What's your earliest memory?

I don't remember my sister being born when I was 16 months old, but do remember sitting on my great-grandfather's knee in my grandparents' house, where we lived at the time, and moved just 3 months after my sister's birth, so that puts me at almost 2 years old at most.

I also remember the trees passing above me when I was in my pram, on a regular walk my mother would take me on before my sister was born - I never went in the pram after that. I would have been about 15 months old according to my mother, the last time I was wheeled out on that walk.

I thought children could only really remember certain things from about 2 years old, but these are vivid memories that I have recounted over the years.

I swear I remember very clearly Mum sitting in bed after a home birth with my baby brother at her breast and feeling quiet distresssed about it ,then the nurse or midwife pushing me out of the door briskly and saying "Go and play in the garden" . We lived in a ground floor flat.
Mum says that my brother was born In December when there was thick snow on the ground so this is unlikely to be true but I remeMber it. I would have been only just 3.

Going to kindergarten at 2 1/2 on the back of my uncle's motorbike!

I can remember being spoon fed by my Mum, and the feeling of frustration because she didn't push the spoon in far enough and each time I had to lean forward in my high chair!! I guess I was about two years old. I can also remember my Dad holding me, with my arm around his shoulders, I can still remember the feeling of the rough fabric of his jacket, and his familiar smell, of brylcream I think!

I can remember being bundled into the puschair and my Mum running at breakneck speed up the hill. I bounced all over place! Seems she had been told my brother was playing on the railway line and she was off to catch him. He got a good hiding for that, and the man who stopped his car to tell her she mustn't smack him was told that he should mind his own business or he'd get a hiding too!

Not sure which was first, but I remember my mother taking me shopping in a pushchair, leaving me outside Wright`s chemist at Elsecar, and then telling me off for climbibg out of the pushchair. Then I remember being a bridesmaid when my mother married again when I was just turned 3, and I remember playing with another bridesmaid, Elaine Booth, at the reception. Thinking about it, the pushchair episode was probably the earliest.

I can clearly remember being in a pram and my mother telling me we were going to timbukto! It was always a huge disappointment because it timbukto was the shade of a tree. But I can still remember being in the pram and being so bored and blowing bubbles of spit that burst on the side of the pram! I still haven't got to timbukto!!

I have a hazy memory of standing in the bedroom where my new baby brothers cot was and trying to take a peek at him. Apparently, I had refused to speak to my mother after she went into hospital to have my brother - and would not go near her or the baby when she brought him home.
My mother must have come into the room quietly and she said 'Well, do you like your babybrother then ?' I remember feeling annoyed at being caught out. I was only 18 mths old at the time and my mother was shocked when I recalled it many years later.

The next memory is of myself aged 3 & my brother playing in the hallway with the front door open and a babygate across the door opening. The hall was long and dark but the sunlight was shining in.

I have several memories of being very young but exactly how I old I could not say....approximately three I think. One is of using a hair grip to scratch the polished wooden arm of an easy chair!!! could not forget that one and the evidence was there for all to see!!!! and the other is of standing in my cot very distressed and sick when, my mother told me, I had chickenpox and measles at the same time........it started by me vomiting whilst standing in a tutu in the wings of a stage waiting to perform!!!

That is a really early one. It is easy to locate them in time when you have moved house isn't it. There is already a long and lovely thread on this topic somewhere around, that has gone quiet in last week.