Earliest Memories

[quidoftullamore]

It's always interesting to hear what people's earliest memories are...

Mine isn't that interesting and I'm not really sure how old I was when it happened, but it has a kind of hazy, real quality to it, which makes me think it is my earliest memory.

I'm on a beach with my dad and older sister, catching tadpoles that were swimming in shallow water. I remember being enraptured by the tadpoles - I had never seen any before - and how slimy and slippery they felt in my hands, as well as the fact that they had both legs and a tail.

[LiraelG]

In my earliest memory, I am between 2 and 4... I am sitting on the floor of my mum's room playing with stripy pipecleaners. All of the pipecleaners are mainly white, but have thin blue, brown or green stripes curling around them. My parents are sitting in the bed and talking.

I also FEEL I remember the time I had beans and mash at nursery...and got a little too excited about it.

[kiki1982]

I still remember that my grandmother was making sand cakes for me (lovely woman she was) and me bashing them flat with my favourite spade. That must have been the very first or second time I went to the sea side with my grand parents and that was when I was about one or two. I've still got the spade (mall red square one; I had a paler triangular one, but I didn't like that one) and the sand cake forms somewhere. They must have been my very first ones that I got for my very first trip to the Belgian sea side and they're still my favourite. There's never anything like the first thing you ever had. I've got a thing with firsts...

I remember getting a pastel silvery pink shiny ball with silver stars on it from my godmother in Italy. That was when I was three. And it's still there somewhere. It felt so big then. :lol:
I remember falling out of the bed in the hotel and on the train journey.

If I start thinking about them, I remember quite a lot of things, but maybe they might be imagination, because the more you believe you should remember something, the more you do, even if it's not true.

[free]

I remember when I was a baby. I know it because the things I remember are about the flat where my family lived since I was born and left it when I was one year old. I remember how the flat looked. When I described it, sometimes ago, my mother agreed with my description of it.

[Sancho]

My second birthday. All I remember is sitting around the table with my sister and my dad, and my mom brought out the cake she made for me. The cake looked like turtle because my mom figured I liked turtles. It had a cake-tin round body, four cupcake feet, a cupcake head, some green frosting, and a couple of candles stuck into it. I don't remember anything leading up to the party or anything afterwards, or what the cake tasted like. I just remember sitting there looking at that cake. I probably filled this in later, but I seem to remember that my mom was proud of the cake.

I still like cake.

[Dreamwoven]

I still have one or two memories of the second world war. The one I remember clearest is coming out of a London underground station in the dark and seeing searchlights pointing up into the sky. I also remember looking out of a window at home soon are the end of the war and seeing a dirigible balloon anchored to the ground at Wimbledon Common and watching parachutists jumping out of the basket, parachutes opening.

[Scheherazade]

I still like cake.Turtle cakes?

My earliest memory is getting stung by a bee... I was about a year old, I think. Everyone in the family says that I was too young to remember that but I have very vivid snapshots and emotions etched into my memory of the incident.

[Snowqueen]

Turtle cake sounds great, Sancho!

One of my earliest memories is eating grains and other stuff that my uncle kept for his birds. I was almost 2 and I confess I really liked the taste. :smilewinkgrin:

[Dreamwoven]

My mother used to make a birthday cake for me as a young child, like a steam engine or car. It was basically sponge, cut out into shapes, round like wheels, and then covered in icing sugar, with colouring added like painted on the wheel rims, the chimney to bring out the funnel. There was still rationing then, so it was quite a treat.