Father Ken Powrie

I have opened the box of Home Evening Minute Books.

Our Family started "Family Hour" in January 1955.

We sometimes read together and always played something together: Jigsaw, Ludo, Tiddlywinks, Hunt the Thimble, Snap, Dominoes, Hunt the Button, Pick up Sticks, Skittles, Happy Families, Blind Man's Buff, Charades, I Spy, Forfeits, Hide and Seek, Rummy, Riddles, Jokes, Chinese Checkers, Carpet Bowls, Push-a-penny, Twenty Questions, Monopoly.

We frequently went for drives together: Zoo Lake, Broken Down House, Northcliff, Florida Lake, Little Falls, Johannesburg to see Christmas Lights, Planatarium, Brixton Hill, Airport.

We read stories and books and magazines. The news of the day was discussed and cuttings pasted into the Home Evening Minute Book:
"World's End: Millions Pray and Some Panic" February 1962
"Spaceman Lands Safely" February 21st 1962
"Heavy Falls from Karoo to Transvaal" Snow August 1962
"It's a White August" 1962
"Johannesburg Lights Up" Johannesburg 80 yrs old September 1964
"Sir Winston - Greatest Man of our Time" January 1965
"Seeking for Oil - by Helicopter" May 1965
"Space Twins' Health Delights American Doctors" June 1965
"Space Walk - First Picture" June 1965
"New Red bid to regain lead" June 1965

We had visitors with us: Walter and Karin Randall, Scott and Lou Ciel Taggart, Alma Schroeder, Elders Read and Tumbrill, Great Aunt Joyce, Mary Dryden Hart, Maudie (our servant), Alan Bibb, Brother Roberts, Glynis McTavish, Gloria and John Ashton, Elsie and David Viljoen, Nico Louw, Nicholas Irvine, Cheryl Bergin, Patrick McNally, Jean, Stephany, Stephen and "Fearless" Foster, Elders Lamb and Benincosa, Mrs, Ingrid and Monica Schutte, Andre P Nel, Andre Naude, Wendy and Roy Jackson, Elders Ward and Traveller.

We sang and learnt new (to us) hymns, We learnt "I am a Child of God" when it first came out. We played records and listened to certain radio programmes. We saw films together.

Rain or shine, some absent or not, we held Family Hour/Family Period together.

Thanks Mom and Dad.