Memories

[MSTRS:Me]

Okay - so it's cold & wet = boring. Soooo - I read the old TV shows thread & got to thinking - What's the earliest thing can any of you remember? Rep points to the one who can guess my earliest memory

[Virago]

...........Rep points to the one who can guess my earliest memory

Does it have anything to do with a giant mammory? (oops sorry did you say memory?)

[jazbug5]

I can remember looking up out of my pram at an elderly neighbour googling at me with a pair of secateurs in his hand. I would have been about three months old at the time. It's actually pretty vivid.

A friend of mine reckons he can remember being born. Hmmmm.

[idb]

Okay - so it's cold & wet = boring. Soooo - I read the old TV shows thread & got to thinking - What's the earliest thing can any of you remember? Rep points to the one who can guess my earliest memory

Hmmmmm...if I really cast my mind back I can just remember the alarm going off at 6am this morning.

[idb]

A friend of mine reckons he can remember being born.

Eek!!678910

[Virago]

Hmmmmm...if I really cast my mind back I can just remember the alarm going off at 6am this morning.

Can you? I must have added that one to my store of repressed traumatic memories.

I can't remember anything before the age of 3. My third birthday I got a train set, I remember that. Dad and his best friend played with it and kept shooing me away.

[Jonty]

Okay - so it's cold & wet = boring. Soooo - I read the old TV shows thread & got to thinking - What's the earliest thing can any of you remember? Rep points to the one who can guess my earliest memory

Clue? mine was sitting on front of my old man learning how to steer a 1983ish XL185 while he pretended not to balance it. The I also remember him getting off it and putting the stand down and I managed to hit the gear lever and the bloody thing fell over. From that point on I always thought the gear lever was the "automatic bike tipper overer". Mind you, still seems to do it now - maybe I was onto something?

[MSTRS:Me]

Clue?

No clues shall be given. No correspondence shall be entered into. Judge's decision is final. Keep your memories (& guesses) coming. I have an idea this thread will prove to be long-running and highly not-boring

[zadok]

Okay - so it's cold & wet = boring. Soooo - I read the old TV shows thread & got to thinking - What's the earliest thing can any of you remember? Rep points to the one who can guess my earliest memory

If you are still thinking along the lines of T.V I reckon you were mad on 'Magic Roundabout'. am I right?

[Riff Raff]

Mine is of a recurring dream I had when I was about 3 of being a baby lying by a tree and a black bird flying overhead.

When I was 21 (and emotionally lost and confused) I went into a book shop looking for a specific book, which I didn't find, but as I was wandering around I picked up a book, paid for it, then walked out the shop. It was only then that I looked at my new purchase - a book on Celtic star signs. When I opned the page for my sign the picture was of a baby, an Elder tree and a raven flying overhead. For me that was a huge sign. The picture symbolises spiritual rebirth and was instrumental in taking me down a different path in my life.

[jazbug5]

Wow! That's pretty amazing, Riff.
*all jealous*

Speaking of spooky dreams as a kid, I had this awful recurring nightmare about hiding in a factory from a horrible man in a boiler suit; very vivid, and I had it so many times I remember it to this day, looking up at him from under a bench and seeing his face so clearly, even the stubble.

Many years later I was travelling in China and saw that face on the front page of a newspaper someone was reading- I was stunned, shivers ran up my spine... I went over and asked the person if I could take a look.

It turned out to be Fred West...

[MSTRS:Me]

It turned out to be Fred West...

Shudder.........gulp.

[Riff Raff]

It turned out to be Fred West...

Ooh freaky! I used to have recurring dreams regularly as a kid - some of them I'm still awaiting the explanation for.

Another dream I had was of being a little girl sitting on a stone step in a village on a mountain. Years later I saw a picture of Machu Pichu and recognised it from my dream. I can still see in my mind what it looked like in when all the buildings were complete and people were bustling about. One day I will travel to Peru. Was planning a trip about 8 years ago but ended up getting sick. I guess I'll get there when the time is right.

[TonyB]

I can remember looking up out of my pram at an elderly neighbour googling at me with a pair of secateurs in his hand. I would have been about three months old at the time. It's actually pretty vivid.

A friend of mine reckons he can remember being born. Hmmmm.

Faaaark! Well, I can't top that but I can remember being made to go potty infront of my extended family. I was highly indignant and they were all laughing I still carry the mental scars My mum reckons from the people that were there I would have been 2.

[Motu]

My earliest memories were when I was about 2 or 3 - my father and uncle were top dressing with trucks,my uncle drove the spreader and my father kept him loaded.I remember my father rolling the front end loader in the yard - he leapt off the rear guard as it went over in a cloud of super,the super dust stung my eyes,but Mum wasn't very comforting,she ran off screaming after Dad! I also remember we were out loading the spreaer truck at a ramp - I was in the cab by myself as Dad got my uncle positioned under the tailgate - then Dad yelled ''put the hoist up Motu!'' and I did! I felt a pretty big 3 yr old doing that....That was in Kaiwaka,and I also remember putting a coconut through the window of Jaques Store,there was a big to do about that,but the old boy was ok about it,although I reckon if I walked into that shop today and mentioned my name someone would say - ''hey,aren't you that kid who put a coconut through the front door window?''