Bread and Milk deliveries

[Vikki de Jager (Summers)]

Remember when you used to hang a bucket on a nail by your gate for your bread and milk delivery ? There were little circular 'coupons' with holes in them - red for bread and white for milk - which you used to place into the bucket to indicate how many of each you wanted. Imagine doing that nowadays or anywhere else - you'd never find anything in your bucket !! For those who arrived after all this - there used to be a Bakery opposite the school (you could smell the bread from the Sub-A classrooms), and there used to be a farm across the river at Beauvallon with pigs, hens, cows and an orange orchard.

We used to be taken to the Bakery and to Beauvallon farm on field trips when we were at school. I also remember being trooped off to the dentist for a visit, and to the hospital for some booster shot or other - we all had to walk there in a long line holding someone else's hand and we were given sugar lumps afterwards. Small comfort when you'd spent ages standing in the queue and the stories being spread down the line of how sore the needles were got worse and worse - and having a surname ending in S meant that I was near the end of the line !

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

I was just telling a relatively new O'munder about the bread and milk deliveries on Sunday - she couldn't quite believe it! I can also remember walking to school and smelling that fresh bread! I think we must have also been one of the few schools where so many kids got braces on their teeth, thanks to the regular visits to the dentists! At least you were S, I came in way behind Clayton at V!

I can remember when we had our eyes tested that by the time we had to read the board we knew  the letters without even having to look at the board because of all the kids in front of us!

I must say that it is still quite wierd to go to the school for my kids school functions as it doesn't seem that long ago that I was in school here! Also poor Shannon has had a few teachers saying to her "your mother was in my class!"

Here's to OPS - Std 5 class of 1988!

[Sandy Buchanan]

Yes  truly  amazing ..  bucket  and  contents  would  be  heisted  nowadays .. I  remember  so  well  the   delivery  van  .. we   as  kids  used  to  beg / bully  the  man  on  the back  to give  us   a  loaf of  the  bread  that  was  baked  for  the  Hostels .. It  was delicious   , made  to  a   specific  formula  and  far  more  nutritious   and  tastier  than  ordinary  bread  , I  think  they  used   ground  peanuts  in the  formula ...  walking to  school  and  smelling  the  baking  .. a  good memory ....... In  my  last  years    in O'mund I stayed   in  CFC  complex  so  the  smell became  so  common  to one  that one  did  not  notice  it  anymore ... 

[Michael Alexander]

We were caught by security and taken to down to checkpoint for stealing bread form the back of that van on our bikes...... the security chap packed about 8 of us kids into that little yellow mazda After storming into our parents house( at work) to "arrest" us.... gee what a fright....

;)

[Michael Alexander]

The Old Bakery now lies abandoned!

[brandonvdw]

Guys i lived in 6th ave in my last days there...the walk to school or bike ride often did not go a miss with me chowing fresh bread from other peoples buckets......warm and lovley......never did get caught well there is a confession..hahahahaaa.....

[Delia]

Cuz - good to have you on-line.  what happened to quote :"all well behaved in omund....well kind off........waited till i got to CT and London.......". Gotcha!  You guys should've done it the easy way like us - just stop off at the bakery on the way to school with a bread coupon and exchange it for a hot loaf straight out the ovens - in winter we used to get 2, scoop out the bread (eat it of course) and use the hollowed out loaves as gloves - worked wonders.

[Andrew Darné]

That yummy fresh bread smell wafting across to the school around first break... mmmh... anyone got a coupon???

[wendymasterton]

Aaahhhh those were the good old days.  I remember the coupons well......god how things have changed.

Wendy

[Claire Mc Cullagh]

Hi Andrew
how are you? How is you mom and dad and your sisters? 

[Andrew Darné]

Hi Claire
They are all well. Check your PM.

Andrew

[JohanB]

One of our favorite things to do very early on a saturday morning was to go and look for a bread and milk bucket that had more than one break token in, then swipe the extra one and then we'd go looking for the bread lorry, exchange the token for a fresh, hot loaf, and climb in a tree like monkeys and eat breakfast. I can still taste that awesome bread!

At lunch time, the owambo's would park the lorry in the shade somewhere, climb out and catch a snooze. Well, then you didn't need a token to get a loaf... You'd sneak up, out of line of sight, grab a loaf or two, and head for the nearest bush!

Man, those were the days!

I also remember Kim (Kraynow?) (or was it her friend?) had a trampolin in their yard (I think it was the east end of 7th avenue), a huge, built in one that everybody knew about. So once, when nobody was home, we scaled their fence and jumped non-stop, until we got busted by her father! He gave us a good scolding, and we never went back...

[Michael Alexander]

I could never imagine Les Krynauw getting upset.......

[Gary Mc Manus]

I also remember swiping bread tokens and swapping them for warm bread. Used to dig the warm dough from the inside of the bread and leave the rest. Don't think i could manage that now

[Patricia Lotte]

Weren't there black coupons for brown bread? I was an honest girl back then (nowadays ... ...), so did like Delia, just used to leave for school with a coupon in my pocket and stop at the back of the bakery for a nice hot loaf of bread. My mom found out about it years later and was ashamed that we behaved liked kids that weren't being fed at home!

In addition to the milk and bread in the buckets, I would eagerly await the weekly newsletter that came on Fridays (or was it Saturdays). It later became a monthly newsletter.