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[oothoona]

I thought my first memory was watching the dust motes move in the light filtered through orange cheesecloth curtains as my mother sang the new baby to sleep. She wore a greenish hippie skirt and was singing Mull of Kintyre and her hair was wavy... which means it was not long after Isabel's birth... pregnancy straightened my mother's usually very

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[puppydogtail]

I keep re-reading your post, and it gives me lovely nostalgic early memory shivers. I don't think I remember anything from quite so early, though. I find it very strange to think that even though he is really communicating with us now, Stuart will probably not remember anything from his life so far when he is a bit older.

A thought about moving from the cot to a real bed: we all slept in a bassinet when we were babies (Mum and Dad still have it), probably until we were 4 or 5 months old. So perhaps the other memory is the earliest after all.

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[heromyk]

...thanks for that post. Like another respondent, it got me thinking about past things. I can remember leaving for school, to walk there. So maybe 5 years old. I can remember walking out of the kitchen and down the steps. Hazy now, used to remember it better. And I can remember the same room filled with light an Mum doing something in the kitchen. I am playing with a recorder, and seem to be sitting on a table. There used to be a picture of me sitting on the floor with a recorder...I was maybe 2 years old? This was all in Darwin. And things have apparently changed a lot. That house is gone. So is the house we moved to when we came down to Canberra - it was on a large block and got duplexed. One day when I finish unpacking I might find some of my old photos. A few reminders are worth keeping. Thankyou for the opportunity/prompting to reflect