issues-mondayblogs/#comment-7050 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:51:17 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=4390#comment-7050 In reply to Alistair Dunlop.

Oh crikey! I hadn’t considered that possibility… and I do struggle with what day if the week I’m on too…

]]> By: Alistair Dunlop https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/i-was-going-to-marry-elvis-early-goals-learning-and-memory-issues-mondayblogs/#comment-7049 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:44:46 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=4390#comment-7049 Don’t want to worry you, Georgia, but many demetia sufferers enjoy a singalong with all the old favourites, and they remember all the words. If only I could remember what day it is today.

]]> By: Georgia Rose https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/i-was-going-to-marry-elvis-early-goals-learning-and-memory-issues-mondayblogs/#comment-7048 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:13:41 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=4390#comment-7048 In reply to EJ Lamprey.

I can relate to your mum – haha! Keep calling my grandson by my son’s name at the moment.

That’s really interesting about the Zulu – I mean, how cool would it be to roll that out as a second language, so it’s a shame it didn’t stick completely.

Cliff Richard!?! Although I did take a shine to him in Summer Holiday 😀 but I understand you wavering in your commitment once David Essex appeared… hmmm…

]]> By: EJ Lamprey https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/i-was-going-to-marry-elvis-early-goals-learning-and-memory-issues-mondayblogs/#comment-7047 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:24:48 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=4390#comment-7047 Your memory’s bad? When my mum was shouting for me, having found evidence of some innocent little peccadillo, she quite often shouted my sister’s name – then Aurora! (dog) Athene! (dog) and finally ELIZABETH!!! by which time I could be well away …

Not entirely sure early learning in itself sticks around, there may have to be passionate interest as well? I do know that when I started school at 4 I only spoke Zulu – I wasn’t the only child who came to school with her nanny for the first month, there were at least a dozen of us. We moved to Johannesburg a few years later, and I have only a handful of phrases and a few songs left now. I’m certainly not saying learning a language early is a waste, I started English at 4 and can still speak it fluently 😀

I was going to marry Cliff Richard, who was obligingly single, no wife to see off, although my allegiance wavered when first I saw and heard David Essex – I’m a floozy at heart but like you I remember song lyrics from those intense times. Great blog 😀

]]> By: Georgia Rose https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/i-was-going-to-marry-elvis-early-goals-learning-and-memory-issues-mondayblogs/#comment-7046 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:56:13 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=4390#comment-7046 In reply to Rosie.

Hahaha… I love that, Rosie. A secret language, like you say, is completely useless, unless you’re at a school reunion, but how interesting that you can still do it today, and yet, I daresay, have practised it little over the years.

]]> By: Rosie https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/i-was-going-to-marry-elvis-early-goals-learning-and-memory-issues-mondayblogs/#comment-7045 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:06:13 +0000 https://www.georgiarosebooks.com/?p=4390#comment-7045 I remember learning a secret language at school, we put a v and a g in each word, but kept the rest of the word sound the same, for instance ‘do’ became ‘dvgoo’. It lengthened every word, but we could speak it quite fast with a little practice. I can still do it today. But I don’t know what use it is?

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