Looking at the Baby Boomer Headquarters Website I see they are producing a Baby Boomer
Gift basket for Christmas.
Of course it is the American version, but we would probably conjure up our own
Zimbabwe Baby Boomer gift basket and just imagine" what everything would be like as
sure as nuts we could never find the articles anywhere let alone afford to buy them. BUT
WE CAN DREAM !
But My Baby Boomer Christmas Hamper would contain the following :
A genuine, hand-crafted Tie-dyed T-shirt (extra-large)
A yo yo
A frisbee
A copy of Ritchie Rich or L'il Dot Comic
An old old copy of the film" Tarzan and Jane" with a private showing to Bulawayo baby
Boomers only in the Palace Cinema on a Saturday Morning - price one and thrupence !!
An old copy of "The Saint" with Roger Moore,
A copy of Cliff Richard's "Summer Holiday" C.D.
A copy of a CD by the Bulawayo Group "Sapphires"
Books of Just William and The Hardy Boys.
A CD of our favourite TV programmes - Bonanza, Gunsmoke,
Magnum, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Untouchables, The Third Man, Dr Kildare, and
Rawhide
A bag of liquorice straps, yellow marshmallow bananas and pink marshmallow fish.
A showing of The Texan Rock Bank Competition at the Trade Fair Amphitheatre where The
Zoo, The Tallboys, the Short Circuit Guavas , The Silhouettes, Otis Waygood, Four Jacks
and a Jill, and the Ramblers, would be featuring !
A voucher for coffee at the "Coffee Pot" in Kirrie Buildings or the Hub in the Carlton
centre.
Tickets to a dance at the Jewish Guild hall, including a conducted tour of climbing in
through the toilet window to see Otis Waygood, and the Zipper brothers - Ivor
Rubenstein, Benny Millar and Lea Sagar.
Tickets to a session at either St Margaret's Church hall in Famona or a scene at St Johns
Church - Harker Hall or St Mary's Hall at the Catholic Cathedral with the bands and songs
of yesteryear.
All girls to wear dresses with a waist and a belt and yards and yards of stiff net petticoats
underneath !!
What are your favourite "Baby Boomer" memories for our Boomer Christmas Hamper ?
e mail magskriel@mac. com
DAVID CALDER - DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO SHARON, SIMON AND ANDREW FROM THE
BOARD AND STAFF OF GIRLS' COLLEGE
I was distressed in your Bulawayo Mirror edition 264 to see a note on the passing of Ivan
Peribonis with whom I shared the same class at Hamilton in the late 60's. I have often
wondered what had become of him. The message would appear to have been posted by
Charlie Stanbury who was also in the same class.
As I would like to pass the condolences of myself and a handful of Ivan's old classmates to
the family, I was hoping you could give me a contact telephone number or e-mail address
for Charles Stanbury?
Although the news in the Bulawayo Mirror is invariably rather disturbing, it is wonderful
being able to keep up with events in my home town. The resilience of Bulawayans is just
amazing! Please continue to produce this invaluable news lifeline for those of us all,
especially those of us who are in "exile".
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be
changed. --Tom Clancy
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always
won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but
in the end they always fall, always.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible
power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in
the face of discouragement.
-Napoleon Hill-
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always
won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but
in the end they always fall, always.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or
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-- Sir Winston Churchill
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