29 Januarie’11
Vandag my eerste 2011 kar gesien hulle is maar skaars die jaar! Buite is dit 4 grade en bewolk maar kalm en eintlik heerlik! Geen wind nie , ooooooo die wind kan jou verkluim maar vandag is heerlik al skyn die son net sulke flardes !
Ek het die hele ganskelike week gewerk en bedags geslaap ,ek is so moeg dat ek aan die slaap is voor Barry nog die blinder afgetrek het, ek lê doodstil beweeg nie eers nie en 5nm moet hy my skud om wakker te word! Gistermiddag vir die eertste keer sedert Maandag weer ordentlik daglik gesien en het dit baie waardeer!
Ek het ook heerlik aan die briefies gelees maar Gerlof kry duidelik ander pos as ek want ek het net Nine se verhaal gekry! Hessie het jy van my vergeet en die Hoedspruit Weddings, is dit ‘n webblad? sal maar soek!
Die politiek is soos ‘n soupie en sal ‘n pragtige TV reeks uitmaak! Ek sweer hoog en laag dat hulle , dis nou al die wat stemme probeer werf, nie oor die drumpel sal trap nie maar Barry is ewe geneë om almal intenooi en dan te karnuffel! Ek wonder regtig hoe dit op aarde moontlik is om so ‘n verandering te ondergaan wanneer jy in die politieke arena inloop. Onverskrokke met die dikste vel,arrogant, maak beloftes links en regs en hang hierdie pragtige geel wortels voor jou oë en leer vinnig om te jok, eintlik lieg hulle en dan kan hulle nie die eerste leun onthou nie en ‘n 2de een word opgedis en hulle vergeet wat hulle in die eerste leun gese het!. Ek kan net nie beskaafd teenoor die spul optree nie want hulle is almal dieselfde! ‘Gangsters’ soos die buurman sê!!!! Die Sinn Fein klomp praat die reguitste en hulle is die rebelle en ek voel ook soos ‘n rebel op die oomblik, hierdie 2de belasting neem ‘n groot hap uit jou salaris en hoe harder jy werk hoe meer betaal jy, dit is gruwelik!!!
Die hospitaal het groot planne en ek hoop en bid dit kom tot ‘n werklikheid voor ek aftree!!!! Die bestaande gebou word reeds plek, plek verander om ekstra dinge te akkomodeer en die ‘skoonlug’ ( laminaflow)’ teaters is al in aanbou wat beteken dat ons nou groot orpopediese gevalle gaan kry ,heup en knie vervangings,rug operasies en dies meer!
Iewers in die week het ek ‘n noue ontkoming gehad toe een van my ENT pasiente wat ‘n septum korreksie en sinus skraping gehad het aan die bloei gaan toe ek die neus pak verwyder, hy maak dit toe nie maklik nie en bloei toe van die sphenoidale ruimte – geen bloeding deur die neus nie maar die vars bloed stroom toe in sy keel af! waar geen drukking of kaltostat gaan bykom sonder om hom aan die slaap te maak nie maar ek dag toe ‘ ‘n boer maak ‘n plan’ ek pak hom toe in ysblokke van agter en voor en laat hom stukke ys suig ,die arme man se oë was gevries en so-ook sy tande maar siedaar voor die dokter nog iets kon doen het ek die saak gered, Die dokter was erg ingenome met my reddingspoging en het almal vertel dat ek hom nie regtig nodig het nie want hy kan by my leer ,al die harde werk maak nie saak as iemand waardeer wat jy doen nie! Ek spog nie ek vertel sommer maar wat ek beleef! Die ander wou weet ‘how did you know where he was bleeding form?’ Ag, ek weet sommer maar net seker jare se verpleging en kennis wat jy opdoen so met die tyd saam! Die NOK sjirurg het later gese dat ek presies reg was en het gesê hy wonder hoe ek geweet het! Ek is 41 jaar in die beroep hierdie jaar behoort iets te geleer het, sou ek sê!
Buite is dit goor en grou ,hulle voorspel weer sneeu en ons het besluit om te wag vir die 1ste Maart voor ons die tuin gaan mooi maak! Die affodille se punte is sterk besig om deur die bevrore grond te breek! Ek was nog nie weer onderveld toe want my hart word baie seer as ek die paar oorgeblewe vere van die ganse sien , ek kry nog baie swaar om te aanvaar dat daar nie meer ganse is nie . Op pad Longford toe sien ons 3 van hulle maar hulle het nie water om inte swem nie en is vreeslik vuil! Hulle ken die geluid van die kar en as ons stadig verby ry, kyk hulle almal op!
Ons het nou 2 orrels wat moontlike aankope kan wees, ek het ‘n uitgebreide soektog op hande gehad maar wil nou nie meer die klawerbord elke Sondag karwei nie Donderaand is AGM en alhoewel ek werk het hulle nou genoeg inligting om ‘n keuse te maak en die geld goedtekeur!
More is soos julle teen die tyd weet my wonderlikste dag van die week! Psalme en Gesange reeds bekend en ek speel hulle regtig nou net deur – ook albyna 5 jaar wat ek die orrel in die kerk speel!
Verjaardae: Reuben Kruger verjaar vandag en ek hoop hy het ‘n pragtige dag en dat die fesie vanaand heerlik sal wees! Tiener fesie!
More verjaar Sharon Barry se niggie wat ook hier in Ierland woon! Sy het net voor ons hierna toe gekom! Lekker verjaar Sharon!
Tjaart verjaar die 1ste Feb en ek wens hom net die beste toe vir die jaar en baie dankie dat jy gereeld met Mendel kontak maak! Ek waardeer dit baie!
Ook is more altyd vir my ‘n sielige dag want my broers is reeds 6 jaar oorlede. Die dag sal wel onthou word maar ek is ook baie dankbaar dat ons more besoek van PF(Finbarr) Amanda en Lukas kry en ons kan nie wag nie, sommige van julle het ‘n fotojie gekry ,hy is ‘n oulike knapie!!!! Hy beweeg soos weerlig en jy moet hom met ‘n valkoog dophou!
Die koerante was vol van Mandela se siekte en het hoofnuus op TV hier by ons gehaal! Ek wonder wat gaan word as hy dood gaan , of dit die stabiliteit van die land sal ontwrig of versterk!
Nou ja ek groet, skaapboud met gebakte aartappels soet patats ertjies en sampioen sous vir hoof gereg en appeltert met room vir nagereg! Ons bederf hulle maat altyd ‘n bietjie!
Baie dankie aan almal wat briefies geskryf het dit word hoog op prys gestel en jou werklikwaar ook een van Mendel in PMB, ek dag hulle het lankal van my vergeet!
Groete van ons, uit ‘n bewolkte winter middag!
Barry en Christina
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
greetings from a very cold Ireland
22 January’11
Good day to all, family and friends,
First of all a re-assurance that you really have to be in my bad books for being removed from the postal service, so stop worrying. Funny that those who do not need to worry does, and the rest could not care! Those are the ones that are gone !
My fingers are red from the cold ,was not thinking and went outside with no gloves on ,drove to town ,and it is not far enough for the car to heat up, as I forgot to do that, as well, switching it on 15 min before we leave and landed now with very cold, half frozen fingers ! We had brilliant sunshine most of the week which do take the chill off but today it is temperature wise somewhat warmer but with no sun it could just as well be -5 instead of 3* indicating that it is still possible to freeze according to my car!
Winter is long and hard this year, the farmers were especially hard hit as the oats died on the fields, not from the snow but from the very low temperature -18. The variety planted is hardened for severe cold but could not withstand the continuous cold weather!
Our beautiful country of green, green hills and fields are brown and withered from the extreme weather, the precious ‘snow drops’ that are usually flowering by now is only starting to push their little heads above the ground! Our daffodils of which there are over 300 seem to struggle as well!
Ireland is in the most awful political turmoil. Our Prime Minister has lost the plot and fell into a(to be very undignified)sewage dam, and the more he fights for breath the further he sinks into the mess. He seems to be of the same calibre as Iddi Amin, dictator No 1, He listens to no-one his skin is as thick as that of a Rhinoceros and he has forgotten what he was suppose to do, to look after the country and every-one else are picking the fruit! Thousands of young people have left the island in pursuing for work and those that stayed behind are paying taxes for them the politicians, to excel in wealth we now pay 2 separate kind of taxes PAYE as well as USC-Universal Social Charge Where it will end only they know! The country is bankrupt, we owe the IMF billions and the politicians have jumped into the fire after dangling carrots, promises that cannot be fulfilled, a health system that is in tatters and we the subject of this unstable country have to pay! I have to say that we have been wonderfully blessed, I can still work and I do earn enough to keep us going and even sometimes able to put a little bit away by buying Prize Bonds which is guaranteed, just a minute little nest egg for the unknown! You cannot dare to save money as it will cost you rather than earn you something!
PF= Patrick Finbarr( here known as Patrick) has his new business now up and going for 1 year and it is just with the Grace of God that they are still going, he works extremely hard and payment for services delivered is slow ,sometime they have to wait 90 days for cash payments, it is very frustrating and soul destroying for a young man to put all he has, physically, mentally into an economy that is so fragile, but we believe and hope that he will pick the fruits one day!
He is the convener and Chairman of a group of South Africans who work and have companies here in Ireland and they had their 1st meeting last night for 2011, 100 people registered for the occasion and that is a great boost for his advertising and marketing!
The biltong business has taken off well by introducing lovely chilli pieces as protein snacks and any one that would like to have a look, the website is now finished and fully operational:”Caveman Super Snacks”
Lukas Swart is in charge and PF owns a share in the project: website:
www.cavemansupersnacks.ie! Our grandson loves biltong and they keep him busy on long journeys with him sucking happily on a chunk! We all devour every piece we can lay our hands on, be sure it does not last long!
Karen , I ’ tasted’ a mouthful of every piece of cake available on your menu and it was as delicious as what it looked! I sincerely hope that it will take off this year! Who-ever lives near please support Karen she lives in Florida Park! The garden looks lovely!
The hospital are now in new hands, we can already see changes and hope that Mark Gordon keep to his promises and that we will ‘one’ day have a state of the art hospital fully operational with MRI scanner and all! He inspects the work on the wards whenever he feels like and visits the nursing home ever so often and unexpectedly! On Thursday 58 patients passed through 4 theatres as well as through the ward where there are only 36 beds. The staff compliment has not increased in fact any-one that left was never replaced and I can assure you this means hard work! The last patients came back from theatre that night at 9.30 pm. That is a long day, also for the theatre staff! Night duty is now just as demanding as day duty as we do everything, there is no helper or carer, you just have to! Come 8am you long for your bed with vengeance and I usually leave the hospital after 8.30 travel 40km home and have to stay awake by singing loudly to gospel Cd’s!
Now by this the time Sam and Emma are most probably husband and wife and just the very best wishes to them!
Birthdays are as follows according to my book! Leandra 24th, Dimitrij 26th, Happy Birthday and I hope that the year will be good!!!
The church has their AGM early next month and I hope that they will approve an amount for the organ or whatever they decide upon, I do not mind but it is a schlep taking the keyboard every Sunday to church. As always tomorrow is the best day of my week and we also have a website up and running! The food for our souls are of the highest quality and we can only thrive on it spiritually!!
I am also very thankful to have heard from Joy in Brisbane that they were safe and living on a hill and were not directly affected by the floods .We are praying for all those that lost family members and all that they own!
Wondering if the good rains in SA has reached the Brak Rivier area, can some-one let me know! That is where Mendel my brother lives!
Barry has been neglected and I have to get Lunch on the table, there-for I wish you all a good week, be careful especially on the roads!
Take care!
Regards from Barry& Christina in a shivering Ireland!
NS Posted several hours later as we left to view an Auction of a very distinguished lady whom the town was named after!
Good day to all, family and friends,
First of all a re-assurance that you really have to be in my bad books for being removed from the postal service, so stop worrying. Funny that those who do not need to worry does, and the rest could not care! Those are the ones that are gone !
My fingers are red from the cold ,was not thinking and went outside with no gloves on ,drove to town ,and it is not far enough for the car to heat up, as I forgot to do that, as well, switching it on 15 min before we leave and landed now with very cold, half frozen fingers ! We had brilliant sunshine most of the week which do take the chill off but today it is temperature wise somewhat warmer but with no sun it could just as well be -5 instead of 3* indicating that it is still possible to freeze according to my car!
Winter is long and hard this year, the farmers were especially hard hit as the oats died on the fields, not from the snow but from the very low temperature -18. The variety planted is hardened for severe cold but could not withstand the continuous cold weather!
Our beautiful country of green, green hills and fields are brown and withered from the extreme weather, the precious ‘snow drops’ that are usually flowering by now is only starting to push their little heads above the ground! Our daffodils of which there are over 300 seem to struggle as well!
Ireland is in the most awful political turmoil. Our Prime Minister has lost the plot and fell into a(to be very undignified)sewage dam, and the more he fights for breath the further he sinks into the mess. He seems to be of the same calibre as Iddi Amin, dictator No 1, He listens to no-one his skin is as thick as that of a Rhinoceros and he has forgotten what he was suppose to do, to look after the country and every-one else are picking the fruit! Thousands of young people have left the island in pursuing for work and those that stayed behind are paying taxes for them the politicians, to excel in wealth we now pay 2 separate kind of taxes PAYE as well as USC-Universal Social Charge Where it will end only they know! The country is bankrupt, we owe the IMF billions and the politicians have jumped into the fire after dangling carrots, promises that cannot be fulfilled, a health system that is in tatters and we the subject of this unstable country have to pay! I have to say that we have been wonderfully blessed, I can still work and I do earn enough to keep us going and even sometimes able to put a little bit away by buying Prize Bonds which is guaranteed, just a minute little nest egg for the unknown! You cannot dare to save money as it will cost you rather than earn you something!
PF= Patrick Finbarr( here known as Patrick) has his new business now up and going for 1 year and it is just with the Grace of God that they are still going, he works extremely hard and payment for services delivered is slow ,sometime they have to wait 90 days for cash payments, it is very frustrating and soul destroying for a young man to put all he has, physically, mentally into an economy that is so fragile, but we believe and hope that he will pick the fruits one day!
He is the convener and Chairman of a group of South Africans who work and have companies here in Ireland and they had their 1st meeting last night for 2011, 100 people registered for the occasion and that is a great boost for his advertising and marketing!
The biltong business has taken off well by introducing lovely chilli pieces as protein snacks and any one that would like to have a look, the website is now finished and fully operational:”Caveman Super Snacks”
Lukas Swart is in charge and PF owns a share in the project: website:
www.cavemansupersnacks.ie! Our grandson loves biltong and they keep him busy on long journeys with him sucking happily on a chunk! We all devour every piece we can lay our hands on, be sure it does not last long!
Karen , I ’ tasted’ a mouthful of every piece of cake available on your menu and it was as delicious as what it looked! I sincerely hope that it will take off this year! Who-ever lives near please support Karen she lives in Florida Park! The garden looks lovely!
The hospital are now in new hands, we can already see changes and hope that Mark Gordon keep to his promises and that we will ‘one’ day have a state of the art hospital fully operational with MRI scanner and all! He inspects the work on the wards whenever he feels like and visits the nursing home ever so often and unexpectedly! On Thursday 58 patients passed through 4 theatres as well as through the ward where there are only 36 beds. The staff compliment has not increased in fact any-one that left was never replaced and I can assure you this means hard work! The last patients came back from theatre that night at 9.30 pm. That is a long day, also for the theatre staff! Night duty is now just as demanding as day duty as we do everything, there is no helper or carer, you just have to! Come 8am you long for your bed with vengeance and I usually leave the hospital after 8.30 travel 40km home and have to stay awake by singing loudly to gospel Cd’s!
Now by this the time Sam and Emma are most probably husband and wife and just the very best wishes to them!
Birthdays are as follows according to my book! Leandra 24th, Dimitrij 26th, Happy Birthday and I hope that the year will be good!!!
The church has their AGM early next month and I hope that they will approve an amount for the organ or whatever they decide upon, I do not mind but it is a schlep taking the keyboard every Sunday to church. As always tomorrow is the best day of my week and we also have a website up and running! The food for our souls are of the highest quality and we can only thrive on it spiritually!!
I am also very thankful to have heard from Joy in Brisbane that they were safe and living on a hill and were not directly affected by the floods .We are praying for all those that lost family members and all that they own!
Wondering if the good rains in SA has reached the Brak Rivier area, can some-one let me know! That is where Mendel my brother lives!
Barry has been neglected and I have to get Lunch on the table, there-for I wish you all a good week, be careful especially on the roads!
Take care!
Regards from Barry& Christina in a shivering Ireland!
NS Posted several hours later as we left to view an Auction of a very distinguished lady whom the town was named after!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Groete vanuit 'n windverwaaide nat Ierland
15 Januarie 2011
Goeie dag familie en vriende,
As julle dit nog nie weet nie ,dit reen en dit reen en vandag is 12 grade ongelooflike weerspatrone wat deur die eiland op vlerke van hoë winde beweeg!
Jy moet vinnig kyk as jy die son wil sien want as dié ‘n kans kry mag daar vir enkele sekondes ‘n blerts wamte deur die wolke massa dring andersins het ons die ligte aan van vroeg oggend tot ons bed toe gaan! Die dae begin darem al langer word wat ‘n blye verskynsel is!
My hart gaan uit na die inwoners van Queensland, ek was self nog nooit in ‘n vloed nie maar ons het voor verlede jaar erge vloede naby aan ons gehad en dit is hartverskeurend!
Veels Geluk aan Sam en Emma wat volgende Saterdag trou! Mag julle ‘n pragtige dag in sonnige Suid Afrika hê.
Ons het maar min nuus, al die ganse is verkoop en dis stil op die werf, ek mis hulle baie maar ek dink Barry mis hulle die meeste maar hy kon dit net nie volhou nie , ‘n Mens moet na diere omsien en veral met die geweldige sneeu wat ons gehad,moet hulle gevoer word en goed versorg word en dit verg baie,ook beperk dit ons bewegings en nou is ons vry!!!!!My hart is baie seer want die storie verteller is dood en lankal opge-eet!
Ons het ‘n nuwe baas by die hsopitaal en hy beplan baie veranderinge en ek hoop dit kom tot ‘n werklikheid want met die oorstromings van griep gevalle by die Algemene Hopsitaal gedurende die afgelope 6 weke is ‘n ekstra Ongevalle en Nood dienste dept hoogs in aanvraag ,veral vir privaat pasiente wat nou almal na die algemene hospitaal toe moet gaan! Omdat daar so baie pasiente op trollies moes deurbring en daar so min personeel is vanwee die bekortings in Gesondheid het mense ongediagnoseerd gelê vir dae en so het ons op die oomblik pasiente wat geperforeerde blindederms met die nagevolge op ons saal!
Ek sou nog met verlof gewees het die afgelope week maar is alreeds Woensdagnag terug, baie verpleegsters siek met die Swine griep! Die afgelope jaar het ons min mediese pasiente gehad maar nou stroom hulle in en dit verg baie verpleeging! Ek moet erken na byna 5 weke van niks doen nie is dit heerlik om weer te werk ,my rug het die eerste nag bietjie les opgesê maar jy raak gou weer daaraan gewoond!
Ons politieke toestand is een van chaos en ellende! Die politici moet iewers opleiding kry wat hulle leer om net nooit die volle waarheid te vertel nie ook hoe om leuens in waarheid te verander, net jammer hulle onthou die eerste leun nie dan trap hulle in ‘n strik en word so gevang! Dit moet seker maar oor die aarde die geval wees ek moet nog ‘n eerbare politikus ontmoet, die wat wel is dra swaar aan hulle gemoede en sukkel om bo uittekom! Ons ken die stryd!
Gelukwensinge aan MarieJanke wat more 21 jaar oud is! ‘n pragtige dag jou toegewens!en ‘n goeie jaar! My vriendin in Florida Hills verjaar Maandag Veels geluk Dorothy! Ook aan jou ‘n mooi dag en goeie jaar toegewens!
Ek het my adres lys drasties verkort, dus is dit die laaste brief wat na almal uitgaan As daar iemand is want dink hulle wil tog iets van ons hoor laat my weet maar andersins is dit totsiens!
Mens kom op ‘n punt wat jy besef ander mense stel nie belang in jou doen en late nie en dit skeel hulle min wat hier op die Ierse eiland aangaan! Dus as jy volgende week nie ‘n brief kry weet jy , dis verby, jy is ontslae van ons! Ek sal nie verbaas wees as daar heugelike sugte die lug ingaan by die lees van die nuus nie , dis nou te sê as jy so vér lees!
Onse klein seun is fluks aan die groei en seil deesdae soos ‘n slang op sy maag en elmboë deur die lewe teen ‘n geweldige spoed!
My gesange en Psalme is goed geoefen en môre is die beste dag van my week! Ek hoop almal het ‘n geseënde Sondag! Vol sielsvoeding!
Dit is grou en lelik buite alles is pikswart verbrand van die swart ys en erge koue, al my plante in my sogenaamde ‘hothouse’ het tot slymerige rubber verander en ek moes alles uitgooi! Orgideë ,alles, net my ou piep klein rosie wat ek nou al 3 jaar oppas staan nog met ‘n paar uitloopseltjies! Buite is niks sigbaar behalwe die puntjies van die affodille nie!
Nou ja almal wat troue toe gaan, ry veilig, geniet ook vir ons part!
Liefde groete van ons in ‘n papsopnat Cranleymore
Barry & Christina
Goeie dag familie en vriende,
As julle dit nog nie weet nie ,dit reen en dit reen en vandag is 12 grade ongelooflike weerspatrone wat deur die eiland op vlerke van hoë winde beweeg!
Jy moet vinnig kyk as jy die son wil sien want as dié ‘n kans kry mag daar vir enkele sekondes ‘n blerts wamte deur die wolke massa dring andersins het ons die ligte aan van vroeg oggend tot ons bed toe gaan! Die dae begin darem al langer word wat ‘n blye verskynsel is!
My hart gaan uit na die inwoners van Queensland, ek was self nog nooit in ‘n vloed nie maar ons het voor verlede jaar erge vloede naby aan ons gehad en dit is hartverskeurend!
Veels Geluk aan Sam en Emma wat volgende Saterdag trou! Mag julle ‘n pragtige dag in sonnige Suid Afrika hê.
Ons het maar min nuus, al die ganse is verkoop en dis stil op die werf, ek mis hulle baie maar ek dink Barry mis hulle die meeste maar hy kon dit net nie volhou nie , ‘n Mens moet na diere omsien en veral met die geweldige sneeu wat ons gehad,moet hulle gevoer word en goed versorg word en dit verg baie,ook beperk dit ons bewegings en nou is ons vry!!!!!My hart is baie seer want die storie verteller is dood en lankal opge-eet!
Ons het ‘n nuwe baas by die hsopitaal en hy beplan baie veranderinge en ek hoop dit kom tot ‘n werklikheid want met die oorstromings van griep gevalle by die Algemene Hopsitaal gedurende die afgelope 6 weke is ‘n ekstra Ongevalle en Nood dienste dept hoogs in aanvraag ,veral vir privaat pasiente wat nou almal na die algemene hospitaal toe moet gaan! Omdat daar so baie pasiente op trollies moes deurbring en daar so min personeel is vanwee die bekortings in Gesondheid het mense ongediagnoseerd gelê vir dae en so het ons op die oomblik pasiente wat geperforeerde blindederms met die nagevolge op ons saal!
Ek sou nog met verlof gewees het die afgelope week maar is alreeds Woensdagnag terug, baie verpleegsters siek met die Swine griep! Die afgelope jaar het ons min mediese pasiente gehad maar nou stroom hulle in en dit verg baie verpleeging! Ek moet erken na byna 5 weke van niks doen nie is dit heerlik om weer te werk ,my rug het die eerste nag bietjie les opgesê maar jy raak gou weer daaraan gewoond!
Ons politieke toestand is een van chaos en ellende! Die politici moet iewers opleiding kry wat hulle leer om net nooit die volle waarheid te vertel nie ook hoe om leuens in waarheid te verander, net jammer hulle onthou die eerste leun nie dan trap hulle in ‘n strik en word so gevang! Dit moet seker maar oor die aarde die geval wees ek moet nog ‘n eerbare politikus ontmoet, die wat wel is dra swaar aan hulle gemoede en sukkel om bo uittekom! Ons ken die stryd!
Gelukwensinge aan MarieJanke wat more 21 jaar oud is! ‘n pragtige dag jou toegewens!en ‘n goeie jaar! My vriendin in Florida Hills verjaar Maandag Veels geluk Dorothy! Ook aan jou ‘n mooi dag en goeie jaar toegewens!
Ek het my adres lys drasties verkort, dus is dit die laaste brief wat na almal uitgaan As daar iemand is want dink hulle wil tog iets van ons hoor laat my weet maar andersins is dit totsiens!
Mens kom op ‘n punt wat jy besef ander mense stel nie belang in jou doen en late nie en dit skeel hulle min wat hier op die Ierse eiland aangaan! Dus as jy volgende week nie ‘n brief kry weet jy , dis verby, jy is ontslae van ons! Ek sal nie verbaas wees as daar heugelike sugte die lug ingaan by die lees van die nuus nie , dis nou te sê as jy so vér lees!
Onse klein seun is fluks aan die groei en seil deesdae soos ‘n slang op sy maag en elmboë deur die lewe teen ‘n geweldige spoed!
My gesange en Psalme is goed geoefen en môre is die beste dag van my week! Ek hoop almal het ‘n geseënde Sondag! Vol sielsvoeding!
Dit is grou en lelik buite alles is pikswart verbrand van die swart ys en erge koue, al my plante in my sogenaamde ‘hothouse’ het tot slymerige rubber verander en ek moes alles uitgooi! Orgideë ,alles, net my ou piep klein rosie wat ek nou al 3 jaar oppas staan nog met ‘n paar uitloopseltjies! Buite is niks sigbaar behalwe die puntjies van die affodille nie!
Nou ja almal wat troue toe gaan, ry veilig, geniet ook vir ons part!
Liefde groete van ons in ‘n papsopnat Cranleymore
Barry & Christina
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Early January Greetings
8 JANUARY 2011
Good day to all, family and friends!
A week ago the New Year started and I sincerely hope that all had a good time with family and that those who were privileged enough to go on holiday enjoyed every minute of it!
The weather has been like a yo-yo snowing, freezing, thawing, sunshine, blue skies and temp up to 9 degrees and since Wednesday we back into extreme cold and last night it started to snow again not as heavy as last year end but enough! We must be living in a spot where the weather seems to put its deposits down, it snows as we drive out the gate into the village and there the sun shines, on the way back you can see where the line is and we are back into the snow as we drive in the gate!
The Swine Flu has been taking its toll and my colleague
who has her birthday today, is still very sick. I am still on a week’s leave but if so many people are not well the possibility that I will be called in is great. The hospital has finally changed hands yesterday and we are now in a different disposition and pray that the economy will get better and that business will return to normal! There is a crisis in the General hospitals as beds have been closed and staff retrenched during the year and now they cannot cope with the influx of very ill people in the hospital in Mullingar there are 3 people on ventilators because of the Swine flu. Patients are lying on trolleys in passages and the cross infection is rampart!
Not only do they struggle with hospital overcrowding but with the big freeze so many of the old water pipes burst here in the South as well as in Northern Ireland where it was very bad and thousands of families were without water for weeks! The water pressure is down early in the morning but at about 11am you can take a shower , we were very fortunate that none of our pipes burst so many of the neighbours had severe problems especially when they had to get water to their cattle!
The country surely have more water than the whole of Africa together and they cannot manage the water supply and maintenance of reservoirs, unbelievable!!!!
Australia is having floods and where Mendel my brother live in Brakrivier , a sea water desalting process is nearly ready to provide water for household use as it is so dry water restrictions are inevitable! Very glad to hear that rain fell on the farm in the Limpopo province!!!also in Natal!
The economy of our country is in the mud and so are the government, hopefully the election at the end of March will bring a change!
Our grandson Lukas is growing so fast and will be crawling any day! Thank you Fumi for the lovely picture of the children!Tomorrow is Sunday and as always the very best day of my week! Topping up of food for the soul!
Thank you for the letters and photos ,it is always very welcome and appreciated! There are others that had fallen by the wayside! Karen how is the tea garden going? I do have SKYPE and suddenly a very familiar name popped up on my screen and I spoke in person to my dear friend Trish and could see her, that was ever so special! What a great way to start the year!
The pot of soup on the stove needs my attention and I will leave you now with good wishes for all and Congratulations to those who passed their exams!
Warm regards
From a snow covered Cranleymore
Barry & Christina
Good day to all, family and friends!
A week ago the New Year started and I sincerely hope that all had a good time with family and that those who were privileged enough to go on holiday enjoyed every minute of it!
The weather has been like a yo-yo snowing, freezing, thawing, sunshine, blue skies and temp up to 9 degrees and since Wednesday we back into extreme cold and last night it started to snow again not as heavy as last year end but enough! We must be living in a spot where the weather seems to put its deposits down, it snows as we drive out the gate into the village and there the sun shines, on the way back you can see where the line is and we are back into the snow as we drive in the gate!
The Swine Flu has been taking its toll and my colleague
who has her birthday today, is still very sick. I am still on a week’s leave but if so many people are not well the possibility that I will be called in is great. The hospital has finally changed hands yesterday and we are now in a different disposition and pray that the economy will get better and that business will return to normal! There is a crisis in the General hospitals as beds have been closed and staff retrenched during the year and now they cannot cope with the influx of very ill people in the hospital in Mullingar there are 3 people on ventilators because of the Swine flu. Patients are lying on trolleys in passages and the cross infection is rampart!
Not only do they struggle with hospital overcrowding but with the big freeze so many of the old water pipes burst here in the South as well as in Northern Ireland where it was very bad and thousands of families were without water for weeks! The water pressure is down early in the morning but at about 11am you can take a shower , we were very fortunate that none of our pipes burst so many of the neighbours had severe problems especially when they had to get water to their cattle!
The country surely have more water than the whole of Africa together and they cannot manage the water supply and maintenance of reservoirs, unbelievable!!!!
Australia is having floods and where Mendel my brother live in Brakrivier , a sea water desalting process is nearly ready to provide water for household use as it is so dry water restrictions are inevitable! Very glad to hear that rain fell on the farm in the Limpopo province!!!also in Natal!
The economy of our country is in the mud and so are the government, hopefully the election at the end of March will bring a change!
Our grandson Lukas is growing so fast and will be crawling any day! Thank you Fumi for the lovely picture of the children!Tomorrow is Sunday and as always the very best day of my week! Topping up of food for the soul!
Thank you for the letters and photos ,it is always very welcome and appreciated! There are others that had fallen by the wayside! Karen how is the tea garden going? I do have SKYPE and suddenly a very familiar name popped up on my screen and I spoke in person to my dear friend Trish and could see her, that was ever so special! What a great way to start the year!
The pot of soup on the stove needs my attention and I will leave you now with good wishes for all and Congratulations to those who passed their exams!
Warm regards
From a snow covered Cranleymore
Barry & Christina
Sincere Winter Greetings from Ireland
31 Desember 2010
Geliefdes,
Die jaar snel nou vinnig na sy einde,daar is so baie ek wou doen en nooit by uitgekom het nie, daar is ook soveel dinge wat ek nie wou doen nie en tog gedoen het,en gedane sake het geen keer!
Dit is met groot dankbaar dat ek en Barry terug kyk op ‘n jaar van uiterstes. Erge koue,sneeu vas gevries, siektes, operasies,angiogramme aan die negatiewe kant maar skaalgewys dra die volgenede die meeste gewig. Ons pragtig kleinseun Lukas wat nou 8mnde oud is en ‘n groot plesier vir sy ouers en grootouers is! Ons is erg trots op die seuntjie!
Ek het nog werk! Daar was baie dae van kommer maar die is oorkom en die hospitaal staan voor ‘n nuwe bedeling en bestuur en ons hoop en bid dat alles wat beloof is tot werklikheid sal kom!
Die liewe Heer het ons ryklik geseën en ons gaan die ou jaar uit gesond, helder van brein met baie nuwe uitdagings voor ons. Ons stokperdtjie met die ganse het ons baie geleer en nou is net Madam oor, sy wag om opgelaai te word,waar sy verder sal moeder wees tot veel meer klein gansies!
2011 Het sy eie geheime en verrassings en ek is dankbaar dat ons nie weet wat vir ons voorlê nie ons kan dan soveel makliker die toekoms tegemoet gaan!
Baie van ons het hartseer beleef, ander groot vreugdes! Maar dit is die lewe!
Leef naby aan jou Skepper ,wees vergewensgesind,wys jou liefde,werk hard ,gaan met vertroue in God die Nuwe Jaar in!
Dit is dan my laaste skrywe vir 2010 dankbaar dat die sneeu gesmelt het en dat dit eintlik heerlike weer is,21 grade warmer as verlede week Dinsdag!
Baie dankie vir almal wat so gereeld in kontak gebly het,vir mooi fotos en kostelike eposse!
Geniet die Nuwe Jaar en hou matigheid voor oë!
Liefde groete
Barry & Christina
Geliefdes,
Die jaar snel nou vinnig na sy einde,daar is so baie ek wou doen en nooit by uitgekom het nie, daar is ook soveel dinge wat ek nie wou doen nie en tog gedoen het,en gedane sake het geen keer!
Dit is met groot dankbaar dat ek en Barry terug kyk op ‘n jaar van uiterstes. Erge koue,sneeu vas gevries, siektes, operasies,angiogramme aan die negatiewe kant maar skaalgewys dra die volgenede die meeste gewig. Ons pragtig kleinseun Lukas wat nou 8mnde oud is en ‘n groot plesier vir sy ouers en grootouers is! Ons is erg trots op die seuntjie!
Ek het nog werk! Daar was baie dae van kommer maar die is oorkom en die hospitaal staan voor ‘n nuwe bedeling en bestuur en ons hoop en bid dat alles wat beloof is tot werklikheid sal kom!
Die liewe Heer het ons ryklik geseën en ons gaan die ou jaar uit gesond, helder van brein met baie nuwe uitdagings voor ons. Ons stokperdtjie met die ganse het ons baie geleer en nou is net Madam oor, sy wag om opgelaai te word,waar sy verder sal moeder wees tot veel meer klein gansies!
2011 Het sy eie geheime en verrassings en ek is dankbaar dat ons nie weet wat vir ons voorlê nie ons kan dan soveel makliker die toekoms tegemoet gaan!
Baie van ons het hartseer beleef, ander groot vreugdes! Maar dit is die lewe!
Leef naby aan jou Skepper ,wees vergewensgesind,wys jou liefde,werk hard ,gaan met vertroue in God die Nuwe Jaar in!
Dit is dan my laaste skrywe vir 2010 dankbaar dat die sneeu gesmelt het en dat dit eintlik heerlike weer is,21 grade warmer as verlede week Dinsdag!
Baie dankie vir almal wat so gereeld in kontak gebly het,vir mooi fotos en kostelike eposse!
Geniet die Nuwe Jaar en hou matigheid voor oë!
Liefde groete
Barry & Christina
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