The back of the school!

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

 

Should have asked long ago about this  -  could never remember what we called it!   

[Michael Alexander]

Skalulu, I remember that, We ll I did'nt until Delene mentioned it, memory found, was one of my favourite games....

I also remember, the guys making pipes outta those "acorns" that fell of the trees at school, by sticking a stick in the side of the akker.....

[georg ruf jr.]

... almost forgot... twiceys...... and remember those guys with the gates, with the different numbers ontop, you got the arlie through, you got that number of marbles back.....

Yeah! We made them in wood-wor5k.
Or do you remember eye-drop?

[Michael Alexander]

Way... 2 go georg, eye drop, where you stood above the marble and tried to drop it on the marble below to win it?

[georg ruf jr.]

Yip!

[Stephen Brooke]

Is it only me but I remember my marbles being of equal value to the money in my pocket those days.  Arlies were CURRENCY!...now my marbles are non-existent or useless, so my wife says all too often.  Here in Holland they're called 'knikkers'  My kids laughed at me when  I called them arlies....

[Michael Alexander]

How many of you went home to your dad's garage and took the spraypaint can apart, just to get the cHinese checker out?

[Stephen Brooke]

Tigers eyes.....in that chemical dispenser in your toilet cistern!

[Michael Alexander]

If you went down to the Rubbish area of the Carpenter shop, there were tons of old spray cans there, kinda like a treasure chest for Arlie enthusiasts!

[Stephen Brooke]

That was a great place to pick up junk, modify it and you've got yourself a cool toy.  Amazing what they threw away.....I sniffed my first GLUE there!.....aaaaah what a fond memory!

[Michael Alexander]

The bigger marbles were to be found Town Garage in the dumps..... Big Shiney Goonies ( er! Ballbearings,) , But whenever you put one down, the marbles would fly, You could be as rich as Bill Gates in marbleland by the end of the day!

[Stephen Brooke]

One of the best dumps....not well known though.....was behind the hospital (on the way to the carpenters' dump after school)...there they used to dispose of used needles, syringes, tubing (for kattys)...glass syringes! (priceless!) and unused ampules of god-knows-what.  I used to play 'junkie'  there.  Once I accumulated a concoction of fluids in a moerse syringe and injected anything which resembled a fruit on the way home......needless to say a couple of days later the fruit was rather brown and dead.  Jabbed myself by mistake too!!!!

[Michael Alexander]

.... and now you live in Holland!    mmmh! Is there perhaps a link here?   



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[Stephen Brooke]

Yep....here the state supplies CLEAN needles!!! free!

[Michael Alexander]

I was just a wondering what the hospital does with all their waste now that the incinerator burned down?

There are strong rumours doing the rounds again, about the hospital being outsourced next year!