Do you remember odd details from long ago?

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.

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 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.

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

Listen with Mother by Daphne Oxenford - Happy Memories.

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…

NanKate

Listen with Mother by Daphne Oxenford - Happy Memories.

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

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

To get you stretched and ready for more movement?

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