Hi all,
My name is Ebben Kalondo and this site has brought back so many memories that I am still staggering. Good on you Michael! I want to share another piece of Oranjemund history that is well known and that was about us, the black kids. It all started in the 70's. De Beers at the time already had the foresight that Namibia would eventually become independant and a Black governement would come to power. They then did a very interesting and far-reaching experiment. They took a few migrant workers and allowed these few workers to bring their wives and children to join them in Omund. I recall that trip as it were yesterday. I think my twin sister (Ebba) and I were four or five years old, my older sister Johanna, my brother Kalondo (he was a tot) and my then baby sister, Monica was a little baby. The year was 1976 or 78.
We arrived in this huge DC9 and remember the smell of the interior and that I was violently ill during that trip.
We arrived to this dusty little town and there was like a holding area, if I can call it that for our families in the West. We were ushered into these houses which were furnished right down to the linen, crockery - everything. Remember, we were village folk it was a complete new world. I remember we used to have dinners at the old Soccer Club which was basically our Rec club. I remember the old Cinema Gym was where we held our church services and come togethers. It was a wonderfultme for the migrant workers who used to flock to our houses on weekends to have a home cooked meal and conversations about home. And I recall these uncles used to dish out money to us kids like sweets! It was fun and then we would run to the West cafe to gorge ourselves on sweets! I cannot remember much of the West 'period' becasue then we moved to third avenue. We came to town.
All the black children could not speak English but remember my pre-school days with Barbara Griffith-Richards clearly. She was the large, wonderful lady that had a hug always available and I think Lynn De Jager. We learnt to speak English and went to Sub A. The integration of the Black kids into Oranjemund was the most pecular thing because this was the time of Apartheid and here we had only one school! The kids at school were divided along language lines, meaning you were either English or Afrikaans. The black kids automatically were English. I think Mrs Coffin still taught us in Sub A - her husband was the projectionist at the local (only!) bioscope. Mrs Coffin and other British ladies taught us in Sub A and to this day, lots of people think I have studied or lived in England because of my rather posh accent! i remember Miss Carretoni who did most of the bridging classes for the black youngsters. She was a sweetheart! My Sub B teacher, Miss Head who later became Mrs Barth was my idol. She was the tall, hippy-ish lady with long hair and I thought she was the most beautiful and amazing woman ever. She had a beautiful laugh and spirit. In Sub B we went on a school tour to Cape Town. I never forget this trip. I cannot remember much but I remember how we were shielded from the obvious manifestations of Apartheid during this tour liek segregated toilets and eating in open areas. i also remember wetting my pants on the bus! I remember the lights of CT as we drove into the city and how dumbstruck I was. All that I know is that we went to see a ballet at the Nico - Sleeping Beauty and how this production dazzzled me. To this day, i love the ballet and the pomp that comes with old theatre houses. I also remember Anita Head with her cocker spaniel. Strange what one, keeps in your head.
I remember the language laboratory and how my love for reading was kindled here and at the library, my sister and I read foraciously and stood early outside the library waiting to get the latest Beano comics and other annuals!
To cut a very long story short, the black kids that grew up very white actually started sufferign from identity crises. I remember mine well but I guess I was too stubborn and headstrong to let it get to me. The stage was set for a very interesting journey. Looking back on my life as an 'Oranjemund Kid' - that is what we are called because you can tell us apart from crowd instantly. The accent, the demeanour, the vocabulary and a tad of arrogance that comes from a life of privledge.
I think of all us had a hard time adjusting to real life as black young adult and teenager, some coped better than others and some are still searching. My twin sister made a movie about our lives as Oranjemund Kids with her French film-maker husband - try and get a copy.
Oranjemund is my home, were I believed in pixies, goblins and elves and searched for them at Sheperd's Neck! My life was completly Enid Blytonesque.
BEing from Omund has made me the person that I am today and that I never forget. Can you remember OT during the holidays? The Christmas trees was amazing - our Christmasses today still revolve around that feeling. Do remember Mr Hodge the principal? I could go on and on. I never forget the Fields' sisters with their streetwise ways, plucky Sheffield accents and cool dance moves to Howard Jones. I think Shelley was the first 'it' girl in Omund.
Awesome post Ebben! Nice to be able to get a different perspective on things. I think all of us can agree though that it was something special growing up in our little 'sheltered' desert town in the middle of nowhere!!
So where can we get a copy of your sisters movie? Any chance she can post a preview on youtube?
Wow, Ebben, I just got goosebumps from reading your post. Memories indeed, People I had forgotten, I remember Mrs Coffin, Mr Hodge's, Mr Cloete with the White Doctor, Brrrr! The time of integration was a strange time, Do you remember who the first black teacher was? Starts with an A!
We had the Mbeeli Clan immanuel or Iman's as we called him back then. Now known as Bobby. I remember our English teacher , Mr Joseph, ( Not Jackie Joseph) Locking him in a cupboard for some reason or other. Juffie , the afrikaans teacher , with those pincher fingers of her's digging deep into your neck.
Mr Bergh, with the flathand across the back. I remember as a 11 year old coming home after the matinee on a saturday to find Mr Bergh sitting in my fathers lounge knocking back whisky with my dad.... I felt horrified that my dad could bring the man into our house, however as I grew older I got to know him in the pubs... was a great guy...
It's funny when you look at the demographs of the school now, mostly black class with one or two whites ... hehehehe! who would have ever thought?
Anyhow , the purpose of this site is doing what it was created for and there will be more to come.... Anyone think it will be a good idea if we could get the schoolkids to sing the school anthem and record it, convert it to mp3 and put it up here for downloads? Anybody? Anybody?
Does anyone know where any of the 3 Fields girls are ?
I didnt know that this thing existed, my ahem niece alerted me to it's presence...Read Ebben's post and yes, I made the Oranjemund Kids movie. Brad Pelton and I kinda narrated it. I was the first person to get permission to film in Oranjemund town. Getting permission had to come straight from the old Harry O himself...I'll redigitise and give you a headsup when it's on youtube.
I filched a schoolhymnbook when I was filming. 'Oranjemund our desert school..' has been known to be sung at all manner of in vino collapsis sessions all over the world, i'm told...In contact with Kim Krynouw via Facebook and Candice de Clerck has always been in touch, last sighting when we travelled from Kenya to Knysna 4 her nuptials...Jacques de Jager, Anthony Lattimer, the Stuurmans trekked out from Australia...it was fabby!
Amalia Hatutale who is about to leave for South Africa after 8 years of living the life of the truly diasvantaged ladies that lunch on the French Riviera (cow!), remade contact with Magali Soum, remember her? the daughter of the french chef who workd at Hexxen Kessel.
The Rugby World Cup coming up in Paris...and if any ex Oranjemunder is thinking of coming, you have a bed in the 15eme arrondissment!!! Priority to those with the sense to pack a bottle or two of Mrs Balls Chutney and a coupla Peppermint Crisps...
cheers, ebba kalondo
Don't the Soums live in The Free State somewhere?
I thought Rene' opened a restaurant there?
To everyone looking for the Fields girls...can i ask are these Steven Fields sisters?....if so i maybe able to help, i am and have been looking for steven fields for years, I have just found my very dearest old friends from O/M during the 60's Nicolene Barratt and Verona. Sandy Buchannon, John Van der Hooven, Dyan Young Bobby Smith to name but a few. A life long dream as now come true as my time in O/M just seemed like a long forgotten place that has held such special memories for me for so very long, now having re met all these very special people again last year in cape town as we all approached 50 we all still felt the bond.
Back to the fields girls.......While i was in C/T i went to see Mavis Fields who i had found through another friend, I asked about steven but she had not heard from him in a long time. However i know her girls were scattered all over the world, so if these are the ones your looking for please email me at bevwalker@talktalk.net and ill pass on what i can to you....Steven was last heard of in a place called Worksop in england which is just a few miles from me but ive had no look in tracing him, so any info would be great.
ive got lots of old pic and will get them on this site soon.
Ps my dream is to try and get back to O/M this year for a reunion......drawn a blank on this....due to passes and lack of places to stay.....any ideas on that please.
Sure ill be looking on here every night now..........isnt this wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Afternoon Ebben ... 10 out of 10 for your comments . I was born 1956 and I left O'mund in Nov 1980 when the "experiment" was in its early days ... I had friends who stayed in O'mund West .. also part of the experiment vis social integration ... You have grown up into what I read from your writings as a balanced , self aware and understanding being ( under correction but thats my feeling ) ... Yes our little Town gave us a lot .. it was up to the individual to appreciate it . the good points with the bad points and to use what privelege we had to be better beings .. I am so aware of how " different " that town made so many of us and I would want for no better place to have grown up .. My memories are only good and I left when my time to do so was right and then tackled the " real world " where there was very little privelege which was also a great life adventure ....
Most important for us ... Keep on remembering and yes keep on sharing !!
Regards .. Sandy
Hey there
You have definitely caused many memories to pop into my head and put a huge smile on my face! :)
I was just remembering the times when I was a Brownie or Girl Guide (not sure), how we used to walk - at midnight and full moon - from town to Sheperd's Neck, via the desert! That was a reeeaaalllyyy long walk! We walked along the path (now practically a dirt road) that went past the only lost tree standing in the middle of the desert on the left of the tar road, as you drive out of town. By the time you had reached the stables, most of us were crying from "pain and suffering" and most of the parents/teacher volunteers were carrying our backpacks! After arriving at Sheperds Neck, we would then talk about the trip as if it was a wonderful experience and we conquered the world! ;D
Any Brownie or Girl Guides out there? Or even Cubs or Boy Scouts? Hey, what the heck, any Voortrekkers?
? Forshaws, Gerards, Bells, Milsoms, McKay, anyone? :-\
hi to all ex o;MUNDERS,WHAT A GREAT SITE,the warmest of greetings to all.i was born in orangemund in 1958.my twin brothers were the first twins to be born in the town ,by all accounts,there were quite a few sets of twins,but not born in o'mund.my parents,harry and gladys smith lived and worked in the town for 25 years,until my dad passed away in 1972,he is buried in o,mund and one day i will return to pay my respects.my three sisters and us three boys are all now residing in the uk,their names are lillian,mavis ,kay,bernard and graeme.if any of you want to contact us please email bobbysmith7777@yahoo.co.uk god ,i have so many good memories of my childhood in o,mund.ive managed to make contact with a few,bev coats,sandy buchanon,john van der hooven,dyan young,and my best mate,brian eyre who 2 years ago came over to visit me in the uk.i am also in contact with alan eyre and his mom dot.there is so much i would like to say but alas i dont want to be here all nite.many thanks for such a great site bud,take good care all of you,hope to hear from you all who share the same memories.x
It's funny how we all span 5 decades, never met, never knew most of each other.... but we all live(d) here, we always were all family.... we all stood together outside Oranjemund.... especially at boarding school.... but that's another story.. I guess
;)
It is true what you say about the Oranjemunders sticking together at boarding school. I can remember my first day at Rhenish High School and being taken under the wing of Hazel and Wendy Masterton and Donnali Holl. They were able to help me adjust to my new surroundings and I can remember sleeping in Hazel's dorm over the week-ends when I stayed in. I was Std 6 and she was Std 9 at the time so I was really lucky! Bianca Oliver was a standard older and part of the really cool group and I could boast that we came from the same town and she knew me!
My std 6/7 afrikaans teacher also never referred to me as Michele, she called me Suidwester, a name I wore with great pride!
Another great thing was being able to fly home for the holidays, a number of my classmates had never flown before and here was I being able to fly home every holiday. We always hoped for the early flight as then we could miss school, the awful part was having to drag your suitcase down the stairs and then to the front of the school where the bus collected us.
I specifically remember when Namibia had its Independance Day celebrations and we missed about 3 days of school - that was a lot of fun. Anybody else remember dancing to Mango Groove on the hockey club field?
Better end off now - work to do!
Michele
Did you used to like in 5th or 6th Ave - next door to Belinda , you have an older brother- can't remeber his name.
I use to live in 72- 2nd ave. Johnny and Johannay Amutenna lived in 3rd ave.
Hi Claire, yes that's me - 72-4th ave!
Brothers name was Kevin, he was unfortunately killed in a motor accident in 2003.
I am married to Mike and we've got two girls - Shannon will be 9 on Thursday and Cameron is 6!
I can remember the Amutenya's - Johnny was also in trouble. There was another girl our age who lived in 2nd ave, her dad was a chef - I can't remember her name, she had a younger brother and they went off to Kimberley - they lived close to the Mastertons.
hi Michele
My Mom has an old phone book from them days - I will have to get it and look through it , i'm not very good at remembering names. It's all starting to came back to me.
Sorry to hear about your Brother.
I've been in cantact with Rhenish to try and get in contact with everyone, but no luck.
Hi claire and to all who remember me!!!
Johanna Amutenya here!!
My pops was a teacher at OPS ....I remember how he had the kids in laughter with his monday morning assembly sessions!!! Sadly he passed away in 1997.
Anyway at the moment, my eyes are brimming with tears at all the memories that are flooding back from reading all the O'mund stories. Loved Ebban's piece. She could not have put it better!!!! I am one of those kids she so aptly described!!! Claire how is how is your mom? Laurence and Kathleen? Remember how my father and your mother would alternate by taking us to school, depending on which ever parent found the other walking with kids in tow on the 3rd avenue street!!! Say hi to them. John and Juliana are both living in the UK. John married an English girl. I remember how john wld always make fun of Kathleens Irish accent and how Kathleen wld get so annoyed ..sometimes strutting off home in anger from the Park.. am certainly going to be a regular visitor on this site...Am now living and working in Nairobi Kenya..have a young daughter of seven!!!
Michelle sorry to hear about you brother
Hi Johanna
So glad that you've joined the forum! I can remember you, your brother and Dad, I'm sure John was in my standard. (Std 5 in 1988). If I remember correctly your dad was really strict with you guys!
We had a lot of fun in that park, although I fell off the top of the slide once and I can remember my dad pushing me on the swing until I felt ill!
What a carefree existence we had as children in Oranjemund! It is still a great place to raise children and I'm glad that my girls can enjoy the relative freedom of living in Oranjemund.
My mom told me about this site and it brings back alot of fond memories. After being on the site I emailed Ebben yesterday and can you believe it she called me from Windhoek, the last time I saw her was in Standard 5... 23 years ago, it was great to catch up on all the news. Still the same friendly girl. I live in Cape Town now and my brother Paul lives in Amsterdam and can you believe it he has a little boy of 5 years old. I have so many great memories of Oranjemund... who remembers the school buses - when the school bell rang at the end of the day we all used to run as fast as we can to get to the bus to get the back seat, all the cool kids sat on the back seat. In the afternoon all the kids use to take the bus in and out of the town and hang out on the bus - my fathers worst nightmare.... once he saw me on the bus sitting at the back with all the cool kids and followed the bus and made me get off. I was so embarressed. Who remembers PT Classes...I remember many a time forgetting my PT clothes and the teacher used to make you do PT in your school shirt and nickers....some time you didn't have the regular school nickers on and your school shirt was a little short, boy was this embarressing especially when you were doing PT with the boys. I was part of the "blue team" for sports day and Shelly, Sharon (Fields and I were cheerleaders - Sports day was loads of fun. Who remembers "stingers"
Hi Maxine!
Not much changes, the kids still run for the bus at the end of the school day, except these days they need a bus pass to get aboard.
Did Mrs Holland/Miss Wilson give you PT (I took ages to get used to calling it PE - physical education, as it is now known as for us it was always PT - physical torture). Anyway, Mrs Holland is now my daughters PE teacher!
Hi Michelle
Miss Holland was my teacher. It was such a long time ago I can't remember all of them though. Do you know where Natasha Slow is now and Tracy Hockney?
HI Shola
I remember you dont know if you remember me....I think your brothers name is Damian..
Anyway just want to comment on your girl guides/ brownie comment...Memory i have of that is "Busy Beeing" during holidays...knocking on folks doors all over O'mund doing odd jobs to coolect money for a good cause...During one holiday I collected about R40.00 and then...I spent it all on sweets at the Oranjemund cafe...those days R40.00 went along way..so I had plenty of sweets to suckle on while at the Oranjemund swimming pool that was just opposite the single living quarters ...I sheepily had to go and tell Geraldine Mckay- Joanne's mom - I spent the money....I was so embarassed about the situation I never returned to Girl Guides again...
Michelle, I think it is my "Tate" (domestic worker as we then called them) you are talking about as having been the strict one...as while we were at the park playing he would often come and haul John and I to go home and have supper at home....sometimes by the ear!!!
Anyone remember the cross country's we used to run in the desert...past the Christmas fair grounds..I remember once coming second to Denise Du plooy - who was a fab runner- I was so mad....
Hi Johanna
Thinking about the cross country race still gives me shivers of fear. I disliked it intensly. Of course when I got to boarding school and found out that the cross country races there were 10km long, the OPS race didn't seem so bad.
Funny thing though, Denise (I'm married to Denise du Plooy) and I watched our eldest daughter run her first OPS cross country race a few weeks ago, Denise broke into tears as she watched the little one's dash off into the desert. I suppose the memories came flooding back.
I did tried to comfort her by giving some assurance that it wasn't good-bye and the little one's are expected to return at some point - she didn't see the humour. :-\
Hi Warren...also remember you..you must know my brother John Amutenya as I think your brother Darryl shared the same class as him at one point at OPS...You married to Denise!!!! I am sure in our early O'mund days at OPS nobody would have thought you would pair up in the future ;) ...
Pease pass my regards to Denise and I hope to chat to her some time on this forum...Also tell her that I never got over her winning the Victrix Lodoreum trophy when we were in standard five - the trophy awarded to the best all over achiever at the Rhodes, Banarto and Oppenheimer races - :'( Came second to her in everything except the hurdles.... She had a real fear about the hurdle race - ask her about that one am sure she will remember-... At the start uo line before Mr. Bergh set us off with that loud pistol like gun ..she would be whispering next to me ... " Oh Johanna ek is so bang ek weet jy sal eerste kom in die hurdles"..something like that ... :) Hope your little girl kept up the "Du Plooy" tradition at the OPS country by coming first....
Anyway how is your sister Tammy? She loved hanging out at the O'mund public pool especially with a girl called Kim Davis . Kim had a brother called Miles. Remember that Miles loved collecting reptiles and all sorts of scary crawly creatures that he probably hunted for in the desert... I think he had all types of them kept in his room to the best of my recollection ...thats the memory I have of them...
You stay well
Cheers
Kim and Myles Davies. He was always in and out of desert collection all sorts. They lived in 15th ave I think.
Darryl or Warren - where is Tammy these days and Sumie Germishuizen?
I remember Tammy dancing at the street party to the Locomotion.
I remember John well, him and my sister were in the same class, if I remember correctly.
Tammy is now living in Johannesburg and working as an accountant. She actually won the swimming Victrix Ladorum in std 5 - so all that time at the pool must have paid off.
Sumi stays somewhere in Cape Town if I'm not mistaken.
Yes it was Kim Davies and her brother was Miles Davies (no relation to Miles Davis - I assume).
Cheers
Waah, Warren, i still remember the rock Romeo and juliet 'opera' you and Paul put up in std four or was it five. Honk like a seal everytime i think about it...
My daughter met up with Johanna's daughter when we were living in kenya. Jo, plse come to paris, Lea misses her little friend!
Brandon vd Westerhuizen caught up with me on fb and hopefully i'll hook up with him soon. A reunion is afoot in south london this summer, but mostly young uns...i'm sooo old. sigh.
We should get Micheal Alexander to organise a last Teenage Dance for all ahem old teenagers; we invade the new town, reappropriate it for a weekend, demand for those fuchsia pink sausages and leave havoc in our wake. sounds like a plan to me; anything to come back. My eldest sister Johanna is a sub b teacher at OPS. oh.my.god!
My youngest daughter doesnt know Oranjemund, my teenaged son is well versed in the way of the Tank Park Legend, he even knows about Oom Danie....Julie Greig's hero. I hear she's a horsewhisperer somewhere...anyone know where she is?
Hi Claire,
You probably don't remember me, but if your Dads' name is Larry, I certainly remember him. If your address was 72-2nd, it must have been his house...... on the corner if my memory serves me correctly? I used to live at 76-2nd, just a few houses down. Looks like you have moved back to Ireland. I served a small part of my apprenticeship with him in the Compressor workshop on the mine. Those were good times ...... he used to play many a prank on me. All the stories he used to tell us about the IRA in that strong Northern Ireland accent of his had us all listening in amazement. Have your folks moved to Ireland as well? What are they up to? Trust they are all well?
I grew up in Oranjemund from age 7 (1964) on and off until 1994 and now live in Cape Town. It's amazing to read all these stories and find out where people are now - well done Mike!
Those who remember us will know the Alcock kids - Cecile, Cindy, Cherry, Coral and Billy (Bill). Cindy and my father Bill are buried in Oranjemund and I will go (come) back one day to see their graves and Oranjemund as I have not been back in 13 years.
Bobby, remember "konyntjiedorp"? That was the east end of town - the "new" section where all the families with more than 4 kids lived! ;D As kids we used to build forts (two storeys and more!) out of the creosoted fence poles (remember Sandy B?).
Cheers all
Cherry
Hi Johanna
I was also with John, Tammy, etc. Good times. Yes, my brother was Damien (he passed on the 2nd July '96). I also used to be at the pool with Kim and them, great times!
When you talk about Miles, it makes me think about Steven Lineker who also collected all kinds of creeepy things! The worst thing I remember, was he used to catch little birds in traps, tie fishing line to their necks, then when they flew away, he would yank the line and then... DISGUSTING! So, yes, I have weird and scary images in my head now. He also taught me to smoke... Which I haven't done since Feb '04!
After reading Cherry ( Alcock's) comments about building forts from the splitpole fencing, in the 1960's , I must confess that Mike's comments about Oranjemund being like a family is very apt. People like David and Tony Hockney and others will remember the, same forts we built in 1955 - 56 etc when the first fences were going up
We also used to use the corrugated Iron sheets to make underground dens. Oh yes the other use for the corrugated sheeting if you could get the steam roller to drive over it, was to bend it in the middle nail a 2 x 3 in the front and back and voila you had a canoe to take to the pink pan or down to the river.
I lived and grew up in Oranjemund from 1952 - 2005.
cherry i remember it like it was yesterday,what great memories,i still havent managed to contact coral,please send email,i loved makeing them forts,only problem was mom and dad knew where you had been cos you came home covered in glue and stank of creosolt,bath time,our house boy called johannes ,spoke english with a cockney accent,the men from the town used to come to our house just to listen to johannes talk,mom a broad cockney tought him to speak,his favourite saying to me was ,bobby git in the bloody baff,[bath]take good care all x
Hi Ebba - yes I remember the Romeo and Juliet skit... I think we started with a play by the name of Dunce Detectives and then moved on to Shakespear.
When people ask (which for some reason, they don't) I always like to say that myself and Paul once produced Romeo and Juliet when we were in std 5. ;D
Hi Cherry, do you remember me Bev Coates i lived on 2nd ave and i remember you very well, we were in the brownies together, i still have a photo that was taken in 1965 of the group, will try post in on here for you to see,
I live in yorkshire but went out to cape town last year to meet up with nicolene barrat, verona, dyan young, sandy buchannon, john van der hoovan.....had a great time....your name was mentioned as we all tried to see who could remember most,
hi cherry,bobby here once again,can you please forward me an active email address for coral,the last one you posted keeps bouncing,by the way,how are the rest of the family keeping,many thanks,love bobby
Hi guys, its Shelley-anne Fields here, I am now known as Skyler and live in Sydney Australia. bloody hell I have been in tears reading everyone's postings. Ebben I remeber you and your sister well and Johanna too!! Gee what a flood of memories this is bringing back!!!! My sister Sharon is married with 3 children and living in Scotland and Stephanie is living in the UK as well, in fact not far from where we grew up. Someone mentioned my brother, unfortunately we haven't seen him in about 18 years and have no idea where he is.
Maxine, gee it was nice to see you are alive and well, it has been bloody ages!!!! I left O'mund in 1991 and then left for the UK in 1994. Backpacked around the world for 10 years and ended up in Australia where I have my a children's party business.
Who could ever forget the bus trips home during the Easter weekends? There was one particular weekend that a few of tricksters got a bit tipsy on ...(i forget the name of that flavoured, barely alocoholic beverage) and we all got into big trouble and the next long weekend, my dad and Jim Reid drove down to Cape Town and picked about 6 of us up as we were banned from the bus.
What about all the nights going to the discos at the youth club and then sitting outside on those black cement blocks and talking shit for hours??? Not to mention puffing on a few naughty cigarettes and going behind the youth club to the guide hall to sneak a naughty drink??
And when it was time to go home everyone woudl walk home in a big group dropping people off along the way until everyone was home safe and sound.
Remeber the Youth Club trips to the Pink pan, I don't remember Sheppards Neck, where was it again??? I remember Beavallon Farm well and those peskly bloody monkeys!!!!!!!!
I remember movie evenings at Russel Pounds house, braais at the Alexanders house with my dad playing the mouth organ and the spoons and Jock and Vi alexander singing the most amazing songs. I remember Our Sharon, Warren, paul, Barry, Brad and Jo M sticking together like glue for years, I remember hanging out with Virginae and Peta Clark.
wow, so much to tell.......
Anybody know where Shane Stuurman and Berverley Forbes are?
Shelly I remeber you.
Either you or one of your sisters took Kathleen and I to the pictures to see Bambi one Saturday.
And two of you lived in the caravan in the Garden for a while. Can't remember which two. You lived in first ave. We lived in 72-2 ave. Your dad told me off for useing his mouth organ before brushing my teeth, cause it would get food stuck in it. The rope seing was outside your back gate.
My Goodness . . . Hi Cherry,
You may not remember me, but way back in about 1969 you asked me to be your boyfriend. It was at the swimming pool, late in the evening. I recall like it was yesterday - Wow!!
Keith Margetts 19 Outer Crescent (1968 to 1977)
Saanichton, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Hi claire, I can't remember you but it was me, Sharon Fields, that had a caravan outside the house, it was my bedroom!!! Got up to naughty things back then...... Oh and my dad's mouth organ, I got to play it to, and now I play the flute..... i take after my dad for the tunes. Hope to hear from you soon, Sharon. I think it was Shelley that took you to the movies to see Bambi, I still cry at that and so does my son Kieran.
Here is a photograph of Omund children that Delia might remember.
From Left to Right: Gary Opperman (Dog Stitch), Linda Olivier, Lance Olivier, Kevin Klynick and Delia Olivier
Taken with my first camera in 1967/68? - old black and white Polaroid - quite a messy business instant development - amazing that it lasted all these years!
Richard 8)
What has happened to the Klynicks - last I heard was when they moved to White River in 1969 / 70?
Richard 8)
Where was the Pic Taken? ???
In the Olivier's front garden in outer crescent Oranjemund.
richard, that's awesome man. of course i remember you guys well - you lived opposite us on the corner. i seem to remember a black labrador you had - blackie? am i correct? i really must find out who's got our family photos - lance, linda or my mom (they circulate between us - there's a photo which my dad took (remember he loved his camera) of you and i think gary, etienne terblance, lance, linda in a home made go kart in our garden - i'm in the background (± 2 yrs old) standing by the open garden gate with my nappy hanging around my knees. :D
Yes our dog was Blackie - good memory - it will be great seeing other old photographs.
Regards to your mom, Lance and Linda.
Richard and Debby 8)
Hi Cherry,
yes i was blonde...ish....my hair has since been so many colours think im gray now underneath.
i had been looking for nicolene barratt for ages....years...then i found her and flew straight out to see her and cousin verona, sandy buchanon, john van der hoovan, and dyan young i had a great time, and planned an even bigger reunion this year, will try find the photo of us in the brownies 1966...not seen it since i came back from c/t last year...where in the world are you these days....dont feel too guilty if you dont remeber anything about me...ive never forgot your name or face ....but not much else other than you were there....and have searched for you on freinds reunited along with all the others i remember. this is me in our garden on 2nd ave in 1965.
bev coates
Quote from: bobbysmith on July 26, 2007, 04:57:06 PM
hi cherry,bobby here once again,can you please forward me an active email address for coral,the last one you posted keeps bouncing,by the way,how are the rest of the family keeping,many thanks,love bobby
Hi Bobby,
I'll try to get a different email address for Coral and will email to you as soon as I can.
Cheers
Cherry
Quote from: kbmarget on August 07, 2007, 09:59:27 PM
My Goodness . . . Hi Cherry,
You may not remember me, but way back in about 1969 you asked me to be your boyfriend. It was at the swimming pool, late in the evening. I recall like it was yesterday - Wow!!
Keith Margetts 19 Outer Crescent (1968 to 1977)
Saanichton, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Seems nothing changed! I'm still voor op die wa! Tried to see what you look like now but with age the eyes don't see the teeny pics so well! :D
Quote from: Richard Opperman on August 24, 2007, 04:08:12 PM
Here is a photograph of Omund children that Delia might remember.
From Left to Right: Gary Opperman (Dog Stitch), Linda Olivier, Lance Olivier, Kevin Klynick and Delia Olivier
Taken with my first camera in 1967/68? - old black and white Polaroid - quite a messy business instant development - amazing that it lasted all these years!
Richard 8)
I recognised Lance right away, even though I haven't seen im (not even on a photo) for almost 30 years. And I didn't know him till he was about in standerd 6 or 7.
Another 2 Kids of O-mund
That's a long time ago, hey. hope Marcel hasn't lost his new teeth too.
hihi. :yeah3:
I know he's member too. I wonder whether he#ll be seeing and reading this someday.