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Your Very First Memory?

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DTCwordfan | 18:35 Mon 17th Nov 2014 | ChatterBank
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Building on Tilly's great thread last night, http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1379783.html

what was your very first memory and what age were you?

My first one was in Scotland, staying in a hotel near Loch Katrine, playing 'hopscotch' on the tartan carpet in reception - it seemed massive. Also, on that trip, I can remember going on the wee steamer that went up the Loch from the Trossachs Pier. I was just over 3 and a half, my eldest sister being one and a bit.

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Dad took me out in the car. He went into the bank, and gave me a couple of coppers to spend in the sweet shop next door. When he came out of the bank, he jumped in the car, and went home without me. He'd forgotten he'd taken me in the first place. I think I was four.
18:50 Mon 17th Nov 2014
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well, it is what defence lawyers trade off when it comes to grilling in court, even if the case is slam-dunk. There we do spin the circumstances of what we have witnessed and try to reach conclusions. It's not lying per se......

However, not sure if it really applies to these 'core' memories and early experiences - for me, like learning to read 'Dick and Dora' on the steps of the school house when I was 4, a very clear memory indeed.
My first memories are from RAF Changi in Singapore, I was between 2 and 4 but don't remember which order they came in.
My first memory is of me singing Clive Dunn's Grandad to my Grandad at a Boxing Day Party in my aunts house. I had just turned 3 or 4.
I remember sitting in my highchair I must have been about 10 months - a year old being fed porridge by my dad and it was raining outside.
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that's young, QoM.....
Lying in a carry cot in my grandmother's middle room, on top of her dining table. Younger than I can now work out. Everyone being quiet.
Wow. Best answer. Thanks DTC. He only left me for about twenty minutes, but he still jokes???? now, he wishes it had been twenty years.
This was my daily 4x4 to school in Singapore

http://tinyurl.com/p5va7tf


Hey prudie, what school? I was in the Sacred Heart convent in Bukit Timah Rd. Convent flattened now for the metro.
DTC, hopscotch in Scotland is called peevers. I loved to play it as a child. I think if I tried it now and stood on one leg, I'd keel over.
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that is correct, jan - lots of time spent on the tartan then? Double entendre in that one, I guess....
running round the legs of the dinner table.. about 2 I think

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