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Early memories
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Standing in the check out queue today I passed the time playing peep po with the toddler in the seat of the trolley in front of me, after a while I got to thinking how strange we have no memories of our earliest days. I spent the journey home trying to think of my earliest memory, I have to confess they all got a little muddled with a mixture of what I actually remembered and what my parents had told me of my early years, I finally decided, it was been taken to hospital to and having my tonsils out, I remember it well because my parents LEFT ME THERE OVER NIGHT!!!!!. Sad but true, no mamby pamby treatment in those days, just an evil matron to look after me in my hours of need. According to my mom I was 2 years 3 months old, does any one have similar memories of their childhood?.
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MY earliest clear memory is of hospital but it was going to visit my mum when my brother was born. I remember the plants in the hall, I remember my telling my dad off for not brushing my hair properly, I remember the lady in the bed next to her but I cannot remember my brother. Apparently this is probably because I refused to even look at him. The next thing I remember is stapling myself to a card.
Like you I have very early "memories" but I think most were things told to me by my parents. My earliest clear memory is of being told not to touch a hot iron, which of course I did, burning myself and hiding from my mum! I was evidently under 2 years at the time my mum tells me. It's strange but most people's earliest memories seem to be of something painful! Having said that I can clearly remember my grandfather who I was very close to and he died before I was 3.
Mine are like yours johnnyedge, I had an operation on my ear when I was about 3 years old and I remember a woman coming and putting a ribbon in my hair whilst I was stood in a cot, and also a woman giving me a ginger biscuit, when I came home from hospital I remember my dad had bought me a puppet of muffin the mule. (God I have just shown my age)
My earliest memory is from when I was a small baby - I can remember lying in my pram in the rain with the hood up and a cat mesh thing on it - I can remember the sound and smell of the rain - every time I smell summer rain - I think of that. According to my mum, she got rid of the pram when I was about 9 months old as a neighbour had justt had a baby and they did a swap for a push chair and the hood was broken, so I must have been less than 9 months - I can also remember quite clearly sitting on the kerb at the top of concrete steps leading to the flat we lived in until I was about 13 monthsold - I was watching my Mum put washing on the line in the drying green. I can actually remember thinking that she was taking a long time and that the sheets were making funny patterns in the wind. I have loads of memories of quite banal things i.e. not special events that I would have been told about and not things that I have seen photographs of.
I can remember every detail of the classroom of my second year at primary school. The globes of Miss L as she leaned forward over the desk, the swish and thwack of the cane as the brutal headmaster caned the unfortunate JM in his study adjacent, the boils on that unfortunate boy's poor arms which he used to pick at with a pen knib, the games of flicksy with cigarette cards against the wall, the church on the hill, the delightful walk home through the fields to Mum. I'd go back if I could.
I remember my sister being born... I remember being in the hospital.. Looking at a little baby.. and thats all I remember! I don't really have any memories of being on my own without her so I am guessing it's my earliest one! I was about 2yrs and 9months old! I think mine are all muddled as well though.
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