Saturday 25th June

[irwcustom]

Bacon sarnies followed by Chicken noodles because I got extra hungry.


What was your earliest childhood memory?

Mine was playing in a large pot of wallpaper paste which apparently I got everywhere - tipped it over my head:eek: and then used the large paper cutting scissors to cut my sisters hair in the same 10 minutes or so! I don't think I have any memories prior to that ..I was about 3 then.

[johnreardon]

Duplicate, but who cares

Couple of croissants and a cup of tea.

I'm sure that I remember the bad weather we had in 1948, however, I couldn't possibly, I was hardly two.

Most vivid memory is on a trolley, being pushed down to the operating theatre in St Woolos Hospital, Newport. I was about to have my tonsils out. Think I was about 4. Remember going through the doors and next thing it was a few hours later, me lying in bed. These days, they don't tend to take many tonsils out and even if they do, you don't seem to have a general, like I did.

[Sherpa]

Vichyssoise and marinated salmon salad (leftover from dinner yesterday with some friends)

My earliest recollection was a 3-year old, and I'm still not sure whether it was imagined or not, as my Mother showed me a photograph of the event. I was running through a field near Mere with my Mom chasing me and my Dad fiddling with his black Porsche 356A.

I wish he hadn't sold it. If my memory is more an extrapolation from the photograph than a real memory, the next one would be of having been left behind at a petrol station outside of Zadar, Yugoslavia (at the time). It took my family over 20 minutes to realise I wasn't in the car with them, so that would have been my first hour of quality time with people I didn't know and who spoke neither English nor French. That put me off from becoming a career diplomat, I suppose, along with my lack of tact;)

[Donk70]

Ham sandwich and water

I would say that my earliest were my swimming lessons when I was 3 or 4 years old. I remember being instructed to "swim to mommy", but mommy would back away from me (no, it's not child cruelty. The parents were instructed to do this).

[bleujazz3]

Roast Beef, roasted peppers, bib lettuce, gorganzola cheese on ciabatta bread (Good Panini!); iced coffee.

Walking into our new house at the age of 4. There was a small wicker basket in the corner near the fireplace that held an assembled rubber band wind-up balsa airplane in it, a gift from the departing family to me. I'll always remember that...:)

[jas]

I didn't really have lunch today. I was at the Philly Guitar show and I'd sooner eat a '61 Martin OOO-18 than anything they were presenting as "edible".

I broke my leg sledding when I was 4 and I remember that vividly including the actual tumble, trying to walk up the sledding hill, getting the cast put on, the itching underneath the cast, being carried up the steps to school, Valentine's day in class when I couldn't stand so my Valentines were delivered to me.

But I no longer remember which leg it was.

-John

[pembell]

Ham tomato and basil wrap, with a sprinkling of pot noodle(spicy curry).

I have a dim and distant memory of not being able to push a trolley my dad made for me that held a load of wooden bricks (he also made). It was designed(sic) so that when I leaned on it, it scooted out from under my grasp. I would then be face down on the floor.
Distressing thing is, the only photos we have of me pushing the trolley was when I was 1 year old! So either I remember it so soon in my (still) young life because it was so traumatic, or because I was Napoleon in my former life and was shocked to find myself pushing a trolley full of wooden bricks.

[jas]

That's what you deserve for the **** up at Waterloo.

-John

[Garrett]

peanut butter and crackers

First thing I can remember is getting my first radio at age 3. Still have it in a storage closet at my parent's. Changed my life forever.