I wonder what it says that there are those of us whose more immediate retention of childhood memories are the good ones, the happy ones, maybe even the slightly apocryphal ones? As you say, if I really think on it, there are some dreadful memories, but they aren't the ones that are with me every single day...

I don't know, but it's an interesting thought, isn't it? I have several "bad" memories, but when I think of my childhood, it takes an effort to call them to mind, whereas the glowing, sunny ones are always lurking in the back of my head.

My memories of childhood are very sparse, before I hit double digits, anyway, but fairly well mixed in tone.

Not sure what that means, of course.