How is your memory? Lately Gaga has convinced herself that she is losing hers – though losing her mind is probably more accurate, given her current obsessions with all things beady.

According to Norman Wisdom as you get older, three things happen:

The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two…

Everyone has had one of those blood-stopping moments when some fundamental thing floats back into consciousness and you slap your hand over your mouth in horror at your own forgetfulness but to English playwright and actor John Osborne having a poor memory was not altogether a bad thing…

El que tiene mala memoria se ahorra muchos remordiniento