Gosh David, I had forgotten about the wooden propellers. I watched them being made in the small workshop near the tuck shop by one of the gardeners. We used to queue to get our sweet ration, alphabetically or reverse alphabetically. I collected cigarette cards of footballers and chocolates with plastic toys in them. The sweets were all laid out and priced.
The stones from the unripe peaches were used for jacks and I got tummy ache by eating unripe and unwashed guavas. There was a mulberry bush somewhere as well.
Pulling dinkies along by string and constructing dams during the rainy season in the gulley by the road bridge, near the southwestern end of the classrooms. And in the climbing frame where Luigi broke his elbow and the swings from where we used to see how far we could jump.
The times table drills and tests.
The roller skating on the paths through the woods pulled by our elastic 'S' hook belts.
Can anyone remember the kite flying? Must have been '62 or '63.
Planting the fir trees for Prince Edward's birth.
Taking Paladrine(?) anti malaria tablets at lunchtime.
Rob Hill, Stanley House, '59-'63
