A special gift!

About 6 weeks before DH’s birthday, his daughters contacted his friends, work colleagues and family asking for memories, stories/anecdotes or photos of their father. I was recruited to help them with obtaining lists of people who could help and of course find email addresses of these people. Might I add there was a fair bit of detective work on my behalf finding ways of contacting friends from school days and also from the years DH was involved in the Brisbane amateur theatre scene in the 60s and 70s. 😆

The girls hoped to get 70 items but of course not everyone wrote back...but at least 50 people did reply. And on the Saturday night at Bribie a box of memories was presented to DH. We’d kept the secret really well as did those people the girls had contacted and it was a big surprise for the birthday boy. 

So on the night, DsD3 is ready to hand over the memories box but first she presented DH with a special golfers’  watch. 

DH needs to remove his glasses to read so that’s the first step after the box is handed over 😉. 


In 2 sessions during the evening he read out the messages. Some made us laugh especially those from friends from his teen years and definitely those from former work colleagues.


Here’s one from a theatre days friend...


Here’s one from a work colleague of mine...


From my brother...


One of Bruce’s school friends who now lives in Melbourne went to card making classes to learn how to make a special card...


Her message...


A friend of mine for many years wrote if the first time she met DH...and at the time she thought that she might have frightened him off! 🤣


DH’s former wife wrote a lovely tribute...an excerpt.

My anecdotes 😉

And with some detective work I found Diane a former childhood neighbour of DH. She wrote about the band that DH was the lead singer for...

And here’s a photo of our 60s pop idol in action at the Enoggera Memorial Hall in lieu of a photo on the boat! Lol

One of DH’s former bosses sent along some photos of when the cast of the Rocky Horror Show came into their office 😀

Now who is DH looking at...not being sure of the copyright of the photo, I’ve done a bit of cropping and masking...

So who was behind that voting screen? 

Why Frankenfurter of course! 

DH didnt look the slightest bit fazed by having Frankenfurter sitting down behind a voting screen. 

Psst! It’s really Marcus Graham 😍.

So there you have it; a selection from DH’s Memories Box. It was certainly a very special gift indeed💕

From 3 very special young women.


It all got very rushed at the end to get it all finished so we are all ignoring spelling and punctuation mistakes aren’t we? 😉😜