Priceless moments (School years: 1977 - 1988)

At school

• Vista Nova - maths races, Friday movies, annual fete
• Pompeii and Dido projects
• School stationery
• Fun at school with Julian and Kaffin
• Hot lunch, especially instant dessert
• The tuck shop (especially tomato fritos)
• Xmas Cathedral service at end of term
• My locker with the sand filled toys
• Cycling to school - past the girls
• Lift to school with The Rusconis
• Comic with Tony
• Coming first in class
• Shakespeare at Maynardville

Books & Comics

• Reading in class: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Hobbit, The Pearl
• Famous Five, Secret 7
• Wilbur Smith
• Tintin
• Asterix
• Richie Rich, Archie

Extramural activities

• Maynardville for Shakespeare
• Squash on a Fri
• Descant in Choir
• Xmas carol singing on TV
• Choir competition (mousetrap)
• Vista Nova Fri movies 
• St Georges end of term movies
• Baine's Kloof in Std 2
• School camp (saw sparrow-hawk)
• Leadership camp in Baine's Kloof (matric)

Sport

• Bath after rugby
• High jump and long jump double win
• Getting table tennis table
• Scoring rugby try
• PE Rugby and oceanarium show
• Sports days
• 5 km run on Table Mountain road

Final year

• Sleeping on the patio, swimming before school
• Studying in the dining room with the clock
• The hut where we all hung out
• My popularity because of pharoah role in Joseph
• My sense of humour coming out, studying jokes
• 2 Matric dances with Jane
• Matric dance with Wendy
• Mock tests
• Matric A - Luiperd's Kloof
• A for Afrikaans (more than Tony)

Plays

• Oliver
• Tom Sawyer
• Hijack play
• Joseph
• The Others (on other side of the wall)
• Joseph

Hobbies

• Penny Red (Mike)
• Playing Arcade Game at shop
• Minolta cameras (including Minolta 9000)
• Playing Commodore 64 games (Commando, Beach Head, Olympics, Pole Position)
• Paddle ski
• Stamp collecting
• Telescope for birding
• Train-set in outside room
• Birding
• Computer programming (game)

Home

• Epworth Road - 39 Steps and staying over with Gran and Gramps
• Ian Livingston and caramel ice-cream
• Sea Point swimming pool - and jumping from high board
• Sleeping on the patio, swimming before school
• Swimming in Midway pool (Marco Polo, machine gun, lie on paving)
• Saturday night - Magnum
• School stationery at the start of the term
• Walking the park with Tina and Meg
• Trainset
• Swimming in our pool (Marco Polo, machine gun, lie on paving)
• Throwing the ball for Meg & Tina
• Watching x-rated movies (especially the first)
• Action Men

Birding

• 1st trip with Tony to Rietvlei
• Osprey over Rietvlei
• Black-shouldered kites on The Common
• Ground woodpecker at Betties Bay
• Gymnogene (Okovango trip)
• Rondevlei, especially Malachite Kingfisher, Little Bittern, Marsh Harrier
• Black River near school
• Swellendam birding weekend
• Club presentations
• Uilenskraal (terns, fish eagle, pied kingfisher)
• Seeing coucal for first time
• Okovango  (56 new birds)
• Kruger with Colin

Holidays and trips

• Ceres holiday
• Midmar Dam, Drakensberg with family
• Okovango, Chobe, Victoria Falls
• Graaf Reinet with Juf Nel
• Orange River with dad
• Kruger with Colin (leopard, bush-babies)

Spiritual

• Descant in Choir
• Aware of being aware

Movies