Priceless moments (Childhood years: 1970 - 1980)

Going away

• Horse riding at Old Bells
• Uilenskraal camping (huge breakfasts, mole snake, fishing)
• Birkenhead
• Camping with the Cully's
• England: Rollerskating, lego and Fisher Price fire engine, bird nest

Collecting

• Stamps
• Dad's stamps - incorporating into mine
• Fishing tackle

Granny and Grandpa

• Walk to flat with Grandpa
• Grandpa in the garage
• Granny's chicken lunch, veggies and junket
• Birkenhead Hotel with Grand and Gramps: walks, Welsh Rarebit
• Chocolate Logs from Granny

Gran and Gramps

• Visits to Cape Town (Gramp's pipe, Newlands pool, beach)
• Reading the book I won with Granny in bed
• Moving to Cape Town
• Overnights at Epworth Road

Garden

• Beatie boys soccer games
• Climbing tree
• Toys on beam in garden
• Climbing at the back
• Throwing the ball for the dogs

Xmas

• Opening Xmas presents in turn. Mum always so generous.
• Xmas with the Cully's
• The excitement the night before Xmas
• Computer games

Outings

• The Castle Dungeon
• Sea Point walks with San Marco ice-cream and train

The beach

• Paddling with Gramps at Boulders
• Muizenberg
• St James
• Granadilla lollies
• Muizenberg with Grandpa (Appletiser)

The outside room

• Table tennis
• Train set

Swimming

• Newland's pool
• Swimming in our pool for first time when only half full
• Marco polo in the pool

Playing

• Playing Atari (Space Invaders, Pong)
• Playing garden trucks, army men, action men
• Rollerskating, lego and Fisher price (London)
• Lego and Fisher price
• Lone Ranger and Tonto (and wanting horse)
• Army Men and army trucks, especially boat lander
• Trainset

Movies and TV

• Movies (Cavendish, school)
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• Indiana Jones
• Live and Let Die
• End of term movies on stage at school
• Fri movies at Vista Nova
• Saturday night - Magnum with chocolate

Reading

• Richie Rich and Archie comics
• Tintin
• Asterix and Obelix
• Enid Blyton, especially Secret 7 and Famous 5

Dad's trains

• Exploring local wood, inspiring the story of the puppies
• Going into train boiler

Food

• Granny Station's roast chicken & junket
• Mum's chocolate mousse, banana pudding & crème caramel
• Leche sorbet at San Marcos (Sea Point)
• Mum's chicken soup
• Mum's Xmas cake
• Jam donuts and custard slice at Silwood bakery
• Mum's Xmas dinners, particularly xmas pudding and brandy butter
• Granadilla lollies, St James
• Caramel crisp ice-creams as a kid
• Mum's Sunday Roasts
• Coffee and Top Deck watching TV on Saturday nights
• Mum's rice pudding
• Mum's crunchies
• Welsh Rarebit at The Birkenhead
• Appletizer on the beach with grandpa as a kid
• Granny's chicken lunch with junket

Restaurants

• Mount Nelson lunches with the family as a kid
• Birkenhead dinners with granny and grandpa as a kid
• Spur Hot Rock & Pecan-Nut Sunday
• Pancake place
• The Casanova

Movies