From Peter Paterson
My autobiographical memories fit the general pattern described in your feature (6 October, p 36): I have few before the age of 5 or 6. But my wife has many memories before 5 and even one before 1. In 1980 she recounted for the first time a memory of being held in her mother’s arms and seeing a silver horse in the moonlight at the side of their house.
Her 81-year-old mother remembered the 1934 event – a horseman repaying a loan which had saved his house in the Depression – and was shocked, declaring: “You were only 10 months old.”
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
