Greetings from Ireland

4 July 2008

Friday


Dear family and friends

Just as we thought that summer has disappeared altogether ..the sun came back today after 4 days of rain and wind. In short we had a glorious day!!!...but the weather man says that the next few days are going to be very unstable…it sounds more like angina to me than bad weather!

On Monday we visited our favourite garden centre in Abbeylara and got some rambling roses for the new wall! Far behind our pine wind breaker on the north side we discovered a very lovely sweet smelling pink rose and that was transplanted this morning but I am afraid that the shock was severe and all the roses heads are hanging…the leafs looks fine though ..we hope that there will be a revival soon…

We also have a Poplar specie in the middle of the garden of whom the top branches were all dead well almost all and only here and there was a sprig. That was cut down to half the tree and it loved it… everywhere little branches made their appearance since.

5 July

Another day….the rain came pelting down all morning and then suddenly the heaven exposed blue skies and beautiful sunshine…but that was too late and we started a fire today..the house does not generate any heat and it becomes colder and colder..until you feel the chill in your bone ..but now we have to take off our jumpers… the house has got its warmth back…

We rose bush of yesterday seemed to have survived - the heads of flowers that hung were cut off and the ones left seemed to lift their little heads…

The doom and gloom spoken about on all our news channels are very depressing…..it seems to be everywhere the same..except in the poorest of the poor countries there it makes no difference….they have nothing to loose but the Irish lived the lives of very prosperous people and far above their means…and unfortunately the poor man suffers more and they, the affluent , just buy their cigarettes across the border..

I am working this weekend and will not be able to go to church but will be there in spirit….one of our youngest members little Emma 2 yrs old was diagnosed with Type II diabetes and is now on Insulin in the paediatric unit…the mother noticed that she drank a lot more than the other children on Monday and she passed a lot of urine for such a little one and took her to the outpatients where the child was admitted ….some Dr told the parents that the child has got an underlying virus infection and that has caused the diabetes????? He could not tell them which virus though…terrible things for them to cope with. Florrie our previous organist is still fighting valiantly against her bone-marrow cancer ..we gave up all hope there 6-7 weeks ago and now she is going strong again!
Now to all family members…on the 23 July our oldest living family members will be 100jrs old and I sincerely hope that those who can will make an effort to contact either tant Poppie’s sons or the nursing home she is in.
Adelbert, Werner of Leopold …..their email addresses are as follows
werhes@mweb.co.za (Werner)
adelbertscholtz@hotmail.com
leoscholtz@yahoo.com

Haya and Hessie are getting older today and tomorrow …
Happy many returns of this day and God’s richest blessings we pray for you!!!

I greet and wave goodbye
Take care and drive safely

Barry + Christina(Stien…etc)