Of course! A white sheet off the bed stuck to the wall.
And whats more I can lay in bed and watch the game on the ceiling
When I was in South Africa TV was only just starting there. There were no VHR recorders etc, so what we did was hire a projector, spools of film and a loudspeaker - bit like an ancient version of Blockbuster videos. We didn't need a screen as most house interiors were white because of the intense heat in that country. The walls made a perfect screen. There being very little telly, the social life was many notches up on what it is like over here. We'd take it in turns to host a film with usually a braiivleis (braai for short) which was a charcoal/wood barbeque and the best version was an oil drum cut in two (perforated at the bottom), which gave a huge cooking area when a grill was placed over each half.
If the embers started to flame the guys, who usually did the cooking (the girls would prepare salads etc), would douse the flames by pouring beer from their cans, usually Castle, Lion or Hansa, which was a light lager. We usually didn't drink good wine at a braai although SA had some fabulous stuff at very affordable prices; but the braai wine of choice was Carafino that came with a choice of red, white or rose in 3 litre bottles.
As the cost of living was so cheap there, the meat was usually good steaks, prime chops etc etc but in those days you had to marinate the meat yourself, usually done the day before to produce some incredible flavours. Sausages were usually the South African boerevors (vors for short), which had to be 90% meat that could be beef, lamb or pork or a mixture of any of them well spiced with herbs etc. Every butcher made their own version that usually came in a thick coil - you'd get one to the kilo.
Of course there was fabulous fruit in abundance and I remember the first avocado I ever ate was about the size of a mini rugby ball!
Sea food was also incredible. What we call a king prawn over here would be a small shrimp over there as the usual length was about 3 to 4 inches. And they came MUCH bigger!! The funny thing was that practically every dog in the district would turn up for a braai. They'd sit patiently at a respectful distance and wait for titbits to be thrown their way. There was never any fighting between them either because they came to learn that there was plenty for all. They were eating steaks, chops and vors etc just like us, so they were well happy.
Then there were the drive-ins, more of which later but the first one I ever saw was Mr Majestyk starring Charles Bronson along with another "A" feature that I can't remember. At the drive in you'd get movies that had been in the main cinemas (huge at the time in SA cos of little/no telly) a week or so after they'd finished their run and you always got TWO main features,
Just to finish, I remember that I used to catch MOTD in the cinema a few days after the games were played. There'd be a row of TV screens down the side of the cinema but nothing on the big screen. Better than nothing though. Happy days when you'd socialise with your friends and neigbours at least 3 or 4 times a week. I've always missed that here.
