RUGBY TEAM ON THE ROAD OCEAN-GOING POSTCARDS A MILE IN THE RIVER
The St Andrew’s College first rugby squad is also in Cape Town for the Bishops Diocesan College Rugby Festival where they are playing Wynberg Boys’ High today and home team Bishops on Saturday. Bishops celebrates its 175th anniversary this year.
Then St Andrew’s is off on another long journey, this time for the St Stithian’s College Easter Rugby Festival, where the Makhanda team is due to play the host school St Stithian’s and Michaelhouse College.
The Norwegian Dawn and Azamara Pursuit are among the cruise liners that have visited these shores in recent weeks.
This, they say, is cruising season, and these mammoth passenger-carrying vessels are all around the SA coastline visiting ports.
Reminds this columnist of his years as a young teenager living in Cape Town in the late 1950s and early 1960s when he would ride his bike, with friend Joshua, from the Atlantic seaboard suburb of Milnerton to the Foreshore near the docks.
Once there we would seek out shipping company offices in the high-rise buildings, and there were many such offices and buildings in that area.
We enquired whether the companies had postcards depicting their cargo and passenger ships in full colour.
We ‘scored big-time’ on our visits and boasted quite a collection!
Those were the days of the Union Castle Line.
Wonder if present-day shipping companies still dish out postcards.
The Bushman’s River Mile is an annual swimming event held for the pupils of DSG, St Andrew’s College and St Andrew’s Prep on the Sunshine Coast.
The event caters for swimmers at various levels.
St Andrew’s College pupil Adam Nurse emerged triumphant overall in the senior category in 16 minutes 18 seconds, with Nick Franklin second and Daniel Arnold third.
The junior race, covering half-a-mile, saw St Andrews’ James Barber claiming top spot in 8 min 28 sec, trailed closely by Chris Coltham in second place and Jacques Prudhon third.
REMEMBER THE DAYS?
When there was such a proliferation of shows on the Fringe at the National Arts Festival that almost every nook and cranny in the then Grahamstown became a festival venue, whether it was a warehouse, mechanical workshop or motor dealership showroom.
The writer remembers many years ago attending a Cliff Richard and the Shadows tribute concert in a warehouse in Queen Street.
Then there was a rock ‘n roll musical show presented by Duck Chowles and his highly-acclaimed band in a motor dealership in Bertram Street.
But perhaps the most original festival venue came in the form of a locomotive workshop and stores area at the Grahamstown Railway Station, not too far from the platform, also for a music concert.
That was interesting!
What was your quaintest, strangest or most unusual National Arts Festival venue?