Our next craze was gambling with marbles. We had no marbles made of glass then. We gathered lime stone pieces from Casamata and polished them round, into marbles. We drew a circle on the ground, placed marbles inside, one or two or three each bettor, then would fling our remaining marble with our thumb until […]
1994 Memoir – 27. Bangued Memories – Ping Pong & Pool
PING-PONG We converted our dining table into a ping-pong table by placing a piece of wood in the middle for a net and used paddles home-made out of wooden boxes. Father played with us. He was good. Mother was not interested, saying that she would rather spend her time beating up the laundry with her […]