I remember, back in the day, when booze was cheap and I was a teen, and could not afford to get boozed up, we would head of down to the Sands Hotel, go into the nearest shebeen (cuca shop) and buy a 2lt coke bottle of Tombo..... traditional Ovambo plonk...... sure you got pissed, bit you always wondered what was in the stuff...... ill-3d
Mike, think you enjoyed my version of "tombo" on saturday night...........
Watermelon jellies, Gin and tonic jellies and prickly pear jellies. I-T-O
Will try and post the pictures of you kissing all the boys if i can work out how to do this this...
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Ooh Skinny, please give us your recipies pls
Geez - just don't tell me he was skinnydipping again!
Thanks again for a great afternoon Kaye - just a pity I had to go home with a sick child.
Oh dear do we have a new nursery rhyme ?? .. Mikey Pikey puddng and pie kissed all the boys and made them cry ... hey no prob our Mike is a red blooded man with no issues and not afraid to give big bear hugs and yes after maybe one or two 'jellies " well you know ... thats what makes him a special and yes deep down sensitive and empathetic persona .. martini ... no more jellies however ,, they rui the next day ... thanks gott I was not there ... would have to book me in for detox ...
Jellies great stuff...Bev Quintons favourite party trick...the best Malibu or Coco Mo Jellies. woo_hoo
Jellies .. devils piss I say .. wrecks you and gives a bad day afterwards ,,, I'm slowly getting wiser .. avoid shooters etc , but then still have a weakness for port in the early mellow hours of the morning with the diehards ,, same consequence .. but yes I try to keep the port under lock and key ...
On the subject of Tombo being a cheap booze .. i just ahd a memory callback .. my Mom talking about her wild reckless days as a young girl.. they would buy scrumpty .. a really cheap bottom of the barrel dregs cider ... it kicked like a mule ... Mike ask your Dad if he has any memory of scrumpty ?? but then Mom would have been about 85 now ... so yes quite a few years diffs ...
you can still buy scrumpy here in england it is calles scrumpy jacks...a cider
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Your way of detox - Michele's nightmare: a dip in the pool ! Zu liebe - that stuff make you hear voices calling you to a plunk in a pool, Sandy, and heaven knows how you bloody managed to lure the innocent and sober with..... !
My father in law is always on about Scrumpy's...... but back in England..... I guess a Cider kinda Tassies.....
ha ha me lure the innocent and sober people into a pool in the early hours ?? I merely got them over the fear of the jagged stuff on the wall .. Voila !! boeties in die kwaad !!
jA oK Dalene .. I admit I am a bit delinquent when drunk ... takes me back to 88 when we were on a conference at Gordons Bay . the old Van riebeck hotel .. early hours of morning I did the same ... lured a crowd of us down to the beach for skinny dipping .. it was fun .. later on we all sitting on the beach chatting and drinking .. I go back in .. swim a bit come running out of the water at about knee depth I suddenly feel this sharp pain in my left calf , think its a cramp, but when i lift my leg up all i see is a hole in my leg with blood gushing out of it .. It was a scene to see ... heres me hopping on one leg toward this crowd on the beach .. screaming ,, jewels a bouncing around .. everybody suddenly in shock ... my tracksuit pants hoisted onto me and me carried back to the hotel .. somebody holding the hole closed ... we could not work out what happened but here was this hole the size of a pinkie finger and about 1 1/2 inches deep in my leg ... first aid .. pour scotch into it ... bind it with towels .. and then the cowards left me to suffer .. i woke up the next morning with a hangover form hell a blooded towell strapped around my leg .. I hobbled around showered .. got dressed and got to breakfast .. ate something and was told by boss to get to a doctor ... the hotel drove me to Doc .. he too was puzzled and sort of did not believe my story .. so he just cleaned out the hole and stitched it closed ... Bad mistake .... my prize for my night of recklessness was that it was actually a stingray that zapped me ... anyhow I survived the conference ..even did my presentation flawlessly .. partied a bit more then got a colleague to drive me back in my car ... my reception at home was a bit frosty due to the skinnydip story .. anyhow the leg now started to swell the following day .. here was i with these stitches pulling tight .. Eina !! .. How we discovered it was a stingray ? ... My neighbour Norman .. showed me from a book of sea life .. Stingrays ... normally come in at night and burrow in in the shallows at night .. areas .. Gordons bay among them .. it said beware the unwary bather that steps on one in the shallows in the early hours of morning ... well i was one of those unwary bathers .. the swelling ?/ from the toxin in the sting ,, just as well the barb did not break off cos then i would have had double distress .. the remedy for the toxin if we had known at the time was to wrap the area in hot towels , continually changing them the heat helps break down the toxin ... I endured this really swollen calf for a month .. slowly coming down . no damage long term except for the small dent in the leg and the criss cross of the stitches .. we named it the night of the ragged tooth guppy ...
So Mike .. next time you in Gordons bay .. NO Skinny Dipping in the early hours of the morning .. ... understood ? image201
I seem to remember my sister told me she also stepped on a stingray in Gordon's bay/Strand when she was a student/scholar at Stellenbosch in the 70's. (Will have to confirm this, maybe it was somebody with her). Well she didn't mention that she was skinny-dipping. Otherwise we would know that stingrays only stung naked bathers a la Sandy!