Preezy's
Console Journey thread made me nostalgic and I started thinking about what my earliest memories were.
It’s hard to know what memories came first, but I think my earliest memory was of a flood in our kitchen. The washing machine pipe had burst overnight and downstairs was covered in water. In my mind the water was pretty deep (thinking about it now, it can’t have been all that deep!!) and I can remember splashing around in it thinking it was the best thing ever. It was like a paddling pool but inside the house!! It must have been awful for my parents, but was amazing for a kid.
I can also remember that we had a dog when I was little and that the dog vanished one day. I have no memory of the dog being taking away, just a memory of it being there and me asking my mum where it went and she said it was a boisterous and rather crazy dog and so they took it to a farm. That sounds like the usual parenting bollocks, but I found out years later that it was true, my grandad had been given the dog by a friend of his who was a farmer and decided to give it to us, the dog was not really much of a family pet and so my dad took it back to the farm and told my grandad to ask us first next time and not just hand over a dog.
I also have a memory of standing in our back garden looking over at the woods that were nearby and asking my mum if I could play there. No idea how old I was then or if it was before/after the memories above, but I clearly remember getting really upset that wasn’t allowed to leave the garden at all. We moved to that house when I was just over 2 so I think it must be a pretty early one or else I would have been used to the woods being there!