Saturday, November 20, 2010

Winter greetings form Ireland

Saturday 20 Nov’10

Good day to all, family and friends!



Congratulations to Jaco and Stenelle who are getting married tomorrow!!! God’s riches blessing we pray upon you!

Happy birthday to the twins Paul and Mendel, Jeanne, and Renate(P+H) who will be older by 1 year this coming week!!

May it be a lovely day for all of you!

The light is on otherwise I cannot see the keyboard. It is dry and not too cold but the cloud cover is heavy! 6 Degrees, with a light breeze, no extremes during this week!

Been to the butcher, he does not want the geese as people do not eat goose over Christmas and it is difficult to pluck! Plan B is to put an ad in the paper and see what happens otherwise we will phone Mat who we got the geese from and found out what and where to now! I think Barry is quietly glad the butcher did not want them because I will be lost without them!

I have to take all the leave allocated to me and cannot carry it over to 2011 which means I have more holidays than what I work BUT the days I do work I know that I am not 25 anymore, although the mind still hovers in the vicinity of ‘Young’!

Every muscle, bone and joint were pulled into one massive cramp after a night of special attention to 5 patients who had big operations, during the day the work was divided by 2 nurses but come night , you have to perform miracles!

There are a few lost primroses flowering otherwise a very dull colour scheme outside Inside though the orchid have 24 flowers on and is a great pleasure to look at!

We have made the front pages of the world’s newspapers with the IMF and the EU and some or other dignitaries visiting this bankrupt country. The 4 year plan to safe us will be announced sometime next week but we fear for the worst! As Arnolda cannot understand the things that are going on in the name of safety in the airports so we cannot understand how the Prime Minister and the bank managers can earn more than Barak Obama and many more high officials, Those who brought the Celtic Tiger into life, and robbed the country of all its assets have fled and live everywhere else but in Ireland! They are protected by the law and live wonderful lives!People are desperate and already there has been several suicides and family murders!

The new owner of the hospital where I work is planning a big change and we hope and pray that there will still be work for us next year!

There are some of the recipients of my emails that have gone very quiet and I hope that they are all well! Thank you to all who so regularly write, I enjoy every sentence! I think that most of the exams are now something of the past and hope for the very best results!

The rugby is on this afternoon we first have to shout for the Springboks and then for Ireland, I just fear for our blood pressures!

The Psalm and Hymns are all practised and I am ready for the best day of the week, the organ has given notice and I am presently taking my key board to church until the church committee have made a decision!

Our grandson Lukas is the joy of his parents and his grandparents! He will be christened on 19th of Dec! We will under protest drive to Dublin again! Wish it was nearer!

We were horrified by the murders in Vivo and the Indian honeymoon bride and the publicity it received especially the Indian girl, was not to South Africa’s advantage! This brings me back to the propaganda films which you in SA never see, and it was quite natural for the visitors to go and see what Guguletto looks like and many other places where a person living in SA never would enter at night! It makes me very sad as there must be still so much beauty left for visitors to enjoy and now it has been tarnished!

Therefore please be diligent in keeping watch!

Warm regards to you all from us in Cranleymore

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