Fruit for Africa!

[Julie Vice (Willson)]

She was the Bon Appetite lady, the hotdog stand?

Is this not Maria kiessling??????

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

I worked in the hairdressers in the 70's and when i started Marie was the owner she then sold it to Marina Botha am sure that was her surname her husband was the fire chief

[Lance Olivier]

Hiya All. Yes Aunty Marie Redl was the owner of the hairdressers for a couple of years and then at one time her and Aunty Bonnie Viljoen started the hotdog thing. @ Lorena good to see you on the site LOL. I remember the olive trees (Aunty Marie still makes the best bottled olives ever; never ate olives until I tasted Aunty Marie's, and nothing in the shops compares). Also recall picking mushrooms on the golf course. Had to get to the course before the mowers arrived but wow the size of those mushies, one would fit on a slice toast "after" the dude was fried. Had a slight marzipan taste but soooo yummy.

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

She was the Bon Appetite lady, the hotdog stand?

Is this not Maria kiessling??????

Mike, Julie said she knew her grey matter wasn't letting her down but you are forgiven as it was long before your time.

She keeps promising me that she is going to bed after her glass of red wine, we are now a bottle and a half and she is still sitting here drinking. OMG, now she is going to phone my dad to see what he is up too> 

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[Eugene Viljoen]

Paula,

Hi, Eugene here.

Send my regards to Noel.

The HGotdog stand belonged to my mom, Bonnie Viljoen and Marie Redl. I should have never sold it to them.

Regards,

Eugene

[Eugene Viljoen]

I have to go sleep.....maybe one should say....."afwiedrschien" ...excisse the spalling. My german is phathetic.

[Julie Vice (Willson)]

She was the Bon Appetite lady, the hotdog stand?

Is this not Maria kiessling??????

Mike, Julie said she knew her grey matter wasn't letting her down but you are forgiven as it was long before your time.

She keeps promising me that she is going to bed after her glass of red wine, we are now a bottle and a half and she is still sitting here drinking. OMG, now she is going to phone my dad to see what he is up too> 

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Love you too my darling, you know what they say???? " You can choose your friends but not your family"

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[Michael Alexander]

Hey Eugene, one day, as kids my boet and myself were digging through the rubbish that you guys had thrown out ( u only lived 4 houses down from us...) as there was interesting junk in their...one of the things we found was a giant J&B bottle , the blow up one...do you remember this?

My brother also took two small tree's that you guys had thrown out and took them home and planted them at E7-1st ave, I walked past there two weeks ago and both those tree's are taller than the house now....

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

Growing up as a child at 72-4th Ave we had figs, guava's, lemons and bananas from the garden. My dad also had a very successful veggie patch. Our next door neighbours had an avo tree in their garden but it never bore much fruit.

At my folks house 2-6th Ave they now have an avo tree which bears the nicest avo's. My dad also has a veggie patch there which also produces a lot of veggies - carrots, spring onions, broadbeans, green peppers, tomatoes, etc.

[Michael Alexander]

For some strange reason, even though they never grew in Omund, I used to be always fascinated as a kid at the mule derby at the coconut shy.... COconuts in Oranjemund...I never won one of those blerrie things..........

[Cherry (Alcock)]

That was the absolute best; winning a coconut from the shy an dthen smashing it on the road to get at the flesh - yummy!  My brother Bill alway swon at least one and then we had to pay very steep bribery charges to gt some!

Yesterday I picked my first strawberries of the season from my garden - only three but they were yummy!