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Yesterday I felt a sense of doom, for most of the day, had been  at work, and in the back of my mind, something was wrong. I didn't know what was wrong. I didn't know what it was, but I knew something was bothering me.

I then stopped to think, what it was. I realized that, it was the news that I had heard, it was to do with work: it was to do with another person. So, it wasn't good news, but very bad news. I wanted to talk about it to someone, but I didn't know who to talk about it to, I was 'glad' that I was working on my own, for the whole time I wa at work. If I was working with someone, I might have talked about what was bothering me. That would have been very bad. Over the hours that I wa on my own, eventually I came to the conclusion, that I must keep the info to myself, for it wouldn't be fair to the other person. I knew I would feel bad, if I said anything, about that person.

It was goood that I was on my own, and slowly because I decided to do the right thing, the sense of doom went.

The situation reminded me of someone else I had worked with for twenty years ago. Over the years I have worked with different work colleguge, one person stood out for me. I was thinking about her this morning, I could see her face as clear as day, but I couldn't remember her name. She was my least fabourite colleguge. How odd, that her name escaped me. I was thinking, how could I possibly forget her name!

I remember, watching documentaries of older people age 100 talking about the war and friends and family and naming them, and I am in my 60's and I am strugging to remember her name .

A lovely friend at work, she is over 20 years older than I, whenever she can't remember a person's name, she always does the same thing, starting at A she goes slowly through the alphabet and before she gets to Z she has got the person's name. I have never tried that method, so this morning I tried it, and it was SO strange, the mind, I was thinking how will I know when I have got it right? I also thought, if I can't remember her christian name, how will I know her surname? How will I know that I have got it right?

I thought is her name Angie? I didn't think so, I thought is her name Joanne?  I wasn't sure, that didn't ring a bell.

I was stumped, for me that method hadn't worked. I had thought, that by this evening, having relaxed my mind, that it would just come to me, but it didn't.

I thought about her, while I was at my Mum's this evening, and when I came home. I was tempted to cheat and ask amother person that I worked with, but William my brother had said, "Don't always use Google, to find the answer, use your mind, to try to remember." He was right, it was 'easy'  to use Google, for everything, without even trying to remember, that film, that actor, etc.

Then a few seconds ago her full name came to me! I had to smile .

My friend's method didn't work for me, writing about it did.

E&OE