I remember the spoon a nurse said she was going to get for my wife’s toffee yogurt, even though she had asked for jelly. She also asked for vegetable soup and they brought tomato. So she hardly ate anything, especially as she was already feeling sick and double-especially as the nurse forgot to get the spoon I remember her going to get.

I remember a video game where you had an overhead view of yourself driving a car around courses that were built around domestic environments – eg a breakfast table or a desk with pencils and rulers and so on.  So it was just like playing with a toy car, driving it around the table top. No idea what format it was, but obviously a little way on from ping pong.

I remember: ‘Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started. Wait - the Earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool, Neanderthals developed tools, we built a wall (we built the pyramids). Math, science, history, unravelling the mysteries that all started with the big bang. Hey!’

I remember waiting outside a cinema in Wimbledon (there were several – this was the one down the Broadway on the other side from the theatre) and asking someone (ie a grown-up) to get us into the film because it was an A, so children weren’t allowed in unaccompanied. I thought it was a Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin film that I particularly wanted to see, but according to Wikipedia their last film together was in 1956. I would have been four – I don’t think my mum would have allowed that!

I remember Ron Howard’s character in The Smith Family using the expression ‘I want to rap’ meaning ‘I want to chat’ to his father played by the amazing Henry Fonda or to his sister played by the gorgeous Darleen Carr. He sounded absurd/pretentious, and I don’t think we in Blighty had heard of rap music at the time. I believe Henry Fonda often used to put his gun away in a shoebox in his wardrobe.

I remember Finetime Fontayne – one-time member of the Coronation Street cast – and was reminded of him when I recently heard on the news the name of the Nigerian president - Goodluck Jonathan.