Back in England I come across certain items at the family home or things I see in the neighbourhood where I grew up which bring back a flood of memories. But sometimes I realise that my memory is hazy about everything before 2006, which is when I joined Facebook (then restricted to university email addresses) and started taking digital photos more seriously. There are so many chapters of my life before then, so many good friends…but because it wasn’t captured digitally or shared on social networks it feels like it was almost a different life or was back in the mists of time. Moving to Congo at the end of 2006 marks such a severe break in my life that I feel I need to fight again to reconnect former parts of my life with the present.