Maandagaand 4 Jan ‘10
hierdie briefie het nie uitgegaan nie en ek probeer weer!
Goeie naand/dag allemaal!
Hoop van harte dat julle almal veilig tuis is en die wat nog moet reis met welslae na huis sal vaar!
Hier bibber ons nog steeds , mensig maar dit was koud, is koud en gaan nog koud bly!
Die sneeu van 2 weke gelede het nog nie alles gesmelt nie en die -8 temperature veroorsaak dat alles oor vries en baie gevaarlik is!
Gerlof en Sandra veels geluk met die heerlike nuus van ‘Oupa/Ouma’skap!
Ook bly dat julle na alles tog wel weggekom het en weer veilig tuis is!
Weet niks van niemand af nie. Hester se pos komterug en die ander het omtrent almal van die aarde afgeval wat my betref!
Nine ,ek wonder so baie of jy ooit ‘n brief van my kry of lees, ek vra vrae maar kry nooit ‘n antwoord nie, hoe gaan dit met jou?
Ons het baie rustig verkeer gedurende die feesgety vanwee die erge weersomstandighede! Dit is baie gevaarlik om hier sonder die regte wiele en gereedskap die gladde paaie aantepak!
Die ganse is pragtig, hulle is groot en oulik en hou van geselskap!
Die res van Ierland se voёls woon in ons agterplaas en die rotte familie is sekerlik uitgedelg na hulle spesiale gekonsentreerde rotkos gekry het.
Hulle moes hulle knuppeldik geёet het en toe verkluim het!
Die vuur brand die hele dag en ons loop soms buite ‘n draai vir bloed sirkulasie kom totaal verkluimd terug in die huis,ten spyte van dik jasse, maar anders beweeg ons maar min, Speel baie scrabble ,lees en kyk na die boksie o ja brei ook!!
Ek sien die GP môre en sal hoor wat die resultaat van die laaste x-strale was en hoor of ek werk toe sal kan gaan of moet wag om die sjirurg te sien!
In hierdie land wat daar meer water is as breins sit ons toe sonder water vir 2 dae want die waterpype het gebars en die reservoir leeggeloop! Hahaha! Gelukkig is alles nou herstel en ons kan weer stort!
Die is werklik net ‘n kort briefie en ek hoop van harte dat jul almal die feesgety geniet het, die samesyn van familie en vriende!
Mag dit reen waar dit droog is, mag al die oeste van die lande goed wees!
Wees altyd versigitg en sluit die deure!
Baie groete aan almal.
Bibberende groete vanuit Cranleymore!
Die Dunnes
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Winter in Ireland
9 January ‘10
Good day to all, family and friends!
It started to snow with us for the so many-eth time since 21 of December and it has also melted as many times as well and with temperatures now falling to -10 and -12 we are experiencing the coldest spell in 50 years. We feel for our neighbours in England and Scotland where temperatures dropped to -21!!!!! We are not at all equipped to cope with weather extremes like this and there is not enough salt or grit to cover the roads and the cars do not have the correct tyres and even the 4x4’s are struggling to cope!
In the mean time the southern hemisphere are warm and praying for rain is some districts! I must say I do not mind the cold, snow and even the ice, as long as it is dry! The problems starts when it is wet and cold, I started to suffer from cold feet here in my senior years and especially the left foot seems to be frozen all the time so I sit with a hot water bottle between my feet most of the day. At night my electric blanket warms up the bed, and then get switched off when we get in!
The fire gets an enormous big lump of wood on it when we go to bed and that burns slowly to early morning and Barry can start the fire with the ambers from yesterday!
I am still at home and I got the feeling that the hospital is glad I am not there as work has not picked up yet and the night staff have to do shifts in the old age home and I really do not feel up to it yet!
I am to see the surgeon on Tuesday and will know then where I stand in relation to Lap Coli (key hole surgery) soon or in the future. Every now and then I get a reminder that something is not kosher and hope to get through the day or night without having to go back to hospital A&E.
The 1st Minister in Northern Ireland‘s wife has brought the family is disrepute and had a love affair with a 19yr old. She lost the plot that is for sure! What is so tragic is that every news paper and every TV station takes great delight in highlighting every little detail of the affair.
Our own little island are still in the red and will be for some time as they keep on borrowing money and when they will be able to pay it back , no one knows!
Patrick(Finbarr) and Amanda are snowed in and have not been going about as the roads are too dangerous.
He started his own company ‘consulting’ “Brand Experiences Ltd” and can work from home which helps tremendously. Amanda‘s boss sends the driver to pick her up with a 4x4, it is such a worry otherwise. They are both very well and we can’t wait for our grand child to be born.
Birthday wishes to Corli who is 1 year old today as well as to Mari-Janke who has her birthday on the 16th. I have no other birthdays in my book and if I miss one please enjoy in the good wishes for the best year ever!
Thank you to all who so wonderfully keep in touch. It is heart-rending and lovely to know that you are all well. Thank you for all the lovely photos via email and per post. For the reading matter and news! Hope sincerely that we will see some pictures of the wedding that took place on 18th Dec.
I would love to know what all the young people are studying at university as the youngest of that group of grand children are now all out of school. I would like to know the end exams went. The news says that only 60% of matriculants passed. Congratulations to Retha with her matric student’s results, something to celebrate in the educational climate the country finds itself!
Hope that the young Doctor working in Melbourne will give report of his progress and the younger brother now in Brisbane by himself!
How is the young man in Hoedspruit? There are so many of you that I cannot keep track. Hessie& Attie and their 2 young women, Oubaas and Gerda with their 2, Gerlof with their children all out of the house as well. Kathleen and Tim, and all her experiences working in SA!
The geese are now like children, they run towards us when we enter the lower field waiting for a treat, usually a bit of bread. They love company but stay indoors when it is so cold. Barry has to take water from the house for them as all the water pipes are continually frozen
The wild bird population is large with visitors from Scandinavia, and the Arctic. It is fascinating to watch them and how they have a pecking order, colour changes in the winter and definite characteristics.
We have a visiting preacher from Kilkenny tomorrow and I was left to choose the Hymns and have kept it real reformed! Still the best day of the week!
I will greet you with warmth, remember to lock the doors, watch every step you take, drive safely! May it rain where it is dry and may every crop on the lands be fruitful and market prices good!
Love to hear from you all
The Dunnes in a snow covered Cranleymore!
Good day to all, family and friends!
It started to snow with us for the so many-eth time since 21 of December and it has also melted as many times as well and with temperatures now falling to -10 and -12 we are experiencing the coldest spell in 50 years. We feel for our neighbours in England and Scotland where temperatures dropped to -21!!!!! We are not at all equipped to cope with weather extremes like this and there is not enough salt or grit to cover the roads and the cars do not have the correct tyres and even the 4x4’s are struggling to cope!
In the mean time the southern hemisphere are warm and praying for rain is some districts! I must say I do not mind the cold, snow and even the ice, as long as it is dry! The problems starts when it is wet and cold, I started to suffer from cold feet here in my senior years and especially the left foot seems to be frozen all the time so I sit with a hot water bottle between my feet most of the day. At night my electric blanket warms up the bed, and then get switched off when we get in!
The fire gets an enormous big lump of wood on it when we go to bed and that burns slowly to early morning and Barry can start the fire with the ambers from yesterday!
I am still at home and I got the feeling that the hospital is glad I am not there as work has not picked up yet and the night staff have to do shifts in the old age home and I really do not feel up to it yet!
I am to see the surgeon on Tuesday and will know then where I stand in relation to Lap Coli (key hole surgery) soon or in the future. Every now and then I get a reminder that something is not kosher and hope to get through the day or night without having to go back to hospital A&E.
The 1st Minister in Northern Ireland‘s wife has brought the family is disrepute and had a love affair with a 19yr old. She lost the plot that is for sure! What is so tragic is that every news paper and every TV station takes great delight in highlighting every little detail of the affair.
Our own little island are still in the red and will be for some time as they keep on borrowing money and when they will be able to pay it back , no one knows!
Patrick(Finbarr) and Amanda are snowed in and have not been going about as the roads are too dangerous.
He started his own company ‘consulting’ “Brand Experiences Ltd” and can work from home which helps tremendously. Amanda‘s boss sends the driver to pick her up with a 4x4, it is such a worry otherwise. They are both very well and we can’t wait for our grand child to be born.
Birthday wishes to Corli who is 1 year old today as well as to Mari-Janke who has her birthday on the 16th. I have no other birthdays in my book and if I miss one please enjoy in the good wishes for the best year ever!
Thank you to all who so wonderfully keep in touch. It is heart-rending and lovely to know that you are all well. Thank you for all the lovely photos via email and per post. For the reading matter and news! Hope sincerely that we will see some pictures of the wedding that took place on 18th Dec.
I would love to know what all the young people are studying at university as the youngest of that group of grand children are now all out of school. I would like to know the end exams went. The news says that only 60% of matriculants passed. Congratulations to Retha with her matric student’s results, something to celebrate in the educational climate the country finds itself!
Hope that the young Doctor working in Melbourne will give report of his progress and the younger brother now in Brisbane by himself!
How is the young man in Hoedspruit? There are so many of you that I cannot keep track. Hessie& Attie and their 2 young women, Oubaas and Gerda with their 2, Gerlof with their children all out of the house as well. Kathleen and Tim, and all her experiences working in SA!
The geese are now like children, they run towards us when we enter the lower field waiting for a treat, usually a bit of bread. They love company but stay indoors when it is so cold. Barry has to take water from the house for them as all the water pipes are continually frozen
The wild bird population is large with visitors from Scandinavia, and the Arctic. It is fascinating to watch them and how they have a pecking order, colour changes in the winter and definite characteristics.
We have a visiting preacher from Kilkenny tomorrow and I was left to choose the Hymns and have kept it real reformed! Still the best day of the week!
I will greet you with warmth, remember to lock the doors, watch every step you take, drive safely! May it rain where it is dry and may every crop on the lands be fruitful and market prices good!
Love to hear from you all
The Dunnes in a snow covered Cranleymore!
Greetings from a melting Ireland
16 Januarie 2010
Goeie dag aan almal, familie en vriende,
Die sneeu het gesmelt, die temperatuur het gestyg ,gister was dit 11 grade teen 2nm, ongelooflik na ‘n maand van vriesende omstandighede. Gister het die wind met mening gewaai en dit het gereёn asof die aarde hier in Ierland nie ‘n druppel water gesien het vir maande nie. Oral staan die lande onder water en dele van die kanale en mere is nog steeds geys! Ons kla nie want elke gogga en virus moes vrek in die gure omstandighede!
Die koue het ook groot ellendes meegebring, gebarste water pype en baie plekke sit sonder water of net sekere tye van die dag water in die krane! Dublin is sleg getref !
‘n Man wat op pad was na seun in Dublin van die suide het bleikbaar gegly voor sy huis en niemand het geweet nie en hy is dood onder ‘n kombers van sneeu! Na 10 dae het die bure begin bekommerd raak en toe die Garda daar opdaag sien hulle ‘n hand vanonder die sneeu uitsteek! OOk die verskriklike aardbewing in Haiti, wat is ons tog bevoorregt om niks tekort te hê nie, die armoede en ellende van squatter woonbuurte is soveel meer as in beter bedeelde dele!
Daar is so baie werk wat nou op my wag in die tuin, al die verwoeste blommetjies moes geknyp word al die dooie blare weggesny word en met die lang koue spel het die groei van die affodille en tulpe natuurlik tot stilstand gekom en begin nou eers weer beweeg! Die 1st Feb is snoei dag en daardie week sal ek regtig my deel moet bydra!
Die ganse is nog steeds ‘n groot plesier. Hulle is so vet soos ‘n gans wat reg is vir ‘n fees en sal, noudat die gras weer sigbaar is op diёet geplaas moet word want anders is hulle te swaar vir hulle pote. Hulle het hul eie program 12middag gaan hulle rus tot 2nm en dan vroetel hulle rond tot bedtyd. Hulle gesels en flap die vlerke en hardloop agter Barry aan!
Die kleiner voёl gemeenskap het gister begin sing, die robin sit hoog in die boom en het seker ‘n uur lank aanmekaar gesing! Dit was so pragtig!.ons het verskeie vreemde voёls opgemerk. Die rotte het nooit weer hul verskyning gemaak nie ,dus neem ons aan dat hulle daarmee heen is!
My besoek aan die ‘sjirurg’ was ‘n fiasco.
Dit was my eerste keer wat ek nou werklik met die ongeorganiseerde Hospitaal dienste van hierdie land deurmekaar was. Ek moes ‘n uur wag en toe ek die spreek kamer instap is daar geen sjirurg nie maar ‘n vreemde dokter van Nigerieё. Hy het geen benul gehad wie en wat ek is nie en wat ek daar soek nie. Na ‘n rukkie het hy wel deeglik besef dat ek op die punt staan van ontplof en het probeer verskoning maak en verduidelik dat hy net waarnemend is en dat die ander Dr nog in die buiteland is en hy sal dadelik gaan uitvind of ek bespreek is vir sjirurgie.
Om ‘n lang storie kort temaak ek was nêrens in die boek gemeld nie en moet weer volgende week terug gaan in die hoop om die regte sjirurg te sien.
My eie arme GP het moeite gehad om my te kalmeer maar het uiteindelik my so ver gekry dat ek nou volgende week die man sal sien met ‘n brief wat hy gedikteer het in my teenwoordigheid en hopelik ek sal dan iets meer weet!
Ek is dus nog steeds op” siek verlof “wat lank nie meer siek verlof is nie maar net lui lekker lewe by die huis!
Ek word betaal maar ‘minimum wages’ en dit word nou dringend dat ek na normal terug keer!
Dit was heerlik om briefies van almal te ontvang soos julle tuis kom na jul besoeke aan die ‘Heimat’ daar is egter nog heel party uitstaande en die wat in SA woon word hierby ingesluit!. Leopold se brief van Nuwe Jaar in Delft was ‘n belewenis! Hier het alles gelukkig doodstil verby gegaan!
Môre is soos altyd die beste dag van my week en die predikant het pragtige Psalme en Gesange gekies en ons drink ook tee môre ,dus heerlike samesyn!
Verjaarsdae is vandag MarieJanke en ek hoop dat dit vir haar ‘n pragtige dag sal wees en die jaar ‘n groot sukses. Dorothy in Johannesburg verjaar môre en ek hoop en bid dat sy ook ‘n jaar vol seёninge sal beleef!
Heerlik om weer van Joy te hoor in Brisbane.
Ek groet vanuit Cranleymore met die hoop dat almal veilig tuis sal kom, dat dit sal reёn waar dit droog is, dat die damme vol sal loop, dat die oeste op die lande goeie pryse sal kry en dat alle ‘live stock’ vet en gesond is!
Dat die wat nuwe uitdagings aanvaar dit sal deurvoer en sukses sal hê ook die wat nou in die noordelike halfrond voor eksamens staan ,dat dit goed sal gaan!
Die ‘nuwe ‘dokter in PMB haar werk sal geniet so-ook die jongman in Melbourne!Miskien kan Haya my Anneke se epos adres stuur dan sit ek haar op die poslys!
Wees altyd versigtig, sluit die deure, neem niks as van selfsprekend aan nie! Trap versigtig! Bly gesond!
Die Dunnes
Goeie dag aan almal, familie en vriende,
Die sneeu het gesmelt, die temperatuur het gestyg ,gister was dit 11 grade teen 2nm, ongelooflik na ‘n maand van vriesende omstandighede. Gister het die wind met mening gewaai en dit het gereёn asof die aarde hier in Ierland nie ‘n druppel water gesien het vir maande nie. Oral staan die lande onder water en dele van die kanale en mere is nog steeds geys! Ons kla nie want elke gogga en virus moes vrek in die gure omstandighede!
Die koue het ook groot ellendes meegebring, gebarste water pype en baie plekke sit sonder water of net sekere tye van die dag water in die krane! Dublin is sleg getref !
‘n Man wat op pad was na seun in Dublin van die suide het bleikbaar gegly voor sy huis en niemand het geweet nie en hy is dood onder ‘n kombers van sneeu! Na 10 dae het die bure begin bekommerd raak en toe die Garda daar opdaag sien hulle ‘n hand vanonder die sneeu uitsteek! OOk die verskriklike aardbewing in Haiti, wat is ons tog bevoorregt om niks tekort te hê nie, die armoede en ellende van squatter woonbuurte is soveel meer as in beter bedeelde dele!
Daar is so baie werk wat nou op my wag in die tuin, al die verwoeste blommetjies moes geknyp word al die dooie blare weggesny word en met die lang koue spel het die groei van die affodille en tulpe natuurlik tot stilstand gekom en begin nou eers weer beweeg! Die 1st Feb is snoei dag en daardie week sal ek regtig my deel moet bydra!
Die ganse is nog steeds ‘n groot plesier. Hulle is so vet soos ‘n gans wat reg is vir ‘n fees en sal, noudat die gras weer sigbaar is op diёet geplaas moet word want anders is hulle te swaar vir hulle pote. Hulle het hul eie program 12middag gaan hulle rus tot 2nm en dan vroetel hulle rond tot bedtyd. Hulle gesels en flap die vlerke en hardloop agter Barry aan!
Die kleiner voёl gemeenskap het gister begin sing, die robin sit hoog in die boom en het seker ‘n uur lank aanmekaar gesing! Dit was so pragtig!.ons het verskeie vreemde voёls opgemerk. Die rotte het nooit weer hul verskyning gemaak nie ,dus neem ons aan dat hulle daarmee heen is!
My besoek aan die ‘sjirurg’ was ‘n fiasco.
Dit was my eerste keer wat ek nou werklik met die ongeorganiseerde Hospitaal dienste van hierdie land deurmekaar was. Ek moes ‘n uur wag en toe ek die spreek kamer instap is daar geen sjirurg nie maar ‘n vreemde dokter van Nigerieё. Hy het geen benul gehad wie en wat ek is nie en wat ek daar soek nie. Na ‘n rukkie het hy wel deeglik besef dat ek op die punt staan van ontplof en het probeer verskoning maak en verduidelik dat hy net waarnemend is en dat die ander Dr nog in die buiteland is en hy sal dadelik gaan uitvind of ek bespreek is vir sjirurgie.
Om ‘n lang storie kort temaak ek was nêrens in die boek gemeld nie en moet weer volgende week terug gaan in die hoop om die regte sjirurg te sien.
My eie arme GP het moeite gehad om my te kalmeer maar het uiteindelik my so ver gekry dat ek nou volgende week die man sal sien met ‘n brief wat hy gedikteer het in my teenwoordigheid en hopelik ek sal dan iets meer weet!
Ek is dus nog steeds op” siek verlof “wat lank nie meer siek verlof is nie maar net lui lekker lewe by die huis!
Ek word betaal maar ‘minimum wages’ en dit word nou dringend dat ek na normal terug keer!
Dit was heerlik om briefies van almal te ontvang soos julle tuis kom na jul besoeke aan die ‘Heimat’ daar is egter nog heel party uitstaande en die wat in SA woon word hierby ingesluit!. Leopold se brief van Nuwe Jaar in Delft was ‘n belewenis! Hier het alles gelukkig doodstil verby gegaan!
Môre is soos altyd die beste dag van my week en die predikant het pragtige Psalme en Gesange gekies en ons drink ook tee môre ,dus heerlike samesyn!
Verjaarsdae is vandag MarieJanke en ek hoop dat dit vir haar ‘n pragtige dag sal wees en die jaar ‘n groot sukses. Dorothy in Johannesburg verjaar môre en ek hoop en bid dat sy ook ‘n jaar vol seёninge sal beleef!
Heerlik om weer van Joy te hoor in Brisbane.
Ek groet vanuit Cranleymore met die hoop dat almal veilig tuis sal kom, dat dit sal reёn waar dit droog is, dat die damme vol sal loop, dat die oeste op die lande goeie pryse sal kry en dat alle ‘live stock’ vet en gesond is!
Dat die wat nuwe uitdagings aanvaar dit sal deurvoer en sukses sal hê ook die wat nou in die noordelike halfrond voor eksamens staan ,dat dit goed sal gaan!
Die ‘nuwe ‘dokter in PMB haar werk sal geniet so-ook die jongman in Melbourne!Miskien kan Haya my Anneke se epos adres stuur dan sit ek haar op die poslys!
Wees altyd versigtig, sluit die deure, neem niks as van selfsprekend aan nie! Trap versigtig! Bly gesond!
Die Dunnes
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