Shaun Wood??

Samantha Lawson (Clingham · September 26, 2007, 09:00:29 PM

Would love to track Shaun down who I last saw in the early 80's. Does anybody know where he is or has contact details for me?

Michael Alexander · September 26, 2007, 09:20:09 PM

Is that family of Ozzie Woods?

???

Sandy Wood · September 27, 2007, 11:40:13 AM

Samantha, this is Sandy, Shaun's sister. Shaun is living in Knysna.

Julie Vice (Willson) · September 27, 2007, 02:33:05 PM

Does anyone have contact details for Helen Ullrich? I know she moved to Tunbridge Wells in Kent, she was going to marry a doctor so her surname may have changed

Nicky Hodge · September 27, 2007, 03:11:34 PM

Sandy,are you Heidi Woods' sister? You used to have a Pondok called " Clovelly" and a wishing well in the garden?

Sandy Wood · September 27, 2007, 03:38:19 PM

Hi Nicky, yes I am. My word, I'd forgotten about the wishing well and the pondok........well not the pondok, who can ever forget about the pondoks, I'd forgotten that it was called "clovelly". How are you?

Nicky Hodge · September 28, 2007, 01:53:10 PM

Hi again Sandy, I am very well thanks. Hope you are too? I live in Oz these days, but the good ol' memories of those years are never too deeply hidden in the spatial void that is my brain. I forget people's names at work, but I can still remember that your Pondok was called "Clovelly" after all these years .... Go figure. I can remember visiting you and Heidi and seeing the hanging wooden "plaque" with "Clovelly" carved in it. I think your Dad may have made it. How is Heidi, and what have you all been up to over the years? Where did you move to after leaving the Mund?

Nick

Paul Alexander · September 28, 2007, 01:56:03 PM

Sandy, your dad, the first video shop in Oranjemund, used to come to your house with a machine and a suitace full of tapes... we did go tgo the house on one or two occasions to drop off the machie and I remember the wishing well too....

Michael Alexander · September 28, 2007, 01:59:55 PM

I bet you did'nt wish that you could spell! hehehehehe! ;)

Nicky Hodge · September 28, 2007, 03:47:31 PM

That was good Mike ..... LOL. Forever the stirrer!!

Sandy Wood · September 28, 2007, 04:16:47 PM

What on earth did you guys get up at the wishing well........????? Wow, the video shop. While it brought you all much pleasure I am sure, it robbed us of our pondok, a sad state of affairs since that was a "making out" spot.

Nicky Hodge · September 29, 2007, 02:02:36 AM

Sandy, that's probably why everyone seems to remember the wishing well. LOL.

RichardGerstner · September 29, 2007, 08:16:14 AM

Sorry Sandy,

I IM'd you thinking you were Heidi's Mum... my Bad !!

Do you have contact info for Heidi, we were together at school.

Regards
Richard

PS : We sat watching movies that weren't being rented until the wee hours at Heidi's place - Wow, another regained memory.

Sandy Wood · September 29, 2007, 08:38:45 AM

Hi Nicky, it certainly appears that way ;) I do believe that your apparent vivid memory of the "clovelly" sign has little to do with the actual sign and more to do with teenage lust. ;) ;) ;) ..... It's great to be getting in touch with lost friends. There is definatley something unique about us Oranjemunders. Heidi is well. She's still in Cape Town, owns her own design school and business. Still single and doing well for herself. I'm well thank you. After I left Oranjemund my parents moved to Knysna and I went into the Hotel Industry and worked for Holiday Inns in Wilderness for a number of years. Got married and moved to Richards Bay in 1986 (still here), started a family, my son is 20 and my daughter is 16. I went into politics in the early 1990's and served 5 years on the Richards Bay City Council. I simultaneously got involved in environmental issues and founded the Richards Bay Clean Air Association in 1997 to monitor air qulaity. I am one of the Directors and 10 years later and an operating budget of R2m we are still going strong and doing great work. And that's my life in a nutshell. When did you go to Oz and what are you doing? Were you by any chance part of the daft bunch - me included - who decided one hot summers day to walk all the way to the yacht club.... along the road because we were too scared to take a "short cut" through the dessert? I know Heidi and Mel Ebstein were with but as for the rest, my memory fails me.

Sandy Wood · September 29, 2007, 08:49:56 AM

Richard, Richard, Richard,.... what does a 40 something girl say to a guy who thinks that she is her sister's mother.... :-* you're forgiven. I recall your surname but I cannot place you, Heidi will probably be able to jog my memory. I remember the movie nights, great fun! I will e-mail you Heidi's contact details but be warned she'll probably take forever to get back to you.