Andrew and myself where chatting in our tea room, I asked him, I wander if the children today still play Marbles, Spinning tops and Yoyo's during school break. I remember wall outside the art class, between the Old Auditorium and cricket field there where slight indentations in the tar-mac used to make it tough trying to through those marbles.
Tricks the children used to do with there Spinning tops and Yoyo's.
Great memories! Yes that piece of tar-mac you're talking about was the main marble field for us, especially the long-distance ones. Cant remember what we called it - maybe you can remind me? When you had two marbles next to each other up for grabs, the guy throwing to hit them had to stand two steps away, three for three, four for four, etc. You called out something like... "...Two-man-shy..." or something to that effect. You remember?
Hi Bertie, spot on man. If it was 2 marbles it was called a 2 man shy. We used to go for the big ones like 15 man shy etc. Come home with a pocket full of marbles or Bust LOL.
Thanx Pepe, so the memory's not too bad after all... I remember with the bigger ones, like the 15-man-shy, you would line them up in a long row, with only the last two marbles placed next to each other. What were the translucent marbles called? They had double value.?
Hi Bertie,
Things must have changed a bit since I played, we used to make pyramids of the larger numbers (from 10 up) and called the translucent marbles "Beauties"
I remember rushing home with all the marbles I had won and filling my large Ricoffy container with them. You would then count how many arlies, goonies, etc you had (not too sure about the different names anymore). Thos marble collections were worth a fortune for us. We also did the skipping stuff during breaks.
But what about 'silkworm season'? One person would bring silkworms in and by the time the school bell went, half the school had it's own silkworm and was rushing through town to find 'mulberry leaves'.
@ Ricky, I remember pyramids as well, but cant remember the rules about them. I might be mistaken, but I think we called the more "solid" (opaque) whitish ones with stripes like marble (the rock), "beauties". Long time ago, hey...
@ Patricia - Yes, remember the silkworms as well. I always had boxes full. Fortunately we had a mulberry tree - if I think about it, I could have sold the leaves...
The skipping - yes, also a phase every year or so, and then what about those rubber bands? Mostly girls' pastime - two girls used to hold the rubber band around their ankles, and a third would do funny jumps and maneuvers over/in it. The band was moved higher after each "routine"... What did you call that? I remember my sister did that too, so maybe Diana knows more about this since they are about the same age.
What was the name of those wooden gates with numbers above that we made for rolling our arlies into.....?
Oh yes, I remember those, Mike. Maybe somebody will remember what it was called...
and now I've got that gray matter working!
the wooden boards would have little door ways smaller to bigger getting more marbles for the smaller doors
Alfie, I thought you were expelled from OPS before you even started there............... image201
Birdie
I remember when the girls silkworms changed into moths!!! fantasy-18
Bertie...it was called french skipping, we used to play it at home aswell but because there was only two of us we used to put one end on a chair...mad..but we enjoyed it.
No Mike it was in my final year at OPS that I had the issues with my Maths teacher
The mid 80's generation would remember the game skalulu I think it was called. A cross between Running Red rover and stingers. Must have been a local (Omund) game with a variety of rules. It was played on the grass area between the new classes and the street that runs from the old soccer field up to the town pool. That area is now a parking area.
OOOps sorry Alf, I must have misunderstood you all these years................ image21
We made those wooden gate things in woodwork class .... I f i remember we just called them marble shies as in coconut shies ) I recall by some stroke of luck ( and choosing an uneven patch of tarmac to pitch ones stand ) being quite a marble tycoon .. had a huge bag of them , kind of like vulgar conspicious display of wealth (like Malema's 250 000 Breitling watch ) we would swagger around with our spoils from the unfortunate marble gamblers ... but then like all things gained by not entirely honest means of stacking the odds ,,, the wheel turned and I became a marble pauper ... anyhow it was fun
Quote from: Mike Voden on May 31, 2010, 07:13:38 PM
OOOps sorry Alf, I must have misunderstood you all these years................ image21
Mike u where on the right track I never new u to be misunderstood ?
hahahaha lol
"Eyedrops" had to stand straight up and drop the marble from eyelevel to hit one on the ground. Bertie I remember the elastic game but not what it was called we also made the band from old stockings.
Oh yes and stingers with a wet tennis ball
Totally forgot about "eyedrops"! Yes we did that as well!
Thanx Barbara - French skipping, Diana! I remember the chair playing with when there was a player short, my sister also used to do that...
French skipping...yes thats it. If you had no friends you befriended the dining room chairs. sorriso2
Quote from: Alfred Boehme on May 31, 2010, 06:47:28 PM
No Mike it was in my final year at OPS that I had the issues with my Maths teacher
Who was your Maths teacher Alf?
Was it Dickey?
That's it Ricky, the pyramid shys were the amount of paces for the shy eg. 15 man shy was 15 paces etc.
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on June 02, 2010, 08:46:58 AM
Quote from: Alfred Boehme on May 31, 2010, 06:47:28 PM
No Mike it was in my final year at OPS that I had the issues with my Maths teacher
Who was your Maths teacher Alf?
Was it Dickey?
No it wasn't Dickey, but I don't thinks it's necessary to mention names lots of water has passed under the bridge since then.
thnx
I can remember we also played a lot of "Kennetjie".
Used wooden goodies those days and often ended up getting a note home to inform your parents you (they) owe the school money for a new window. Luckily those years the classrooms had those tiny window panes.
When my kids were in primary school Kennetjie became "known" again, but made out of plastic.
Now that's a game I haven't heard mentioned in who knows how many years. That was a fave in Kuruman in the 70's...
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bok bok staan styf hoeveel fingers op jou lyf? back breaker!
french criceket
What about tops? You had to wrap the string around it and spin it. Not always on the ground but also on desks. And yoyos ...
Yes I was going to get to tops we used to remove the metal tip, put a sharpened nail in it's place and try to split the other children spinning there wooden tops we also used to paint them twirly colour's when you spin them what a effect it would have
woo_hoo
We had a game I remember when we were kids not as sophisticated as the games you played there in O/M. This game played at night time was with a tin can (yes they were invented then) one person was the seeker all the rest placed a stick on the tin can, the seeker then counted to 100 (that's if they could count) the others went and hid. The seeker then searched, and when someone was found would remove a stick from the can until all the sticks were removed. Now if you were not detected and were near enough you could run out and kick the can releasing all those that had been already caught and the seeker had to start again.... This I remember was a great game...............but not to the adults that lived in the immediate vicinity. image14............ image04