Then and now!

2010
Here we all are, at our Class get-together at Eketahuna Saturday 17 April 2010.

Max, Elwyn, Trevor, Esmee
Glennys, Janice, Yvonne


1956

Schooldays, Std 4 in 1956 at Eketahuna School.

Saturday night was great fun! Glennys and I arrived at Eketahuna bright and early. We walked down to the school, and looked around, then around the street where Glennys lived, she lived opposite Esmee in Anderson Street, Elwyn used to live just around the corner in Alfredton Road, as does Janice nowadays. Glennys has an excellent memory, so was able to say who lived where, and had lots of stories to tell. Esmee and Ian arrived. It was such a mild night we all walked down to the Eketahuna Club. There were 10 of us in our class party, 7 of our class, and 3 partners. It was super meeting up with Max and Trevor and their wives. The Club had advertised Roast meals to their members for the evening. The food was fantastic, really amazing for $20. We were just talking about our childhood puddings, bread pudding etc, and lo and behold that was one of the puddings.(Made with hot cross buns... delicious.) We had lot of laughs reminiscing and fun trying to work out who was who in the photos. Such fun!
Over coffee at Athol's before bed we sat around and Esmee read our report about our Standard 6 trip to Christchurch! (Glennys, Nancy Olivant, Esmee and I were in this special class... with pupils down to Std 3, it was like a country school, we were in a Prefab far from the madding crowd.) Anyway, we marveled at the wonderful writing all the class had displayed in recounting our ventures. One of the highlights was visiting the Sanitarium factory, so it was very fitting that we had weetbix for Sunday brekkie. Kind of yuk (I hate it!) but I did it in remembrance!