The first avenue bushes

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Bev, what good hope you give us "youngsters", in the naughty 40's age group:  jippee, at age 50 you can still reach the highest branches; that's if you're willing to climb.  And why not act out a few 'aapstreke' while you are at it? 

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

Hi Darlene......I have only just seen you message....i still get verrrry confused by this site ..........what is aapstreke????
I havent got a clue ....but i like a challenge hoolahoop1

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

The word aapstreke is figure of speech for any funny antics you try - being humerous, pulling the odd joke on someone else, something you do that might be an embarrassment to yourself (but you accept it that way) - one usually use it when speaking to children  -  the English translation for it is Monkey Business.

So, do go about your aapstreke the way you want to  -  it's yours!

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

 beautiful   50 is the new 40      to us  hoolahoop1

[Clive Symes]

Just saw the picture of Bev climbing the tree's in her garden in second ave.

I remember all the trees my Dad planted especially the fir trees in the garden in first ave, from the top of these you were able to see the sea on a clear day.
Kids that lived in Oranjemund certainly learned to climb trees like monkeys.
At one time you could move from one end of the 1st ave trees to the other end and back without touching the ground

[Michael Alexander]

@Clive, I remember trying to do that, the Ovambo Toilets and the big green substation (where the angling club is today) always proved to be an obstacle...

[wayne wilson]

hi CLIVE,MIKE.i was caught climbing trees by BERTIE HAWKINS who was in charge of parks and gardens.i told him my name was teddy coffin who was my cousin.unfortuatly he knew my folks don and sybyl wilson and noreen and joe coffin (my aunt and uncle)so didv not get away with it.i had to work at the rec club gardens 4 2 weeks as punnishment.you could not pretend to be anybody else those days everybody knew everybody in town.news was quicker than the phone ,before you got home your folks knew everything you had done that day even though they had been working the whole day.regards WAYNE.

[georg ruf jr.]

How true that is Wayne.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

I recall Diane Young and I bunking out one night,my father discovered this and came looking for us. Well we cleared the Lisser's back fence,(ok Diane did after pushing me up and over) run into the first Ave trees and hid.My father must have seen us because all of a sudden he was shinning the cars headlights into the trees missing us by millimetres lighting up a gemsbuck breathing down our necks.Well we stood very still and sh*t ourselves untill father dearest ,gave up and went home.  The both of us have never forgotten this story and bore people sh*tless with it after we've had a few 

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Wonder how many others can also blame the "brake marks" in pants on a gemsbok.  Not many other people from the 'world out there'. Not ashamed of it, so I can add my name to the list as well.  I personally know the ledgend from the Kalahari - Tiens Spanneberg - who catches gemsbok bare handed from his bakkie window, but that's maybe the only other person in the world who has had such an encounter with a gemsbok, but cannot add the sh*t part to it.  Him and his fearless tjommas will never admit that they have ever had an encounter where they were afraid of something.  That's where we lots are unique in our ways - we can admit even the red faced moments of our lives and laugh about them, 'cos no matter what, they are part of your life and you can't wipe it away.  Like Sandy on his Bike  -  ha  - would have loved to see that.  Miracle how one's body can sometimes keep the balance on moving things when your brain is so toppled over already.

[angus Buchanan]

Hi Clive,
Yes - we all tried that and succeeded on occasions but we had many a fall in the process (starting on one end of the bushes and jumping/swinging/falling from tree to tree until the end) Do you remember the parks and gardens bloke -"Hawkeye Hawkins ' - he was the person who always chased us out of the trees/broke our dens/broke our "great escape" tunnels etc.? Many a good day was had in those trees.

regards Angus

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

Hi Angus, .........pleased to meet you on here..........Im really hopeless re finding messages ect......but i saw one from you saying you were good friends with Percy Barratt,   I posted a message a while ago asking if anyone knew Percy.....and not 1 person responded.
Were you friends with him from 1964-66 do you remember,  If so i would love to ask you a few things........

I spent a couple of weeks with Nicolene last year, but she cant remember the stuff about Percy i was hoping she could........I was really sad that he had died before i found them,...........

Luv Bev x

Ps to Clive.........Hi Clive....dont know why i didnt think of this before.......ive always remembered my old address......that is untill i asked mike to take a photo for me.....and having taken me a couple.....ooops of yet again the wrong house....i realized that since getting involved with this site my brain has turned to mush and i dont rememebr anything ......never thought to ask you..........which house number did i live at on 2nd ave.......then maybe i dare ask again if mike has the time 

[angus Buchanan]

Hi Bev,
Yes Percy, the Castle brothers and myself were friends in those days (Percy And Phillip were the seniors and Peter and myself the juniors). We lived in 55/2nd ave (between the 2 Barratt families - the Castles were accross the road from Percy and the Hockney familiy were accross the road from us). I do not know where Percy is - have heard nothing about him for years.i remember the Coates girl/s somewhere in the back of my memory bank - we all used to play together many years ago. I will post some of the antics that we used to get up to at a later date.

Regards Angus.

PS. Looks like you people do not sleep over there!

[SandyB]

Ok  good  to  see  Gus  doing some  writing  .. I  been  doing  a  lot   up  till  now ..  right  now  got  lots on  my  plate  .. builders  at  the  house  ..  projects  at work  etc   so  will  be going  into  a  sort of  semiretiremnt  from  the site for  a  few weeks   ..  so  dont get woried  and post  a  where    the @#$% is  Sandy ? topic  Ok ??

@ Mike  what  is  the  name  of   an independent hardware  store  in   O'mund  ??  or does  the  name  Harold  Webster  ring  a  bell ??

[Michael Alexander]

Pupkewitz Hardware, the big boys in the country, Harold is the manager, a lot of People call him Harold Pupkewitz, like the owner of the business.....