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joannapiano Thu 08-Oct-26 14:12:12

I remember sitting in a wooden high chair scraping at the dirt ingrained on the tray with my fingernails.
Also my mum bathing my baby brother in a baby bath in front of the living room fire, and a mouse ran out from the cupboard and mum jumping and spilling the water everywhere.

Cossy Thu 08-Oct-26 13:19:17

I have a memory from living in Germany in a block of flats (army), I remember two things, one was there was a large sandpit and play area and a man with one one leg. Second memory, a xx big basement in same block of flats, we were banned from entering as it was full of the boiler and electrical stuff, but the door was left unlocked so us army brats trooped inside,

It would have been just before my 4th birthday, I think.

Grandma70s Thu 08-Oct-26 13:15:36

Unfamiliar things in my grandfather’s bureau - spills for lighting his pipe, and sealing wax.

JenniRen Thu 08-Oct-26 13:13:38

Another random memory was of our teacher yelling and jumping on to her chair because there was a mouse in the classroom. We mostly found it funny although some girls were terrified. I was older, about seven then.

tanith Thu 08-Oct-26 13:07:38

I also have a memory of an outside toilet at my nans. I remember one Saturday morning I must of been naughty as I had to do my sisters chore of scrubbing the stairs from our top floor flat they were wood no carpet and my sister telling mum I wasn't scrubbing but looking out the window.

JenniRen Thu 08-Oct-26 12:59:58

Yes, I remember the terrible blizzards and waiting anxiously with my brother for our mother to come home. I was very young then.
We had a canary which I remember but it had died by the time I was four.

Seeing my Grandad in his leather armchair, wearing his black waistcoat and collarless white shirt. We had to go down the garden to the lavatory at their house. Grandad died when I was five.

nanna8 Thu 08-Oct-26 12:24:17

Quite a few. I still remember getting lost in a peasouper on the way home from primary school in London. I felt frightened and had no idea that I was in someone’s garden.
I also remember going home to an empty house aged around 5 or 6,I had forgotten I was supposed to stay for a school dinner. It was quite a walk , a mile or so. I was very upset and unsettled.

Retread Thu 08-Oct-26 12:08:04

... being put to the task...

Retread Thu 08-Oct-26 12:07:49

I do. I phoned my sister yesterday to ask her whether she remembers put to the task of removing the shafts of chicken feathers with tweezers because my mother couldn't bear it if any were left in on chicken skin purchased for roasting.

She did! I must have been about 8.

Magenta8 Thu 08-Oct-26 11:26:59

I don't think I am unusual in having quite a few random memories that are quite humdrum, do not involve anything momentous but nevertheless are very vivid.

For instance; It was early January and I was waiting outside a shop with my brother, my tiny baby sister was in her large black pram. A lady came up and "What a lovely Christmas present for you both, a beautiful baby." I remember exchanging looks with my brother.

I vividly remember an indoor break at school when the weather was so bad that we were allowed to stay in. We were in the school assembly hall and we were dancing to "Please Please Me" by the Beatles. The record was on repeat and we spent most of the break dancing to it.

I am sure there is a scientific explanation for why we sometimes remember random things but other more momentous occasions are totally forgotten.