Gold-colour Curtains

"My earliest memory is sitting on the floor of the second bedroom in my house when I was two years old and looking up at the bed in which my mother was lying. I ate some of her grapes. She was terminally ill. I still remember the swirling brown and white texture of the carpet, and the gold-colour curtains, and the smell and the stillness..."

Source
BBC Radio 4 Memory Experience http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/memory/