28 Nov 09 Saturday
Good day to all far and wide, north and south, east and west, near and dear!
Our island is under water with severe consequences. People are devastated and stranded on the little patch if land that there house is build on. Many a villages has been evacuated, the water run 3ft deep through their properties. The old people have been removed to nursing homes they lost everything! Busnisses ruined!
In all the trouble and all the dire need for help not a person in this country has mentioned the help of the Lord or convened a prayer meeting to pray that the rain must stop and the flooding subsided. The Lord is so far removed from the Irish that it is frightening. Catholic and Protestant alike. Talk about a wake-up call, if these weather patterns are not regarded as part of the global warming then who is talking!?????? But no-one is listening!
I also had a wake-up call and mine was very personal I landed for 8 days in hospital with severe cholisistitis. The swelling and inflammation was so severe that I needed 3 different kinds of scan and nuclear x rays, ultra sound/scans to determine where the stones went to and if there were any! Still waiting for the last result but fortunately the big boss. Mr Ash(Egyptian I think) was lenient and allowed me to go home until the operation is scheduled early next year. Blood result not back to normal but I will survive!
Not a good way to lose weight but it kick started it any way after fasting for 4 days and fluids for 2.
Fortunately I don’t get hungry anymore and have no desire for food every mouthful is an effort. I am also paranoid that the pain will start again and I don’t think I will be able to stand it a second time.
I am home now, after a week+, long days in hospital and my friends from ward and hospital where I work, were wonderful, Finbarr drove from Dublin fetched his dad and came to visit me when the weather was at its worse, Since then Barry drove every day in for 2 hours as the hospital is 35km away in the same town I work. Mullingar, a teaching hospital and every morning and some evenings I had the rainbow nations of doctors around my bed. There was not one Irish born dr in this surgical group, from the lightest pale yellow skin to the darkest of Africa.
I ate for the 1st time last night a small bowl of Barry’s stew FAT FREE and did not get sick, my diet so far consisted of grated apple, fruit juices with only trace fat in it and a weetabix for breakfast I got some fat free milk yesterday but until then I only had black rooibos tea over this breakfast. As every bite I take should be as near to fat free as possible. A dry piece of brown toast to nibble on in between.
I eventually get full use of my liquidiser by making smoothies for lunch!
Today the forecast is some drier weather and the winds less severe with some sunshine; we are still waiting for the sun temp this morning -3.cel.
Barry was very lonely but thankfully he had the geese to look after and that helped they are lovely they have put on weight and are clean. They come to him now and talk to him. They are still afraid of me
They only knew me 3 days when I disappeared. They are treated as princes or what- ever they may be, we did not sex them and will wait patiently to see what happens when the breeding season starts, they may be all male for all we know!
The fog is still hanging heavy outside, just been to the shop for Barry’s paper. He threw some bread to the geese and I took a photo from far away, as soon as I come near they run away!
The temp has risen to 0 and the fire never burnt out last night and we could start it from the left over embers and the house is lovely and warm.
The birds are cold and hungry and Barry provides diligently oats, and peanuts, they do not eat fruit, and we fill them up with bread crumbs and everything that stays over in a plate. Green finches, gold finches, hedge sparrows, bull finches, black birds, red robins, lady /male wagtails, the black crows and magpies are also frequenting to grab the left- over.
So many are going to SA for December and I hope those who are there enjoy it and those who plan to travel do it safely! Those who are going to attend weddings, may it be a lovely occasion!
The very sad report regarding the abuse by priests in the catholic church was released this week and I am not here to judge but I believe that they are the anti Christ in themselves, they blatantly lie and deny that they did anything wrong. Some have admitted but many are still denying the facts. Very very sad!!!!
I believe that a large number of family members had birthdays and still to have, our wishes are with them all for a good blessed year ahead. To all those who so brilliantly achieved in their final years, CONGRATULATIONS! Those who are still writing exams and studying hard everything of the best!
Our special regards to tante Poppie and we hope that she is keeping as well as can be expected.
Be careful while driving, lock your doors, and watch where you go.
May it rain where it is still dry, and we pray for those who have been affected by the tremendous floods, and take care!
Love and warm regards from us in a cold shivering Cranleymore!
The Dunnes
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Wintter warm groete van Ierland
Sondag 15 Nov 09
Goeie dag almal, familie en vriende,
Eerstens ,groot ekskuus vir die ongevraagde gemors “8th wonder” wat met my onkunde per ongeluk na elke siel op my gmail adres lys gestuur was. Ek was in die proses om van die ding ontslae te raak toe dit gebeur het, ek het dit ook per ongeluk oopgemaak , niewetende wat dit behels nie. Jammer!!!!
Net terug van ‘n ritjie na Old Castle waar ons na die antieke veiling besigtigingsdag toe was. Dit is so 45 km van ons af en die pad daarheen pragtig. In die somer maak die bome ‘n koepel oor die pad en vandag was dit minder dig en instede van al die groene was dit al die gele denkbaar, die verkeer laat jou nie toe om altyd fotos te neem nie ,veral nie as daar ‘n GAA wedstryd aan die gang is nie, en op die manier stop ek toe met die eerste kleurvolle boom en kon nie droom om gedurende die koepel gedeelte te stop nie.Maar dit was nogtans baie mooi!. Die son het geskyn toe ons hier weg is met heerlike 12 gr maar terwyl ons binne was val die temp met 3 gr en die wolke vergader toe met mening en die pragtige dag kom snel tot ‘n einde!
Ierland het net ‘n 3 gedruk of is dit ‘n 5, maak nie saak nie, nou moet o’ Garah die bal oor die dwarslat skop! Dis oor en 20/20 Ireland/ Aus. Daar was net van te vore ?doel maar kon nie bevestig word met kamera fotos nie en nou is dit gelyk op!.
Dit is nou regtig winter hier in Ierland en die vuurtjie brand elke dag , die huis is heerlik warm en die kort dae word al korter en die lang nagte nog langer!
Tussendeur reen dit aanmekaar en orals staan damme water in die velde!
Verlede Maaandag ry ons Belturbet toe om daar ‘n veiling te besigitig toe ons die ganse langs die pad sien, op pad terug sien ons die boer buite en stop , hy stem toe in om van die ganse aan ons te verkoop, Die hele week soek ons strooi maar nêrens , maar nêrens kan ons strooi kry nie ,die klomp Iere is goed met adverteer maar antwoord geen foon of bel terug nie,geweldig frustrerend.
Nou dink die man ons wil seker nie meer die ganse hê nie terwyl ons moedeloos is, nou gaan ons sonder strooi môre die ganse oplaai, waarin? Die kattebak!
Ons voeltjie populasie is soos altyd baie lewendig en interesant! Die voedsel word nou met grondboontjies aangevul en dadelik kom ander voeltjies besoek aflê, hulle gee ons groot plesier.
Ek verlang so vreeslik na ‘n kat dat Barry uiteindelik saamgestem het dat ons maar weer, ten spyte van die ellnde van die pad, ‘n kat mag kry. Nou soek ek naarstiglik na ‘n Tabby kat! As die kat saam met die ganse groot word is dit nie ‘n problem nie en die ganse laat hulle nie maklik deur ‘n kat afskrik nie.
By die werk is die nuwe korting van 18% nou in werking, alhoewel ons 75 ure per 2 week periode, werk maar word net betaal vir 61.5 ure per 2 weke, die res van die tyd word aan ons teruggegee as ‘oortyd’ wanneer dit stil is in die saal.
Heel party van die personeel kon die verskriklike onsekerheid nie meer hanteer nie en het bedank, een is op na New Zealand, ‘n ander het met sy wêreld in die botter geval en ‘n pos gekry by ‘n ‘elite’ Oue tehuis ‘ in Dublin, maar dit beteken dat hy elke dag 170km moet ry.
‘Songs Of Praise’ is aan die gang en ons geniet hierdie program baie en die saam sing is wonderlik! 3 Priesters wat pragtig sing maak deel uit van die program!
Aan almal wat verjaar het, gsiter, Annalize en die wat die komende week ouer word, ons beste wense!
Aan die wat hul laaste skool eksamen skryf, net die beste en die wat enige ander jaar end eksamens skryf , alles van die beste, dan ons geluk wensinge aan Sam (Thabo) in Brisbane, lekker dat jou ma met jou kan spog!!!en ons ook!!!!veels Geluk!
Die trou fotos wat deurgekom het van Stefan en Nine is pragtig en ek het gewens dat hul groot oupa Gerrie die gene pot verryking kon sien! Hy sou alles wat hy sien so graag wou ontleed,die ‘mooi!’was altyd vir hom ekstra mooi!
Nine in Kokanje, ons hoop jou kar is goed herstel en dat jy weer op pad is, dat alles goed onder beheer is, Paul en Hanlie , hoop dat die trek na nuwe bly plek goed sal afloop!
‘n Suid Afrikaner het hier in Galway betrokke gewees in ‘n rooftog van ‘n poskantoor, Quintin Smith, mens voel maar sleg as so-iets bebeur ,’n afgetrede boer is deur sy kleinseun vermoor, hy was seker op soek na geld vir ‘drugs’ en ‘n ander jong man het vroeg more met sy motor(seker smoor dronk) die sypaadjie bestyg en in ‘n groep mense ingery , waarvan 1 dood is, een in intensief is met erge hoofbeserings, orals op aarde lyk dit of dinge buite beheer is. Ons lees maar die berigte elke dag van al die moorde in SA met seer harte. Dit wil voorkom of daar geen respek vir lewe oor is nie.
Baie dankie aan almal wat so gereeld laat weet hoe dit met julle gaan en ‘n fototjie word baie waardeer! Die Australie fotos was pragtig en omdat ons self daar was beteken dit baie!
Maak seker dat julle veilig ry , dat die deure van jul huise gesluit is, wees altyd versigtig, maak nie saak waar jy woon nie!
Mag dit reen waar dit droog is, en mag dit nie te warm wees in die somer gebiede nie, en vir die in die Noordelike halfrond,geniet die winter, dit is ook mooi! Waar daar ge-oes moet word , mag alles volop wees en die mark pryse goed!
Groete van ons in Cranleymore waar winter ons omhels!
Barry & Christina
NS. Wou net noem dat die 'strike' hier in Edgeworthtown nou iets van die verlede is, 6 maande het dit geneem om tot 'n vergelyk te kom! Die hele dorp is dankbaar!
Goeie dag almal, familie en vriende,
Eerstens ,groot ekskuus vir die ongevraagde gemors “8th wonder” wat met my onkunde per ongeluk na elke siel op my gmail adres lys gestuur was. Ek was in die proses om van die ding ontslae te raak toe dit gebeur het, ek het dit ook per ongeluk oopgemaak , niewetende wat dit behels nie. Jammer!!!!
Net terug van ‘n ritjie na Old Castle waar ons na die antieke veiling besigtigingsdag toe was. Dit is so 45 km van ons af en die pad daarheen pragtig. In die somer maak die bome ‘n koepel oor die pad en vandag was dit minder dig en instede van al die groene was dit al die gele denkbaar, die verkeer laat jou nie toe om altyd fotos te neem nie ,veral nie as daar ‘n GAA wedstryd aan die gang is nie, en op die manier stop ek toe met die eerste kleurvolle boom en kon nie droom om gedurende die koepel gedeelte te stop nie.Maar dit was nogtans baie mooi!. Die son het geskyn toe ons hier weg is met heerlike 12 gr maar terwyl ons binne was val die temp met 3 gr en die wolke vergader toe met mening en die pragtige dag kom snel tot ‘n einde!
Ierland het net ‘n 3 gedruk of is dit ‘n 5, maak nie saak nie, nou moet o’ Garah die bal oor die dwarslat skop! Dis oor en 20/20 Ireland/ Aus. Daar was net van te vore ?doel maar kon nie bevestig word met kamera fotos nie en nou is dit gelyk op!.
Dit is nou regtig winter hier in Ierland en die vuurtjie brand elke dag , die huis is heerlik warm en die kort dae word al korter en die lang nagte nog langer!
Tussendeur reen dit aanmekaar en orals staan damme water in die velde!
Verlede Maaandag ry ons Belturbet toe om daar ‘n veiling te besigitig toe ons die ganse langs die pad sien, op pad terug sien ons die boer buite en stop , hy stem toe in om van die ganse aan ons te verkoop, Die hele week soek ons strooi maar nêrens , maar nêrens kan ons strooi kry nie ,die klomp Iere is goed met adverteer maar antwoord geen foon of bel terug nie,geweldig frustrerend.
Nou dink die man ons wil seker nie meer die ganse hê nie terwyl ons moedeloos is, nou gaan ons sonder strooi môre die ganse oplaai, waarin? Die kattebak!
Ons voeltjie populasie is soos altyd baie lewendig en interesant! Die voedsel word nou met grondboontjies aangevul en dadelik kom ander voeltjies besoek aflê, hulle gee ons groot plesier.
Ek verlang so vreeslik na ‘n kat dat Barry uiteindelik saamgestem het dat ons maar weer, ten spyte van die ellnde van die pad, ‘n kat mag kry. Nou soek ek naarstiglik na ‘n Tabby kat! As die kat saam met die ganse groot word is dit nie ‘n problem nie en die ganse laat hulle nie maklik deur ‘n kat afskrik nie.
By die werk is die nuwe korting van 18% nou in werking, alhoewel ons 75 ure per 2 week periode, werk maar word net betaal vir 61.5 ure per 2 weke, die res van die tyd word aan ons teruggegee as ‘oortyd’ wanneer dit stil is in die saal.
Heel party van die personeel kon die verskriklike onsekerheid nie meer hanteer nie en het bedank, een is op na New Zealand, ‘n ander het met sy wêreld in die botter geval en ‘n pos gekry by ‘n ‘elite’ Oue tehuis ‘ in Dublin, maar dit beteken dat hy elke dag 170km moet ry.
‘Songs Of Praise’ is aan die gang en ons geniet hierdie program baie en die saam sing is wonderlik! 3 Priesters wat pragtig sing maak deel uit van die program!
Aan almal wat verjaar het, gsiter, Annalize en die wat die komende week ouer word, ons beste wense!
Aan die wat hul laaste skool eksamen skryf, net die beste en die wat enige ander jaar end eksamens skryf , alles van die beste, dan ons geluk wensinge aan Sam (Thabo) in Brisbane, lekker dat jou ma met jou kan spog!!!en ons ook!!!!veels Geluk!
Die trou fotos wat deurgekom het van Stefan en Nine is pragtig en ek het gewens dat hul groot oupa Gerrie die gene pot verryking kon sien! Hy sou alles wat hy sien so graag wou ontleed,die ‘mooi!’was altyd vir hom ekstra mooi!
Nine in Kokanje, ons hoop jou kar is goed herstel en dat jy weer op pad is, dat alles goed onder beheer is, Paul en Hanlie , hoop dat die trek na nuwe bly plek goed sal afloop!
‘n Suid Afrikaner het hier in Galway betrokke gewees in ‘n rooftog van ‘n poskantoor, Quintin Smith, mens voel maar sleg as so-iets bebeur ,’n afgetrede boer is deur sy kleinseun vermoor, hy was seker op soek na geld vir ‘drugs’ en ‘n ander jong man het vroeg more met sy motor(seker smoor dronk) die sypaadjie bestyg en in ‘n groep mense ingery , waarvan 1 dood is, een in intensief is met erge hoofbeserings, orals op aarde lyk dit of dinge buite beheer is. Ons lees maar die berigte elke dag van al die moorde in SA met seer harte. Dit wil voorkom of daar geen respek vir lewe oor is nie.
Baie dankie aan almal wat so gereeld laat weet hoe dit met julle gaan en ‘n fototjie word baie waardeer! Die Australie fotos was pragtig en omdat ons self daar was beteken dit baie!
Maak seker dat julle veilig ry , dat die deure van jul huise gesluit is, wees altyd versigtig, maak nie saak waar jy woon nie!
Mag dit reen waar dit droog is, en mag dit nie te warm wees in die somer gebiede nie, en vir die in die Noordelike halfrond,geniet die winter, dit is ook mooi! Waar daar ge-oes moet word , mag alles volop wees en die mark pryse goed!
Groete van ons in Cranleymore waar winter ons omhels!
Barry & Christina
NS. Wou net noem dat die 'strike' hier in Edgeworthtown nou iets van die verlede is, 6 maande het dit geneem om tot 'n vergelyk te kom! Die hele dorp is dankbaar!
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Winter Greetings from Ireland
7 November 09
Good day to all, family and friends
Some of you may know the term ”hutspot” where everything you have left are put into one pot and outcome a stew like dish ,lip smacking tasty. Here it has been done with every element available in the weather pot, all thrown in together and we have strong winds, continuous rain, some brilliant moments of sunshine, lasting 10-20 seconds, early ,very early evenings and gray mornings! This is called WINTER!
During the week, as I was on my way back from work, Barry thought some-one was calling him urgently from outside, opened the back door quickly and answered”Yes....!?”, bewildered looking around, seeing no-one he heard this urgent call again and looked up to see a flock of swans flying fairly low in formation over the roof, struggling against the strong winds and making these nearly humanlike calls to each other. He says it was one of the most beautiful sights he has seen in a long time- sorry I missed it!!!
Hours of deliberation, bullying of the 1st degree, disregard of human feelings the following materialized at work.
The manager of the Nursing home resigned and left within a week, With the financial crisis the senior management cannot appoint a person from outside and the post has to go to some-one internal BUT no- one wants to work there as resources are scarcer than chicken teeth and the work very demanding and patient care of utmost importance. The normal nursing staff agreed to 18% cut in hours but with development the managers were put on the spot and told , one of you have to take over in the nursing home, the most senior of them was told to go down and when she said , she does not think she will be able to cope with the short staff and cut hours she was told , that all the managers will now work only 20 hrs a week and the staff nurses will keep their hours and the cut will come from the ward management because none of them want to work there and their argument “ the reason the previous manager left” he was an excellent administrator and very good in organising but with no staff and 2 women continually interfering and refusing his request , he had enough and up and out. He is going to a Nursing Home with excellent credentials and outstanding record with Hiqa the control board looking after the well being of Nursing Homes. Many tears were flowing, and morale lower that low we have to continue with this unbelievable behaviour of the Director/Manager of Nursing and the Human resources official. No one of us dare to become a “whistle blower” regarding the bullying because the walls have ears and you cannot trust the nearest and dearest to you in this situation.
Very many of the staff in theatre had the SWINE flu , a anaesthetist came to work not feeling the greatest ,not realizing he had the “swine flu” and gave it to the rest of them! Barry and I are careful with keeping our immune system on high alert and we have not fallen ill yet. It spreads very quickly and you become very sick, and needs to be nursed in the home situation in isolation.
With all the rain the beauty of the pansy baskets is out the door and rotten flowers are everywhere to be seen, when the rain stops you quickly pick at them but within minutes you have to desert your post in order not to get wet and sick! With the high temperatures of 2 weeks ago the bulbs all started to grow and we have many standing heads 2” above the ground. The winds are so strong that whatever you put over them gets blown away and the soil makes them grow quicker. We just cannot win!
Tomorrow is Sunday and as ever the most important and joyful day in my week, I am working tonight and will arrive here tomorrow ready to take the uniform off and put clean clothes on and back into the car, on our way to church. It is wonderful how I can manage staying awake going to church and all through the service and other days I am asleep before Barry has pulled the door closed!
Thank you for all the lovely photos I received, I look at them often and enjoy!
Angie, Frik and now we are awaiting the wedding cd/dvd, Georg has fallen of the earth and I am still awaiting a photo of that wedding!!!!!!!
Sam in Brisbane is celebrating his birthday tomorrow, may it be a joyous event! May the exams go well and the year ahead full of new adventures and experiences!
All who are writing exams, whatever kind, read your questions well! Every best wish is with you!
Glad to know that Arnolda and family are safely home after a very traumatic start of a midterm break. Hope sincerely that you were properly insured!!!!!! As the house is now half empty it might be a good idea to leave it empty and make plans to move down under, rent a place in the mean time and I am sure the Ausies will give anything to have the expertise of the 3 ,mother father and daughter in their midst!
I also hope that the Occupational Health AGM went well!
I pray and hope that you will all be very careful and diligent in locking your doors and watch your going about!
May it rain where it should, and other must enjoy the warmth of central heating during the next week of unsettled weather conditions. Gerlof , I enjoyed your writings about Prague.
Our sincere and warm regards to tante Poppie and hope she is keeping well!
Ours warmest regards
The Dunnes from Cranleymore
Good day to all, family and friends
Some of you may know the term ”hutspot” where everything you have left are put into one pot and outcome a stew like dish ,lip smacking tasty. Here it has been done with every element available in the weather pot, all thrown in together and we have strong winds, continuous rain, some brilliant moments of sunshine, lasting 10-20 seconds, early ,very early evenings and gray mornings! This is called WINTER!
During the week, as I was on my way back from work, Barry thought some-one was calling him urgently from outside, opened the back door quickly and answered”Yes....!?”, bewildered looking around, seeing no-one he heard this urgent call again and looked up to see a flock of swans flying fairly low in formation over the roof, struggling against the strong winds and making these nearly humanlike calls to each other. He says it was one of the most beautiful sights he has seen in a long time- sorry I missed it!!!
Hours of deliberation, bullying of the 1st degree, disregard of human feelings the following materialized at work.
The manager of the Nursing home resigned and left within a week, With the financial crisis the senior management cannot appoint a person from outside and the post has to go to some-one internal BUT no- one wants to work there as resources are scarcer than chicken teeth and the work very demanding and patient care of utmost importance. The normal nursing staff agreed to 18% cut in hours but with development the managers were put on the spot and told , one of you have to take over in the nursing home, the most senior of them was told to go down and when she said , she does not think she will be able to cope with the short staff and cut hours she was told , that all the managers will now work only 20 hrs a week and the staff nurses will keep their hours and the cut will come from the ward management because none of them want to work there and their argument “ the reason the previous manager left” he was an excellent administrator and very good in organising but with no staff and 2 women continually interfering and refusing his request , he had enough and up and out. He is going to a Nursing Home with excellent credentials and outstanding record with Hiqa the control board looking after the well being of Nursing Homes. Many tears were flowing, and morale lower that low we have to continue with this unbelievable behaviour of the Director/Manager of Nursing and the Human resources official. No one of us dare to become a “whistle blower” regarding the bullying because the walls have ears and you cannot trust the nearest and dearest to you in this situation.
Very many of the staff in theatre had the SWINE flu , a anaesthetist came to work not feeling the greatest ,not realizing he had the “swine flu” and gave it to the rest of them! Barry and I are careful with keeping our immune system on high alert and we have not fallen ill yet. It spreads very quickly and you become very sick, and needs to be nursed in the home situation in isolation.
With all the rain the beauty of the pansy baskets is out the door and rotten flowers are everywhere to be seen, when the rain stops you quickly pick at them but within minutes you have to desert your post in order not to get wet and sick! With the high temperatures of 2 weeks ago the bulbs all started to grow and we have many standing heads 2” above the ground. The winds are so strong that whatever you put over them gets blown away and the soil makes them grow quicker. We just cannot win!
Tomorrow is Sunday and as ever the most important and joyful day in my week, I am working tonight and will arrive here tomorrow ready to take the uniform off and put clean clothes on and back into the car, on our way to church. It is wonderful how I can manage staying awake going to church and all through the service and other days I am asleep before Barry has pulled the door closed!
Thank you for all the lovely photos I received, I look at them often and enjoy!
Angie, Frik and now we are awaiting the wedding cd/dvd, Georg has fallen of the earth and I am still awaiting a photo of that wedding!!!!!!!
Sam in Brisbane is celebrating his birthday tomorrow, may it be a joyous event! May the exams go well and the year ahead full of new adventures and experiences!
All who are writing exams, whatever kind, read your questions well! Every best wish is with you!
Glad to know that Arnolda and family are safely home after a very traumatic start of a midterm break. Hope sincerely that you were properly insured!!!!!! As the house is now half empty it might be a good idea to leave it empty and make plans to move down under, rent a place in the mean time and I am sure the Ausies will give anything to have the expertise of the 3 ,mother father and daughter in their midst!
I also hope that the Occupational Health AGM went well!
I pray and hope that you will all be very careful and diligent in locking your doors and watch your going about!
May it rain where it should, and other must enjoy the warmth of central heating during the next week of unsettled weather conditions. Gerlof , I enjoyed your writings about Prague.
Our sincere and warm regards to tante Poppie and hope she is keeping well!
Ours warmest regards
The Dunnes from Cranleymore
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Nat en wind in Ierland
30 Oktober 09
Goeie dag allemaal, familie en vriende,
Die kothuis se mure is baie dik en ‘n groot gedeelte van die dak dubbel ,maar selfs met al hierdie eienskappe kan jy die wind hoor loei om die hoeke van die $huis en die reen met geweld weerstand vind teen die ruite! Wat wel skrikwekkend is ,is dat dit byna warm is buite, 15 grade vanoggned toe ek uit die hospital stap. Dit was selde so warm gedurende die somer middae wat nog van vroeg oggend ,dit is erg verwarrend vir die bol plante en baie ander plante! Die tulpe en affodille het begin uitloop wat drie maande te vroeg is, dit maak my baie benoud! Ek kyk by die venster uit en skielik is daar ‘n breek in die wolke en die son is besig om onder tegaan en ‘n pragtige donker pink kleur het in die weste veskyn,dit wil voorkom asof die wind ‘n groot gedeelte van die wolk massa begin beweeg het ,ek het gou die mooi gaan afneem maar het die pink verpas! Dinge gebeur hier teen ‘n geweldige sped en jy kaan nie half aan die slaap wees as jy hier iets op film will verewig nie.
Ek glo dat die 2de huwelik van ,wat sou vir my ma ,agterkleinkinders sou wees,
vind môre plaas! Wonderlik! Alle seёn hulle toegewens vanuit Ierland!
Hier het die personeel en die bestuur tot ‘n vergelyk gekom en hul voorgestelde 30 % is nou afgeskaal na 18% verkorting op salaries.Hierdie nuus maak die vooruitsig van werk tot 2010 ‘n bietjie meer rooskleurig! Daar is praat in die dorp dat die hospital te koop is of reeds verkoop is maar van ‘transparency’ is daar geen beduies met die klomp nie. Die hele hospital is geverf en pragtige kennisgewing borde in die voorportaal aangebring en arme Dr Tersius Venter het ‘n nuwe van,(ek het verskeie kere hulle op die spel fout gewys maar was geignoreer) VENTNER!
Ek sou met verlof gewees het hiedie week maar Dinsdag oggend lui die foon en ek werk toe 3 nagte. Enigiets is beter as dae by die huis met oortyd ,jy raak vervreemd van die werk situasie!
Dit was ‘n rustige week en niks interesant het ons lewens opgekikker nie.
Julle word dus ‘n lang brief gespaar!
Ons beste wense is met almal wat eksamen skryf, in welke vorm ookal!
Die jong dokters wat klaar gestudeer het –Veels geluk!
Ek het geen verjaardae in my boek nie en hoop van harte dat as ek iemand gemis het dat hulle ‘n mooi dag sal he!
Ek dink gereeld aan die wat siekte toestande het en dra jule aan die Here op in gebed! Ek weet tante Poppie se seuns bring gereeld my groete en beste wense oor.Baie dankie! Nine ek hoop dat die diabetes gou onder beheer sal kom!
Ons het ‘n stukkie Suid Afrikaanse geskiedenis gesien in die dokumentere film ‘The making of a modern Brittian’ Die Boere Oorlog en die verskriklike dinge wat die Britte aan die Boere families aangerig het en die vroue en kinders in die konsentrasie kampe , ellende en dood. Hulle verlede is nie so rooskleurig nie en moet maar versigtig trap!
Dit is eienaardig om saans reeds net na 5.30 in donkerte te sit en dit word gewoonlik geassosieer met koue weer, maar nou is dit eienaardig warm, die kouw kom glo volgens die weer buro maar hier neem jy alles wat hulle se met
’n knippie sout!
Maak seker dat julle die deure sluit, Wees altyd versigtig! Kyk waar jy jou voet neersit!
Ry veilig!
Ons wag op die trou nuus ! DVD kan by Dr Martin Kelly in Sunninghill afgelaai word vir direkte aflewering ,ek het gevra of hy omgee om klein goedjies te bring en hy sê, dit is ‘n plesier!Hy sal die 3de week van Nov weer hierna toe kom! Selfs hulle werk het met 60% afgeneem.
Nine ken jy die mense van wie ek skryf? Kan jy hulle onthou? Cilna en Koos Maritz toe van Siloam?
Natuurlik is die ontvangs van briefies en fotos een groot plesier en ek kyk verlangend uit na al die briefies! Baie dankie aan die wat laat weet het hoe dit met hulle gaan! Althea, Dorothy dit was heerlik om jul nusies te lees! Karin ,jou dogter is pragtig!
Die vuur brand hoog in die kaggel en dit is erg gesellig hier by ons. Dit is Halloween vanaand, ek weet nie regtig waaroor dit gaan nie maar spoke ens is aan die orde van die dag!
Byna vergeet ek, Ek bestel gereeld my homeopatiese medikasie per krediet kaart vanaf Engeland het nog nooit ‘n probelem gehad nie maar gedurend die week arriveer ongevraagde tablette en ‘n rekening vir byna R1000, ek was woedend, Barry weet nie want hy het gewaarsku daar is groot bedrog aan die gang met internet aankope.Ek het toe die maatskappy op die net probeer soek maar hulle is weg, nerens te vinde nie, Kontak toe die bank en kanseller die kaart vir veiligheid en op hul aanbeveling stuur die tablette terug geregistreerde pos en ‘n brief om my misnoee met hulle uittespreek .Die bank sal prober om die geld terug tekry. Dus moenie dink dit sal nie met jou gebeur nie want dit kan en sal!
Ek groet vanuit ‘n wind verwaaide sopnat Ierland!
Die Dunnes
Goeie dag allemaal, familie en vriende,
Die kothuis se mure is baie dik en ‘n groot gedeelte van die dak dubbel ,maar selfs met al hierdie eienskappe kan jy die wind hoor loei om die hoeke van die $huis en die reen met geweld weerstand vind teen die ruite! Wat wel skrikwekkend is ,is dat dit byna warm is buite, 15 grade vanoggned toe ek uit die hospital stap. Dit was selde so warm gedurende die somer middae wat nog van vroeg oggend ,dit is erg verwarrend vir die bol plante en baie ander plante! Die tulpe en affodille het begin uitloop wat drie maande te vroeg is, dit maak my baie benoud! Ek kyk by die venster uit en skielik is daar ‘n breek in die wolke en die son is besig om onder tegaan en ‘n pragtige donker pink kleur het in die weste veskyn,dit wil voorkom asof die wind ‘n groot gedeelte van die wolk massa begin beweeg het ,ek het gou die mooi gaan afneem maar het die pink verpas! Dinge gebeur hier teen ‘n geweldige sped en jy kaan nie half aan die slaap wees as jy hier iets op film will verewig nie.
Ek glo dat die 2de huwelik van ,wat sou vir my ma ,agterkleinkinders sou wees,
vind môre plaas! Wonderlik! Alle seёn hulle toegewens vanuit Ierland!
Hier het die personeel en die bestuur tot ‘n vergelyk gekom en hul voorgestelde 30 % is nou afgeskaal na 18% verkorting op salaries.Hierdie nuus maak die vooruitsig van werk tot 2010 ‘n bietjie meer rooskleurig! Daar is praat in die dorp dat die hospital te koop is of reeds verkoop is maar van ‘transparency’ is daar geen beduies met die klomp nie. Die hele hospital is geverf en pragtige kennisgewing borde in die voorportaal aangebring en arme Dr Tersius Venter het ‘n nuwe van,(ek het verskeie kere hulle op die spel fout gewys maar was geignoreer) VENTNER!
Ek sou met verlof gewees het hiedie week maar Dinsdag oggend lui die foon en ek werk toe 3 nagte. Enigiets is beter as dae by die huis met oortyd ,jy raak vervreemd van die werk situasie!
Dit was ‘n rustige week en niks interesant het ons lewens opgekikker nie.
Julle word dus ‘n lang brief gespaar!
Ons beste wense is met almal wat eksamen skryf, in welke vorm ookal!
Die jong dokters wat klaar gestudeer het –Veels geluk!
Ek het geen verjaardae in my boek nie en hoop van harte dat as ek iemand gemis het dat hulle ‘n mooi dag sal he!
Ek dink gereeld aan die wat siekte toestande het en dra jule aan die Here op in gebed! Ek weet tante Poppie se seuns bring gereeld my groete en beste wense oor.Baie dankie! Nine ek hoop dat die diabetes gou onder beheer sal kom!
Ons het ‘n stukkie Suid Afrikaanse geskiedenis gesien in die dokumentere film ‘The making of a modern Brittian’ Die Boere Oorlog en die verskriklike dinge wat die Britte aan die Boere families aangerig het en die vroue en kinders in die konsentrasie kampe , ellende en dood. Hulle verlede is nie so rooskleurig nie en moet maar versigtig trap!
Dit is eienaardig om saans reeds net na 5.30 in donkerte te sit en dit word gewoonlik geassosieer met koue weer, maar nou is dit eienaardig warm, die kouw kom glo volgens die weer buro maar hier neem jy alles wat hulle se met
’n knippie sout!
Maak seker dat julle die deure sluit, Wees altyd versigtig! Kyk waar jy jou voet neersit!
Ry veilig!
Ons wag op die trou nuus ! DVD kan by Dr Martin Kelly in Sunninghill afgelaai word vir direkte aflewering ,ek het gevra of hy omgee om klein goedjies te bring en hy sê, dit is ‘n plesier!Hy sal die 3de week van Nov weer hierna toe kom! Selfs hulle werk het met 60% afgeneem.
Nine ken jy die mense van wie ek skryf? Kan jy hulle onthou? Cilna en Koos Maritz toe van Siloam?
Natuurlik is die ontvangs van briefies en fotos een groot plesier en ek kyk verlangend uit na al die briefies! Baie dankie aan die wat laat weet het hoe dit met hulle gaan! Althea, Dorothy dit was heerlik om jul nusies te lees! Karin ,jou dogter is pragtig!
Die vuur brand hoog in die kaggel en dit is erg gesellig hier by ons. Dit is Halloween vanaand, ek weet nie regtig waaroor dit gaan nie maar spoke ens is aan die orde van die dag!
Byna vergeet ek, Ek bestel gereeld my homeopatiese medikasie per krediet kaart vanaf Engeland het nog nooit ‘n probelem gehad nie maar gedurend die week arriveer ongevraagde tablette en ‘n rekening vir byna R1000, ek was woedend, Barry weet nie want hy het gewaarsku daar is groot bedrog aan die gang met internet aankope.Ek het toe die maatskappy op die net probeer soek maar hulle is weg, nerens te vinde nie, Kontak toe die bank en kanseller die kaart vir veiligheid en op hul aanbeveling stuur die tablette terug geregistreerde pos en ‘n brief om my misnoee met hulle uittespreek .Die bank sal prober om die geld terug tekry. Dus moenie dink dit sal nie met jou gebeur nie want dit kan en sal!
Ek groet vanuit ‘n wind verwaaide sopnat Ierland!
Die Dunnes
Autumn Greetings
Weekend 23-24 Oct 09
Good day to all far and near, family and friends.
I caught most of you out, I made a mistake and only Isabel realized it, Apologies to Jaco van Marle on the farm in the Free State. Congratulations to him for the 14th some 10 days ago! Paul Eloff from Zam also had a birthday on the 18th, belated best wishes!
It made me think, no-one noticed this mistake except one, only one person realised that I did not write last week!
In the mean time life moved on. I cannot even remember where I last ended or where I should start.
We still had a fridge that stayed behind in the GAA grounds after attending the MONSTER AUCTION in Gowna and the man with the trailer could not pick it up as the doors were all locked , We left here in good faith some Saturdays ago in the hope to find some people there and were fortunate. The doors were open and the fridge still standing there.
I dare not ask questions and were extremely worried about the manner in which we will be bringing the fridge home!?
Very carefully we carried the fridge down the flight of stairs, I was told to bring the car near to the door en then the most fantastic manoeuvre took place. Barry loaded the fringe onto the back seat, with the ends sticking out both back doors. With blue rope the doors were secure and off we went! Both doors open like wings! Everyone stayed far away from us who made the trip back easy but we then got the fridge home!
We also attended at Belturbet with good purchases, and the new room is full to the brim!
The old ‘new’ hand woven Persian carpet, looks lovely in the lounge and fit perfectly. Pictures on the wall and we now really have a lovely lounge!
The week that followed was filled with meetings at work, I had no duty, because of time due but the hospital is in die straights! Union representative for our area seems not very interested and we had to inform her instead of her giving us advise. Found it very strange, 2 days later big management /staff meeting where we were, with a slide show, informed of the decline in work and the ratio of staff versus income is not warranted and they want from the staff to cut 150hrs per week from the ward. In reality it is 30% less hours and also 30% less salary! For part time staff it means hardly any income and as it is, their partners or husbands are not working because of the slump in building
Every on up in arms and a ward staff meeting scheduled for Sat was heated, and then suddenly they wanted to vote and me not keeping to my promise of ‘I will only listen’ intervened and explained a few rules and regulations regarding voting on something that has not even been put down on paper, So the meeting had to be reconvened and proper minutes were taken and a vote of no confidence brought forward as conclusion and refusal to cut hours.
Another Union /staff/management meeting took place on Tuesday and the proposals put down on paper were not even mentioned, what a waste of time and we are back to square 1!
I decided to rather keep away and will wait till they want to close the doors or shove me out before I will get involved again!
At the moment I still have a job but really do not know for how long! The poor management of the hospital for years, like in the government, is taking its toll on those who carried them in the good times!
Better news, weather not the best this week but we enjoyed such glorious times the last 6 weeks that we are in no position to complain! The beauty of autumn is grandiose ,colours ranging from bright yellow to dark maroon ,carpets of leaves covering the sidewalks and the small lanes ’ borines’
The front hanging baskets were emptied and winter pansies planted, the strawberry plants, the strawberry plant must be family of the hen with chicks, as the same principle provide growth for the following year and we planted 27 new little plants. The tulips are in and we wait now for the change in hours Sunday night, which means we will have longer evenings and a little longer mornings for a while but then comes the long nights and the short days. “Winter time”! 2 Hours behind SA!
The South African ladies, many wives from doctors working in MIDOC on 6 week stints, met this week at Marthie Potgieter’s house, as she worked yesterday, it was her birthday as well. Once again very pleasant! Met a few new ladies and the one Cilna Maritz and her husband Koos? I think, were long working at Siloam ‘sending Hospitaal’ late 70 into the 80’ies. She knew Paul well, he also operated on one of her children. Also a writer who already has books published, Gerda Ersmus, now Vorster!
2 people I met that used to work or know Paul and Nine ! The world is so small.
Saturday
I worked 2 nights and it was very difficult after being off so long, to get this not so young body back into being very alert, patient, playing a clown, shows intelligence, perseverance, and to be able to make quick and important decisions are at times somewhat tricky.
My back nearly broke as I was, without my knowledge, allocated to St Clair’s the nursing Home it is wonderful how the Lord provides even in simple ways, he send s a nurse that was to have been cancelled for last night, and was not, to arrive and lightened the workload by a 1/3!
Suffering from blurred vision after watching ‘AMAZING GRACE’ we does not often look at films but this was a soul lifting experience! I have to first wipe the eyes.
The wind is howling, the rain is lashing against the windows the trees are bent low and the skies are grey and we are so blessed to be warm and snug in front of the fire while you are hot and bothered!
Hope sincerely that the Krugers’ enjoy their visit to ‘down under’ that Haya and workforce will go into this wedding as medalled warriors! I am not sure but I believe there are a few family members studying for their matric exams and our best wishes are with them, others are doing many modules to achieve their dreams and others are at the end of years of study to venture into the healing field
Lovely to have heard from the Kuypers and as always, every letter is welcome, I have to say there are some gaps in the correspondence register and that needs attention!
I herewith wish the couple to be wedded Gods riches blessings! Nine and Stefan!
Our greetings also to our Tante Poppie, hope that she is feeling well!
No birthdays for this week in my book! Should there be any I am not aware of , Congratulations!!
There where it is dry and rain is needed , may it soon pour ! Those who are hot think of us moving into winter and feel the coolness flow over you!
Those who travel, do it safely
Turn the keys in your doors for safety sake!
Tomorrow, a visiting preacher, hymns chosen and all well for praising the Lord!
With the fragrance of wood burning in the fire, flame red and yellow licking into the air, warm greetings from Cranleymore!
The Dunnes
!
Good day to all far and near, family and friends.
I caught most of you out, I made a mistake and only Isabel realized it, Apologies to Jaco van Marle on the farm in the Free State. Congratulations to him for the 14th some 10 days ago! Paul Eloff from Zam also had a birthday on the 18th, belated best wishes!
It made me think, no-one noticed this mistake except one, only one person realised that I did not write last week!
In the mean time life moved on. I cannot even remember where I last ended or where I should start.
We still had a fridge that stayed behind in the GAA grounds after attending the MONSTER AUCTION in Gowna and the man with the trailer could not pick it up as the doors were all locked , We left here in good faith some Saturdays ago in the hope to find some people there and were fortunate. The doors were open and the fridge still standing there.
I dare not ask questions and were extremely worried about the manner in which we will be bringing the fridge home!?
Very carefully we carried the fridge down the flight of stairs, I was told to bring the car near to the door en then the most fantastic manoeuvre took place. Barry loaded the fringe onto the back seat, with the ends sticking out both back doors. With blue rope the doors were secure and off we went! Both doors open like wings! Everyone stayed far away from us who made the trip back easy but we then got the fridge home!
We also attended at Belturbet with good purchases, and the new room is full to the brim!
The old ‘new’ hand woven Persian carpet, looks lovely in the lounge and fit perfectly. Pictures on the wall and we now really have a lovely lounge!
The week that followed was filled with meetings at work, I had no duty, because of time due but the hospital is in die straights! Union representative for our area seems not very interested and we had to inform her instead of her giving us advise. Found it very strange, 2 days later big management /staff meeting where we were, with a slide show, informed of the decline in work and the ratio of staff versus income is not warranted and they want from the staff to cut 150hrs per week from the ward. In reality it is 30% less hours and also 30% less salary! For part time staff it means hardly any income and as it is, their partners or husbands are not working because of the slump in building
Every on up in arms and a ward staff meeting scheduled for Sat was heated, and then suddenly they wanted to vote and me not keeping to my promise of ‘I will only listen’ intervened and explained a few rules and regulations regarding voting on something that has not even been put down on paper, So the meeting had to be reconvened and proper minutes were taken and a vote of no confidence brought forward as conclusion and refusal to cut hours.
Another Union /staff/management meeting took place on Tuesday and the proposals put down on paper were not even mentioned, what a waste of time and we are back to square 1!
I decided to rather keep away and will wait till they want to close the doors or shove me out before I will get involved again!
At the moment I still have a job but really do not know for how long! The poor management of the hospital for years, like in the government, is taking its toll on those who carried them in the good times!
Better news, weather not the best this week but we enjoyed such glorious times the last 6 weeks that we are in no position to complain! The beauty of autumn is grandiose ,colours ranging from bright yellow to dark maroon ,carpets of leaves covering the sidewalks and the small lanes ’ borines’
The front hanging baskets were emptied and winter pansies planted, the strawberry plants, the strawberry plant must be family of the hen with chicks, as the same principle provide growth for the following year and we planted 27 new little plants. The tulips are in and we wait now for the change in hours Sunday night, which means we will have longer evenings and a little longer mornings for a while but then comes the long nights and the short days. “Winter time”! 2 Hours behind SA!
The South African ladies, many wives from doctors working in MIDOC on 6 week stints, met this week at Marthie Potgieter’s house, as she worked yesterday, it was her birthday as well. Once again very pleasant! Met a few new ladies and the one Cilna Maritz and her husband Koos? I think, were long working at Siloam ‘sending Hospitaal’ late 70 into the 80’ies. She knew Paul well, he also operated on one of her children. Also a writer who already has books published, Gerda Ersmus, now Vorster!
2 people I met that used to work or know Paul and Nine ! The world is so small.
Saturday
I worked 2 nights and it was very difficult after being off so long, to get this not so young body back into being very alert, patient, playing a clown, shows intelligence, perseverance, and to be able to make quick and important decisions are at times somewhat tricky.
My back nearly broke as I was, without my knowledge, allocated to St Clair’s the nursing Home it is wonderful how the Lord provides even in simple ways, he send s a nurse that was to have been cancelled for last night, and was not, to arrive and lightened the workload by a 1/3!
Suffering from blurred vision after watching ‘AMAZING GRACE’ we does not often look at films but this was a soul lifting experience! I have to first wipe the eyes.
The wind is howling, the rain is lashing against the windows the trees are bent low and the skies are grey and we are so blessed to be warm and snug in front of the fire while you are hot and bothered!
Hope sincerely that the Krugers’ enjoy their visit to ‘down under’ that Haya and workforce will go into this wedding as medalled warriors! I am not sure but I believe there are a few family members studying for their matric exams and our best wishes are with them, others are doing many modules to achieve their dreams and others are at the end of years of study to venture into the healing field
Lovely to have heard from the Kuypers and as always, every letter is welcome, I have to say there are some gaps in the correspondence register and that needs attention!
I herewith wish the couple to be wedded Gods riches blessings! Nine and Stefan!
Our greetings also to our Tante Poppie, hope that she is feeling well!
No birthdays for this week in my book! Should there be any I am not aware of , Congratulations!!
There where it is dry and rain is needed , may it soon pour ! Those who are hot think of us moving into winter and feel the coolness flow over you!
Those who travel, do it safely
Turn the keys in your doors for safety sake!
Tomorrow, a visiting preacher, hymns chosen and all well for praising the Lord!
With the fragrance of wood burning in the fire, flame red and yellow licking into the air, warm greetings from Cranleymore!
The Dunnes
!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Herfs groete
Vrydag 9 Oktober 09
Goeiedag allemaal, familie en vriende!!!
Net so ‘n rukkie terug vanmy geestelike byeenkoms met 3 ander Suid Afrikaanse vroue, Dit was my tweede bywoning ,en soos die vorige keer ‘n wonderlike ervaring. Weereens nog ‘n mede verpleegster ontmoet wie se man vir Midoc werk en nou hul 6 weke hier in Ierland deurbring.
Hulle woon In Irene, en vanoggend se trietsige weer het haar byna onder gekry maar gelukkig en ek hoop dat dit die geval is ,is sy terug Mullingar toe op ‘n meer positiewe noot!
Ons kan regtig nie kla nie die weer was sedert September wonderlik, ‘n pragtige herfs, sonnige dae blou lug en min wind. Daar moet ook dae wees wat dit reen ander sraak die boere op ‘n ander manier benoud. As dit teveel reen kan hul nie die oes inbring nie en alles vrot op die land en aan die ander kant as die son te lank skyn word dit weer te droog.
Gister of eergisteraand was daar ‘n program wat wys hoe die boere hier in Ierland hulle kontant oeste terugploeg in die land in want die pryse is so swak en die die groot super market betaal minder vir ingevoerde groente as om hul eie produk te koop. Melk word by die gellings in dreine afgegooi en seldery, ens word weer teruggeploeg!
Eintlik het ons heelwat beleef die afgelope week. Sondag was Rustig en die preke uit Jona wonderlik insiggewend! Gedurende die middag het ons Victor Mee ,die antieke veiling naby Belturbet gaan gesigtig. Sy plek was stampvol byna moeilik omtebeweeg maar in die ‘bargain corner’ was daar ‘n heel party stukkies van waarde as die prys reg is!
Met ‘n lee yskas en niks op die land nie moes ons eers Maandag gaan inkopies doen, Die gras was lank en net na ete het die gras die snyer geproe , dit het vinnig gegaan want dit was droog en en daar is nie meer so baie groei in die gras oor as toe die dae lank was nie. Teen ½ 5 is ons hier weg,veiling toe.
Nadat ons suksesvol op 6 items gebie het is ons uit en weer op pad terug huis toe. Die pad was rustig en ons het sonder moeite die rit afgele. Heerlik in ons eie bed geslaap en Dinsdag moes die organisasie vir transport begin. Koerant nader getrek en gou vir Jonny’s Express Transport gekry wat toe blyk ‘n swart man van Ghana te wees. Hy stop toe hier , laai Barry op en teen 2nm was al die verkope hier. Vroeer die oggend het Barney wat ‘n ou 97 kar en sleepwa het die antike grassnyer by Gowna gaan haal die plek was gesluit en die yskas binne maar hulle kon darem die snyer laai.
Nadat alles goed besigtig is en waardeer is , het ‘n rustigheid oor Barry gekom en hy het nou genoeg om hom besig te hou vir die winter maande.
Woensdagoggend ons eerste ryp -2, maar ‘n pragtige blou lug windlose dag en ons besluit om BAllinasloe toe te ry. Naby Westport aan die weskus. Waar die wereld se grootste ‘Horse Fair’ jaarliks plaas vind, Gedeelte van die pad is ‘n pragtige motorweg en gaan vinig maar die res is maar gewoon, kronkel paaidjies en hier en daar ‘n stukkie plesier tussenin. Die natuurskoon ,herfs kleure orals en baie blare as roesbruin tapyte! Maar daargekom .kon jy sien daar moes perde gewees het maar ons sien niks dag toe ons is te vroeg en sal maar iewers ander ‘n draai gaan gooi . Ry toe Birr toe en gaan kyk na ‘n ander antieke veiling wat komende Saterdag plaas vind, net omte sien , en om tyd teverwyl.
Nou nie die mooiste dorp nie en effe deurmekaar met geen straat name nie en jy moet wonder en vra , anders loop jy in sirkels.
Het baie beter verwag na aanleiding van die advertensie in die koerant maar sienende dat Barry iets weet van Antieke meubels , het ons niejuis opgewonde gewees oor wat ons besigitg het nie en ry toe terug Ballinasloe toe om die perde te gaan besigitig!
Baie honger teen die tyd ,word ons verwen met ‘n Ierse bord kos teen goeie prys en laat die kar waar hy is en stap na die ‘Fair’ terrein, maar steeds geen paard in sig nie..ons drentel toe so bietjie rond en besef dat daar niks gaan gebeur nie in elke geval nie Woensdag nie en neem toe teen 4nm weer die pad terug. Andersoort landskap baie plat met min bome, klip muurtjies as heinings en min plantegroei naby die pad! Gras nog steeds groen!Wonder nou maar oor die ‘Fair’ seker net Saterdag en Sondag!!!!
OOOooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maar dis lekker om na ‘n lang dag in jou eie bed te slaap!
Gister was ontspan dag en vroeg vroeg is ons werkswinkel toe om die ou gras snyer uitmekaar te haal. Die ding is nou soort van regtig oud en het net die rimme van die oorspronklike wiele oor en die laaste eienaar het 2 gewone wiele met ‘n ekstra wieldrom aan die ou wiele vasgeskroef. Dit was alles geroes en het brute vors gesoek omte beweeg maar ek is trots om te se dat om ½ 2 vandag was alles uitmekaar. Moet ook se Barry het die spul goed gedous met olie voor ons begin het om dinge effe safter te maak! Ou enjintjie en al. Nou begin die hertsel werk en soek na onderdele uit die vorige 2 eeue!
Ek werk die naweek en was reeds meegedeel dat ek my pasient in die ouetehuis gedeelte sal oppas, en dit meen dat ek dubbele diens doen, gee glad nie om nie want dan vlieg die nag!Dit gaan maar vrot en ek het soveel oortyd date k volgende week die heel week af is, soos verlof!!!!
Sal nou Sondag se orgel speel vir die eerste keer in 18 maande mis en ook die erediens.
Nou ja verjaardae in my boek is Hildegard die 12de reeds genoem verlede week en Jaco(Jhb) die 14de. Ek sal wel vir Jaco ‘n kaartjie epos!
Dit was heerlik om van almal te hoor Zambie, Nottingham, Hoedspruit, Nine, Haya en natuurlikk die gereelde skrywe uit Kanada en Exeter ens ...Baie dankie vir die lekker lees!
Ek groet en hoop dat die wat eksamen voorbereiding doen en die wat reeds begin skryf het hulle goed van hul taak sal kwyt. Lees die vraag versigtig deur en maak seker dat jy weet wat julle vra!!!!
Vir die wat gereed maak om te trou alles van die beste met die voorgereidings!
Ry asb veilig, sluit die deure, wees altyd op jul hoede.
Mag daar reen val waar dit droog is en ek hoop die Jakarandas lyk mooi!
Goeie oeste vir die boere!!!!
Opregte groete vanuit Cranleymore!
Barry&Christina(Stieneke) ens..............
Goeiedag allemaal, familie en vriende!!!
Net so ‘n rukkie terug vanmy geestelike byeenkoms met 3 ander Suid Afrikaanse vroue, Dit was my tweede bywoning ,en soos die vorige keer ‘n wonderlike ervaring. Weereens nog ‘n mede verpleegster ontmoet wie se man vir Midoc werk en nou hul 6 weke hier in Ierland deurbring.
Hulle woon In Irene, en vanoggend se trietsige weer het haar byna onder gekry maar gelukkig en ek hoop dat dit die geval is ,is sy terug Mullingar toe op ‘n meer positiewe noot!
Ons kan regtig nie kla nie die weer was sedert September wonderlik, ‘n pragtige herfs, sonnige dae blou lug en min wind. Daar moet ook dae wees wat dit reen ander sraak die boere op ‘n ander manier benoud. As dit teveel reen kan hul nie die oes inbring nie en alles vrot op die land en aan die ander kant as die son te lank skyn word dit weer te droog.
Gister of eergisteraand was daar ‘n program wat wys hoe die boere hier in Ierland hulle kontant oeste terugploeg in die land in want die pryse is so swak en die die groot super market betaal minder vir ingevoerde groente as om hul eie produk te koop. Melk word by die gellings in dreine afgegooi en seldery, ens word weer teruggeploeg!
Eintlik het ons heelwat beleef die afgelope week. Sondag was Rustig en die preke uit Jona wonderlik insiggewend! Gedurende die middag het ons Victor Mee ,die antieke veiling naby Belturbet gaan gesigtig. Sy plek was stampvol byna moeilik omtebeweeg maar in die ‘bargain corner’ was daar ‘n heel party stukkies van waarde as die prys reg is!
Met ‘n lee yskas en niks op die land nie moes ons eers Maandag gaan inkopies doen, Die gras was lank en net na ete het die gras die snyer geproe , dit het vinnig gegaan want dit was droog en en daar is nie meer so baie groei in die gras oor as toe die dae lank was nie. Teen ½ 5 is ons hier weg,veiling toe.
Nadat ons suksesvol op 6 items gebie het is ons uit en weer op pad terug huis toe. Die pad was rustig en ons het sonder moeite die rit afgele. Heerlik in ons eie bed geslaap en Dinsdag moes die organisasie vir transport begin. Koerant nader getrek en gou vir Jonny’s Express Transport gekry wat toe blyk ‘n swart man van Ghana te wees. Hy stop toe hier , laai Barry op en teen 2nm was al die verkope hier. Vroeer die oggend het Barney wat ‘n ou 97 kar en sleepwa het die antike grassnyer by Gowna gaan haal die plek was gesluit en die yskas binne maar hulle kon darem die snyer laai.
Nadat alles goed besigtig is en waardeer is , het ‘n rustigheid oor Barry gekom en hy het nou genoeg om hom besig te hou vir die winter maande.
Woensdagoggend ons eerste ryp -2, maar ‘n pragtige blou lug windlose dag en ons besluit om BAllinasloe toe te ry. Naby Westport aan die weskus. Waar die wereld se grootste ‘Horse Fair’ jaarliks plaas vind, Gedeelte van die pad is ‘n pragtige motorweg en gaan vinig maar die res is maar gewoon, kronkel paaidjies en hier en daar ‘n stukkie plesier tussenin. Die natuurskoon ,herfs kleure orals en baie blare as roesbruin tapyte! Maar daargekom .kon jy sien daar moes perde gewees het maar ons sien niks dag toe ons is te vroeg en sal maar iewers ander ‘n draai gaan gooi . Ry toe Birr toe en gaan kyk na ‘n ander antieke veiling wat komende Saterdag plaas vind, net omte sien , en om tyd teverwyl.
Nou nie die mooiste dorp nie en effe deurmekaar met geen straat name nie en jy moet wonder en vra , anders loop jy in sirkels.
Het baie beter verwag na aanleiding van die advertensie in die koerant maar sienende dat Barry iets weet van Antieke meubels , het ons niejuis opgewonde gewees oor wat ons besigitg het nie en ry toe terug Ballinasloe toe om die perde te gaan besigitig!
Baie honger teen die tyd ,word ons verwen met ‘n Ierse bord kos teen goeie prys en laat die kar waar hy is en stap na die ‘Fair’ terrein, maar steeds geen paard in sig nie..ons drentel toe so bietjie rond en besef dat daar niks gaan gebeur nie in elke geval nie Woensdag nie en neem toe teen 4nm weer die pad terug. Andersoort landskap baie plat met min bome, klip muurtjies as heinings en min plantegroei naby die pad! Gras nog steeds groen!Wonder nou maar oor die ‘Fair’ seker net Saterdag en Sondag!!!!
OOOooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maar dis lekker om na ‘n lang dag in jou eie bed te slaap!
Gister was ontspan dag en vroeg vroeg is ons werkswinkel toe om die ou gras snyer uitmekaar te haal. Die ding is nou soort van regtig oud en het net die rimme van die oorspronklike wiele oor en die laaste eienaar het 2 gewone wiele met ‘n ekstra wieldrom aan die ou wiele vasgeskroef. Dit was alles geroes en het brute vors gesoek omte beweeg maar ek is trots om te se dat om ½ 2 vandag was alles uitmekaar. Moet ook se Barry het die spul goed gedous met olie voor ons begin het om dinge effe safter te maak! Ou enjintjie en al. Nou begin die hertsel werk en soek na onderdele uit die vorige 2 eeue!
Ek werk die naweek en was reeds meegedeel dat ek my pasient in die ouetehuis gedeelte sal oppas, en dit meen dat ek dubbele diens doen, gee glad nie om nie want dan vlieg die nag!Dit gaan maar vrot en ek het soveel oortyd date k volgende week die heel week af is, soos verlof!!!!
Sal nou Sondag se orgel speel vir die eerste keer in 18 maande mis en ook die erediens.
Nou ja verjaardae in my boek is Hildegard die 12de reeds genoem verlede week en Jaco(Jhb) die 14de. Ek sal wel vir Jaco ‘n kaartjie epos!
Dit was heerlik om van almal te hoor Zambie, Nottingham, Hoedspruit, Nine, Haya en natuurlikk die gereelde skrywe uit Kanada en Exeter ens ...Baie dankie vir die lekker lees!
Ek groet en hoop dat die wat eksamen voorbereiding doen en die wat reeds begin skryf het hulle goed van hul taak sal kwyt. Lees die vraag versigtig deur en maak seker dat jy weet wat julle vra!!!!
Vir die wat gereed maak om te trou alles van die beste met die voorgereidings!
Ry asb veilig, sluit die deure, wees altyd op jul hoede.
Mag daar reen val waar dit droog is en ek hoop die Jakarandas lyk mooi!
Goeie oeste vir die boere!!!!
Opregte groete vanuit Cranleymore!
Barry&Christina(Stieneke) ens..............
Irish Autumn Greetings
Friday night 2/3 Oct 09
Good day all family and friends,
English week and I hope I remember all I wanted to tell you. So many times the letter is all ready in outer space when I think of something else I wanted to share with you.
I am at present sitting in the ward and it is just about 9pm.
Baby sitting a patient who had an Abdominoplasty done yesterday and being a fairly big operation where they give you a beautiful flat tummy again, she had to stay over another night and being a patient of Harley Street (elite Cosmetic Clinic) she could not be moved to the old age home for the night . Cross infe3ction a reason but also because of the name ‘Harley Street’ and the contract we have with them in Ireland!
I am prepared for a lonely night, TV Times next to me so that I can choose which films I want to watch, a few sudoku’s and of course they never let me go free, a bit of accreditation work as well.
Going back to last week Saturday, we did go to the Monster Auction in Gowna, Isabel will remember well surrounded by lakes and we stopped at 2 lakes during her visit, one very tranquil and the water so bright that you can see every stone in it and the other lake was on both sides of the road, we drove underneath the road to get to both of them. The village is just really a cross roads with Pub , convenient store, petrol pump on the side of the road in front of the shop, a church ,cemetery a few unfinished houses in a housing estate. Outside town you will find the very well kept GAA grounds, with every amenity available to the Gaelic football and Hurling mad Irish.
The Irish very much keep Africa time and we started a good ¾ hr later than advertised but no was is worried and here I experienced for the 1st time an auctioneer that bids backwards.
Lot no 1 a single chair ( there were 750 items and each one was individually sold, and him spending at least 10 min on each item)
“Let start the bidding at €20 , not a sound, €19, still very quiet except the gossiping going on,€18 is the bid, repeated about 10x and with no reaction he goes 1 euro down until he got reaction at €2, it was an absolute disaster 3 hours later he was at no 107, which I likes very much and patiently waited for by going outside several time where the farm machinery was, and a second auction taking place at the same time as the partner in crime must have realised they will be there till Sunday night if he does not start outside in the mean time. He followed the same tactics of starting high and working backwards, so it happened that the other item Barry was interested in, an antique mower, came under the hammer at the same time as my Royal Albert tea set.
I was bidding inside and he outside with more success than me because the woman whom the tea set belonged to was buying it back and was prepared to pay whatever the price was going to be.
We also discovered that the auction were donations from the community in order to bring in some funds for the GAA of Gowna!
Only one horse, one pig for sale, no chickens, or geese as we had hoped. We also bought a fridge, brand new for a few €, everything
still there as the man who offered transport never arrived, so we will have to make another plan.
Sunday was Harvest Thanksgiving Service, and we had a full church Praise the Lord! To play the organ to so many voices was a great joy!! I played SA Psalms and Hymns from my big book which Isabel brought me and it was brilliant as interludes and after the service. Could not stay for tea as it was getting late and I had to get ready for work, so we missed out on all the delicious fat making cakes and had a boiled egg instead!
Left for Castlecomer just after 12.30 on Monday afternoon after I had a bit of a sleep, to attend the Antique auction where we had a few pieces for sale and were also in the buyers market.
Were in good time for viewing and booked into the B&B at 6pm to find out that that the family who runs the place does not believe in TV’s or even a radio in the room! We were there and that was where were going to stay. Very hospitable lady and a lovely room , a lovely bathroom, Direction back to Kilkenny to find something to eat and after a good supper wholesome veggies and a good piece of Sirloin steak we drove the 18km back to Castlecomer to relax and go to sleep. We settled at 8.15pm and I was very tired and not at least worried about the stupid ‘box’ absence went to sleep immediately and woke the next morning at 8 nearly 12 hours!
The house was an old school building and beautifully renovated with excellent taste in furniture. Ground immaculately groomed and a grand piano in the lounge/dining room! OOOOoooooo!!!! I so much wanted to sit in front of it and get going but behaved myself well!
Off to the next auction where we spend, in times of recession a few valuable €’s in the hope that after renovation we will get a good price for the furniture. We were very fortunate to buy an old, in need of work Bombay press, very much the same as the one Arnolda bought to take to Canada, if she still has it. Leather dining room chairs and a much looked for Persian carpet!!!!the rest were real bargains and in good condition. It will keep Barry busy for the winter months and then we will dispose of it in the spring!
Chests of drawers with marble tops and Georgian tables on casters which are very lovely and it felt good to be surrounded by things that are familiar to you.
We drove back in the last light of the day after a long day of bidding and not buying except when the price was right. Our own items were last on the auction and did not fetch the prices we would have liked but we did make a bit of money! and we are happy!
Home, sweet home and even sleeping only one night in a strange bed, made me appreciate my own bed very much!
By 1pm Wednesday the truck arrived and all was packed into the new room, very exciting, and every now and again we admire our purchases!!!
Autumn has arrived and for the 1st time today, in about 4 weeks we had rainy cloudy miserable weather with winds picking up now and promised to be blowing at 80km/hr during the night and with that the youngest of the nuns just left after she came to inform me of the fire that was outside!
The grounds of the hospital belonging to the nuns have quite a few acres under grass which were not cut for 2-3 years and this year with the better weather in Sept the man who always cut the lawns said he will cut the fields charge a small amount for doing it and then the bales would belong to him. So about 16 days ago the grass was cut and baled. Last weekend we had trouble with youngsters playing in the fields between the bales trying to set them alight. At 8.15 this evening the hospital received a call the bales are alight. Fire brigade called and 8 men bravely fought the fire which was started by these youngsters and apparently they stuffed firelighter into the bales, poured some fuel over it and there you had the most spectacular bon fire thinkable. When the fire got out of control the kids must have run away and left the place in blazes. Just 10.30pm and the fires are out. The nun took photos, and it was mighty flames reaching several 100ft into the sky. I knew nothing as I was typing and minding my patient, not looking out windows. Fortunately the fields are some distance from the hospital and we were safe but there were some houses quite near to the nearest bale that was set alight! So much for a quiet Friday night. Naughty children are every where in the world, but I must say there is an element of real un-discipline-ness
in Ireland that is frightening!
Lisbon treaty voting is over and the voting poles are closed and now we all wait in anticipation for the result! The Government is not a show piece of honesty and integrity and transparency has not surfaced here yet and they continue covering-up for each other
But I doubt if they will stay in power if the vote is ‘NO’
I will be off for a few nights until next Saturday night, looking forward to being at home and in the garden.
I have 9 new hanging baskets filled with winter pansies and hope to change the baskets in the front of the house, which lasted 6 months, during this time off!
The leaves are falling fast and the colours along the motorways and roads are beautiful!
I have waffled on long enough and wish every one studying; the very very best of memory ability, those who are waiting for rain like Jaco in Reitz, and may it pour as well as in poor dust drenched Australia.
The winter creeping nearer to the Canadians and us in Europe getting ready for the inevitable, wet, cold, and darkness of winter.
Thank you to all who answers my letters , Joy, Sue, and Thabo (Sam) I hope that you guys there in Brisbane make the best of every opportunity to enhance your knowledge!
Pauli in Hoedspruit, I enjoyed your letter, so please include me in future correspondence!
Always be watchful, never let your guard down, locked the doors and watch your step! Enjoy the month of October the most beautiful month of the year as Mimmie Coertze used to sing!
Regards to tante Poppie, and Birthday wishes to Hildegard on the 12th!
Greetings from the Dunnes in Cranleymore
Good day all family and friends,
English week and I hope I remember all I wanted to tell you. So many times the letter is all ready in outer space when I think of something else I wanted to share with you.
I am at present sitting in the ward and it is just about 9pm.
Baby sitting a patient who had an Abdominoplasty done yesterday and being a fairly big operation where they give you a beautiful flat tummy again, she had to stay over another night and being a patient of Harley Street (elite Cosmetic Clinic) she could not be moved to the old age home for the night . Cross infe3ction a reason but also because of the name ‘Harley Street’ and the contract we have with them in Ireland!
I am prepared for a lonely night, TV Times next to me so that I can choose which films I want to watch, a few sudoku’s and of course they never let me go free, a bit of accreditation work as well.
Going back to last week Saturday, we did go to the Monster Auction in Gowna, Isabel will remember well surrounded by lakes and we stopped at 2 lakes during her visit, one very tranquil and the water so bright that you can see every stone in it and the other lake was on both sides of the road, we drove underneath the road to get to both of them. The village is just really a cross roads with Pub , convenient store, petrol pump on the side of the road in front of the shop, a church ,cemetery a few unfinished houses in a housing estate. Outside town you will find the very well kept GAA grounds, with every amenity available to the Gaelic football and Hurling mad Irish.
The Irish very much keep Africa time and we started a good ¾ hr later than advertised but no was is worried and here I experienced for the 1st time an auctioneer that bids backwards.
Lot no 1 a single chair ( there were 750 items and each one was individually sold, and him spending at least 10 min on each item)
“Let start the bidding at €20 , not a sound, €19, still very quiet except the gossiping going on,€18 is the bid, repeated about 10x and with no reaction he goes 1 euro down until he got reaction at €2, it was an absolute disaster 3 hours later he was at no 107, which I likes very much and patiently waited for by going outside several time where the farm machinery was, and a second auction taking place at the same time as the partner in crime must have realised they will be there till Sunday night if he does not start outside in the mean time. He followed the same tactics of starting high and working backwards, so it happened that the other item Barry was interested in, an antique mower, came under the hammer at the same time as my Royal Albert tea set.
I was bidding inside and he outside with more success than me because the woman whom the tea set belonged to was buying it back and was prepared to pay whatever the price was going to be.
We also discovered that the auction were donations from the community in order to bring in some funds for the GAA of Gowna!
Only one horse, one pig for sale, no chickens, or geese as we had hoped. We also bought a fridge, brand new for a few €, everything
still there as the man who offered transport never arrived, so we will have to make another plan.
Sunday was Harvest Thanksgiving Service, and we had a full church Praise the Lord! To play the organ to so many voices was a great joy!! I played SA Psalms and Hymns from my big book which Isabel brought me and it was brilliant as interludes and after the service. Could not stay for tea as it was getting late and I had to get ready for work, so we missed out on all the delicious fat making cakes and had a boiled egg instead!
Left for Castlecomer just after 12.30 on Monday afternoon after I had a bit of a sleep, to attend the Antique auction where we had a few pieces for sale and were also in the buyers market.
Were in good time for viewing and booked into the B&B at 6pm to find out that that the family who runs the place does not believe in TV’s or even a radio in the room! We were there and that was where were going to stay. Very hospitable lady and a lovely room , a lovely bathroom, Direction back to Kilkenny to find something to eat and after a good supper wholesome veggies and a good piece of Sirloin steak we drove the 18km back to Castlecomer to relax and go to sleep. We settled at 8.15pm and I was very tired and not at least worried about the stupid ‘box’ absence went to sleep immediately and woke the next morning at 8 nearly 12 hours!
The house was an old school building and beautifully renovated with excellent taste in furniture. Ground immaculately groomed and a grand piano in the lounge/dining room! OOOOoooooo!!!! I so much wanted to sit in front of it and get going but behaved myself well!
Off to the next auction where we spend, in times of recession a few valuable €’s in the hope that after renovation we will get a good price for the furniture. We were very fortunate to buy an old, in need of work Bombay press, very much the same as the one Arnolda bought to take to Canada, if she still has it. Leather dining room chairs and a much looked for Persian carpet!!!!the rest were real bargains and in good condition. It will keep Barry busy for the winter months and then we will dispose of it in the spring!
Chests of drawers with marble tops and Georgian tables on casters which are very lovely and it felt good to be surrounded by things that are familiar to you.
We drove back in the last light of the day after a long day of bidding and not buying except when the price was right. Our own items were last on the auction and did not fetch the prices we would have liked but we did make a bit of money! and we are happy!
Home, sweet home and even sleeping only one night in a strange bed, made me appreciate my own bed very much!
By 1pm Wednesday the truck arrived and all was packed into the new room, very exciting, and every now and again we admire our purchases!!!
Autumn has arrived and for the 1st time today, in about 4 weeks we had rainy cloudy miserable weather with winds picking up now and promised to be blowing at 80km/hr during the night and with that the youngest of the nuns just left after she came to inform me of the fire that was outside!
The grounds of the hospital belonging to the nuns have quite a few acres under grass which were not cut for 2-3 years and this year with the better weather in Sept the man who always cut the lawns said he will cut the fields charge a small amount for doing it and then the bales would belong to him. So about 16 days ago the grass was cut and baled. Last weekend we had trouble with youngsters playing in the fields between the bales trying to set them alight. At 8.15 this evening the hospital received a call the bales are alight. Fire brigade called and 8 men bravely fought the fire which was started by these youngsters and apparently they stuffed firelighter into the bales, poured some fuel over it and there you had the most spectacular bon fire thinkable. When the fire got out of control the kids must have run away and left the place in blazes. Just 10.30pm and the fires are out. The nun took photos, and it was mighty flames reaching several 100ft into the sky. I knew nothing as I was typing and minding my patient, not looking out windows. Fortunately the fields are some distance from the hospital and we were safe but there were some houses quite near to the nearest bale that was set alight! So much for a quiet Friday night. Naughty children are every where in the world, but I must say there is an element of real un-discipline-ness
in Ireland that is frightening!
Lisbon treaty voting is over and the voting poles are closed and now we all wait in anticipation for the result! The Government is not a show piece of honesty and integrity and transparency has not surfaced here yet and they continue covering-up for each other
But I doubt if they will stay in power if the vote is ‘NO’
I will be off for a few nights until next Saturday night, looking forward to being at home and in the garden.
I have 9 new hanging baskets filled with winter pansies and hope to change the baskets in the front of the house, which lasted 6 months, during this time off!
The leaves are falling fast and the colours along the motorways and roads are beautiful!
I have waffled on long enough and wish every one studying; the very very best of memory ability, those who are waiting for rain like Jaco in Reitz, and may it pour as well as in poor dust drenched Australia.
The winter creeping nearer to the Canadians and us in Europe getting ready for the inevitable, wet, cold, and darkness of winter.
Thank you to all who answers my letters , Joy, Sue, and Thabo (Sam) I hope that you guys there in Brisbane make the best of every opportunity to enhance your knowledge!
Pauli in Hoedspruit, I enjoyed your letter, so please include me in future correspondence!
Always be watchful, never let your guard down, locked the doors and watch your step! Enjoy the month of October the most beautiful month of the year as Mimmie Coertze used to sing!
Regards to tante Poppie, and Birthday wishes to Hildegard on the 12th!
Greetings from the Dunnes in Cranleymore
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