Well-known faces share their earliest memories ... from as young as two
LeesaLeesa Harker, creator of Maggie Muff and the author of bestselling books including Fifty Shades of Red, White and Blue and Maggie’s g Feg Run, recalls her earliest memory being asking her mother to take t her little sister back. She says:
Ir e member me and my granny on our sofa, l ooking out the window of the house.
I was just two. We were waiting for my mum coming home from hospital with my new baby sister and it was snowing outside.
The car came driving up and parked outside the house and i n came my mum with my sister. And I said, ‘I don’t want it. Take it back.’
My mum t hen coaxed me to help her give my sister a bath — the old ‘get the child involved’ tactic — and it worked. I was then delighted with my new human toy.
I also remember shortly after, being stung by a bee.
I was maybe three years old. I had been on a tricycle when it happened and had run to my mum.
The next part of the memory is me lying on the sofa in our house with a cool flannel on my head and Sudocream on my arm — where the sting was — and I could hear my mum on the phone in the hallway to my dad telling him I had been stung.
And I remember thinking — this is serious because she’s telling dad to come home... so I might die.
But actually, it was just his daily phone call to her.
The drama queen in me started at an early age!”