My Earliest Memories
My earliest memory doesn't stretch very far back. I know all the
details of my birth and the hospital I was born in (Neath General),
but of course not from memory! All these details have been hammered in
by my parents. Now then lets see if I can rummage into the deepest
corners of my memory and retrieve some fragments of lost information!
The first thing that I can remember from my childhood is visiting
Margam Park with my father. I must have been around the ages of two or
three, as my younger brother was not yet born. I can remember the day
quite clearly, as we often took this exciting day out, as it seemed to
me! I remember my father telling me to wave my mother goodbye as she
made her daily visit to a thing she called 'work'. I remember toddling
through fairytale land and marvelling at all the fairytale creatures
and their homes. I can also remember feeding the ducks in the lake. I
can recall being quite scared as they all came crowding around me,
hungry for a tasty morsel to eat!
Not long a...