Do you remember odd details from long ago?

Maremia, probably, it was a nice change from the class room anyway

To get you stretched and ready for more movement?

My husband and I were talking about music and movement at junior school
I can still hear her voice telling us to find a space and sit down quickly, then make ourselves tiny, then as tall as a tree. I don’t know what the point of it was, it wasn’t very energetic

NanKate

Listen with Mother by Daphne Oxenford - Happy Memories.

"Are you sitting comfortably?
Then I'll begin."

Esmay

Primrose - I often dream vividly about a best friend who died aged eleven from a severe asthma attack .
It was so tragic and my first experience of death .
I also remember her hand knitted cardigans but more particularly a white dress that she often wore . She was so pale and thin and her hair was straight and blond .
In my dreams she says I've been all the time with you .

That’s so sad but also touchingly beautiful…

Listen with Mother by Daphne Oxenford - Happy Memories.

Yes I do, it's strange how random thoughts from long ago re-surface.

I clearly remember listening to a programme for children called, I think, ‘Listen with Mother’. I would have been somewhere between 2 and 4 years old, so 1953 to 55. My dad was in what was then known as the Admiralty and had transferred from Portsmouth dockyard to the drawing offices in Bath. Our first home there was in a rather crummy ground floor flat at 1 Brock Street, right next to the magnificent Royal Crescent. Not that I appreciated that at the time, though I do remember days in the park just opposite.

Primrose - I often dream vividly about a best friend who died aged eleven from a severe asthma attack .
It was so tragic and my first experience of death .
I also remember her hand knitted cardigans but more particularly a white dress that she often wore . She was so pale and thin and her hair was straight and blond .
In my dreams she says I've been all the time with you .

I had a vivid dream last night about my oldest friend who died last year.

I have been thinking about her all day and remembering so much about our long friendship which went back to when we started primary school together. I can still remember her hand knitted cardigan and the way her hands used to tremble slightly if she had to speak out in the class.

For me this morning it was the name of the housekeeper in Downton Abbey, for no apparent reason 😂.

Mrs Patmore? No. Mrs Carson? No, she didn't take his name upstairs. It plagued me until I woke up and forgot about it, at which point it popped into my head unbidden. Mrs Hughes.

I have memories of playing with my food as a child.
If we had sausage and mashed potatoes with gravy
I loved to make river banks with the mash and then divert the gravy to make rivers.
The sausages were shaped into buildings.
I didn't do it in front of my mother!

I remember being at mass on a Sunday and making patterns with my finger on my mother’s green suede coat.

I think I was about 2/3.

Ever since I was young (I'm 51) and I remember it so clearly of being in a car with another child who wore callipers, are they? on both legs. I can see the journey, the road layout (no longer as it's been redeveloped about 30+ years ago) and I don't know who she is. I told mum about it at the time, she said it never happened, but I remember it!

Yet a loved dog, even now I struggle to remember her and it upsets me when I can't recall her. I had her 1996 - 2008, I can see all the others before, even the first one who came around 1979 I remember her being in mums bedroom in a box when she was a pup, I remember her having her own pups, so it's not as if I can't remember the earlier ones. I can remember where I was born, we left there when I was 3, these are proper memories, they aren't off photos, but I struggle to remember Tet, and like I said, it upsets me.

Other than that, if someone wants to know something they usually ask me, they say I remember everything. My dad snapped at my sister the other week as he accused her of lying, because she couldn't remember something that he said happened 20 years ago.

Apparently she snapped back and told him she's not me!

I never knew about that, Liaise, interesting!
So you were born in a castle 👸

My second DC was born in Alexandra Maternity Home. It was lovely but they used to lock the doors at night because they'd get drunks walking through the park and trying to get in. I remember one banging on the door late at night 😲

Thoughts on babies born in Plymouth my mother was a navy wife and due to give birth to me in1943 but because of problems with bombing she was sent over the Tamar to Pentillie Castle in Cornwall. One of the wings was being used as a maternity hospital. She said she stayed for 3 weeks because there was no one at home. It was said to be haunted and the night nurse was frightened. My mother had to go around with her. I believe that castle wing was eventually demolished.

I remember running all the way home after a dinner lady slammed a door hard and I couldn't get back into the little canteen!
I was only five & walked half a mile back to my Mum's. She eventually found me in the garden crying.
Lots of cuddles ensued. Luckily I had a nice Mummy.💞

my aunt and uncle used to visit us in there car in 1940s it was FMD 76.

Allsorts To avoid confusion when reacting to a previous quote and to avoid seeming to write a non-sequitur.

I recall my first bank account number when I opened an account with the Royal Bank of Scotland at the age of 17.

I cannot remember my present mobile number!

Crossstitchfan

Back in the 60s, if you shopped at the Co-op you got Co-op dividend and were issued with a reference number. Mine was 11628! Still remember it after all this time!

38627 here. So often repeated and never to be forgotten! I also remember the slosh of the pink paraffin as the 'paraffin man' poured it out of his big vat into a large tin jug that my mother was holding. I can also recall the smell of it as it sloshed in.

I can remember the registration of DH's first car bought in 1965 it was TGR 220.
Mother's coop dividend number too 16089, I used to buy ingredients for cookery class there as it was next door to my school.

Because just clicking on "Quote" is so quick.

Why do some posters keep enclosing other peoples lengthy posts to make a point.. It is ridiculous, we have read them unless really lengthy posts, life is too short.,

My Mum's co op number. When I was about 5 we lived out in the country and the co op van came up the hill once a week. I remember having a three penny piece and bought some fruit gums and proudly quoted her co op number!