Saterdag 6 Maart’10
Goeie dag allemaal,
Ons het die afgelope week stralende weer gehad! Een effe natterige dag maar meerendeels heerlike sonnige, wind vrye, lente dae! Ons het buite in die son gesit en tee drink selfs ons woordspel daar gespeel!
Nou ja hier het sake toe ‘n ander wending begin neem toe ons sien dat die tweetjies redelik bymekaar bly (dis nou die ganse)en toe voor ons, langs die water tenk besluit meneer toe om ons te wys waartoe hy in staat is . Nie ‘Big Boy en Madam nie, maar die ander twee!Barry skryf dit af as teken om sy dominante plek in die groep te wys en dit beteken niks nie , ek bly toe maar stil want wat weet ek nou per slotte van sake van Ganse af! Nietemin bly die tweetjies naby aanmekaar.
Gister, terwyl ons nog so tee drink daar buite in die son sien ons skielik 2 ganse in die water, Nou dit is heel raar want net Madam klim in en swem die ander is te vol fiemies. Doodsbang om hul skrik te maak of te hinder sluip ons sagkens nader en sien dat dit die ander gans ‘meneer’ (soos Barry gedink het,maar wat ek oor getwyfel het,) die 2de een in die water is. Net ‘n rukkie daarna, sien ons sy beweeg na die hondehok toe. Nou die hondehok wat ons ge-erf het toe ons hier ingetrek het was altyd die bergplek vir my honderde der donderde saad bakke en plant houertjies. Die het ons sowat 3 weke gelede skoon gemak en strooi in die hok geplaas net om te sien wat gaan gebeur. Hierdie verwarde gans het telke male daarin gegaan en rond geskoffel en weer uitgeklim MAAR...gister klim sy toe weer in en bly daar sit ..ons het sagkens weer weggesluip en 2 ure later na middag tee gaan stel ons toe ondersoek in en siedaar! ‘n eier!!!!!!
Nou weet ons dat ons 2 henne het defenetief 1 mannetjie en die ander ?’n mannetjie! Wow !!!!!!dit was omtrent ‘n opgewondenheid op die werf! Altesaam het ons nou 12 eiers!
Hulle bring ons steeds daaglikse plesier en nou sal ons dop hou vir ‘n eier in die hondehok elke 2de dag en aan hou tel in madam se nes!
Ons het toe Donderdag vir die dag Athlone toe gegaan en dit was heerlik! Die son het briljant geskyn en ons het myle geloop! Inkopies gedoen , werkslangbroeke vir my en mooi somersbroeke en ‘n donkerblou trui vir werk gekoop!My ander donkerblou trui dra ek nou die afgelope 10 jaar, 3 jaar in SA en nou die 7de jaar in Ierland!
Ons het besluit om seker te maak dat die lente regtig hier is voor ons begin tuin maak en wil hierdie jaar iets anders probeer wat bietjie werk gaan verg maar ons dink dit sal die huisie mooi laat lyk! Grond sal ingery moet word en beddings langs die hoof ingang sal in die lewe geroep word!Ons beplan om meerjarige plante daarin te plant instede van honderde potte en bakke orals!
Daar is geen wilde primroses hierdie jaar nie , lyk my dit kom net elke 2de jaar uit! Miskien het die vreeslik koue ook iets daarmee te doen. Dit was beskryf as die koudste winter sedert 1965 en die koudste Februarie sedert 1996.
Ons groente tuin sal hierdie jaar goed bemes wees want ons het ons eie kompos hoop begin en met die gans mis tussendeur behoort ons beter groei waar teneem! Of ons iets gaan plant bly nog ‘n effe van ‘n twis punt!
Arnolda, daardie kas is pragtig ,en baie hoog, ek het my ingedink dat dit dalk so ‘n Belgiese/Franse 3 dele kas met groot deure en spieёls is maar nou begryp ek waarom dit moeilik was om dit die trap op of af te dra! Wat was julle gelukkig dat die ander mans toe gehelp het! Vele hande maak ligte werk!
Verjaardae is min, as daar wel iemand verjaar wat ek nie van weet nie Veels Geluk! Op die 11de verjaar Nicola Jossling in Dublin , pragtige verjaardag vir jou en ‘n suksesvolle studie jaar!
Maandag aand meld ek aan vir diens en sal my lui lekker lewe seker op ‘n einde wees. Ons begin ook met die klasse in CPR en moet 120 onderrig, en sal beteken dat
ek ook dae sal werk tussen die nagte deur!
Wat briewe betref, julle weet dat selfs net ‘n ou lyntjie waardeer word,maar aan die wat gereeld skryf , baie dankie,!
Môre is Sondag en omdat Joy dit geniet om te speel en ek geniet om te sing sal sy nog 2 Sondae die orrel speel en dan sal ek weer oor neem! Sy is hoogs verwagtend en sal een van die dae moeilik voor die orrel sit! Ons eie kleinkind se verwagte datum kom nou vinnig nader! Geslag nog onbekend ! Ek het vir eers nou bietjie opgehou brei en sal dit los vir nagwerk en verslind die een boek na die ander!tot barry se groot konsternasie! Hy sê hy kom altyd 2de!
Gerhardus baie dankie vir die pragtige stel fotos van die familie,altyd pragtig om die kinders tesien groot word. Frik en Elmarie kan ook gerus weer ‘n paar fotos stuur!
Ons dae is nou lank Son skyn helder net na 7.30 vm en saans is dit nog lig teen 6.45nm. Ons het al lankal weer vergeet van die 6-8 ure dae wat ons byna vir 4 maande beleef het!
Op die politieke front,was dit redelik stil en ek kan niks rapporteer nie net groot ellende nadat ‘n verslag bekend gemaak is van ‘n 18jarige meisie, wat onder die beskerming van die gesondheidsdienste was sedert sy 8 mnde oud was,en dood is aan oordosis drugs! Alles het intussen met haar gebeur sy het 2 kinders gehad en is van vorsterhuis na herberge gestuur,maar Dit het byna 8 jaar geneem voor die verslag bekend gemaak is en nou is alles in rep en roer! Die een beskuldig daardie een en so gaan dit aan O Ja en toe kuier OOm Zuma toe in Engeland! Hulle moes seker Mevrou Zuma gedril het om korrek optetree in die koninklike gebied! Ons harte is baie seer oor al die moorde waarvan ons lees!
Dit bring my by my wense vir almal dat julle tog asseblief versigtig moet wees, moenie laks raak met veiligheid nie, veral op die plase! Mag dit goed gaan met al die oeste! Mag dit reen waar dit nog droog is! Die jonges wat studeer ,doen dit goed, die klaar geleerdes wat nou werk, geniet die ondervinding en dit sou so lekker gewees het as ons dalk ‘n verslaggie van die 3 nuwe jong dokters kan kry. Australie, SA en Engeland!
Dit dan my weergawe van hoe sake die afgelope week verloop het in Cranleymore! tussen die voёl gesang en ,nessies wat gebou word sien ons uit na ‘n mooi en verruklike lente!
Liefde groete
Die Dunnes
To all far and wide ,
I left something out in my letter and because I thought it somewhat special I will write it in English!
During the week a grand old lady who has turned 95 received full medical clearance and passed her anual driviers licence with flying colours!
I thought that needs a mention!
Something to strive for!
keep well!
Christina
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Greetings from Ireland
Saturday 27 Feb’10
Good day to all, family and friends,
English week .
And another one bites the dust!
The iniquities of the Irish members of Parliament reminds me very much of my fatherland.
Tit for tat and out of the blue an accusation were highlighted earlier in the week about something that happened 3 years ago , the diggers found what they were looking for and the Minister of Foods and whatever had to resign because he intervened in a court case on behalf of a voter which should not have happened.
They get away with all kind of things, another MP 2 years ago was driving in a drunken stupor on the wrong side of the road and was caught red handed, 2yr suspended licence , fine of €750 and he still sits in the benches!
Today has brought some lightness in our hearts as the sun broke through the clouds and the temp is +6, after a week of continuous snow ,but wet snow ,it did not stick but wet the whole place !and temperatures just above freezing up to +3.
Officially the 1 of March is Spring day here according to the weatherman but alas, it still seems as if winter has enshrouded us for a while longer!
I have done nothing in the garden yet as it is just not worth it to spend €100’s on new plants which may only last for a short period. The daffodils and tulips all over the estate are growing well and we will have a mass of yellow whenever they start blooming!
The geese is the delight of our lives. Madam , and there is only one as far as it goes, has now laid 7 eggs, and Big boy is very protective of her, She is the one that gets into the water all the time and this morning we observed her dipping deep into the tank and pulling out the feathers on her chest with vengeance, apparently they do that in order to line the nest for the young but I can’t see the value of her doing it in the water and them drifting around on top of the water instead of in the nest. I suppose she knows what she is doing but she acts very Irish, back to front!
I can’t wait for the little ones if all goes well at about the end of March! Barry has already decided that a small part of the garden will be reserved for her if the 3 ganders give her grief!.
I am entering my last week of sick leave and look forward to going back to work, being kind of cut off from the world as we are not socialites and the church members are about the only people we speak to. The post man when he stops says ‘Hello’ but not even the neighbour is seen as all his cattle are in the shed!
I was very fortunate to go and have tea with the SA ladies , we were only four as many of them are in SA at the moment, but as always it is a great treat!
The children will be here tomorrow , surely the last visit before our grand child arrives and not like the grandparents in Exeter who knows that they will have a grand daughter we have to wait patiently for the arrival and identification of ours!
We also enjoyed what ever we could see from the Winter Olympics, but we do not have Sky or a Red button and have to be satisfied with what BBC 2 offers us! We could of course place ourselves before the computer but that is too much PT and will not work! Rugby this afternoon and we dread the outcome as the poor Irish lost badly against the French in the last match! How they will perform against the English remains to be seen!
Tomorrow , the best day of my week when the soul receives an extra helping of ‘Light food’ and Joy is still playing and I will do some singing. Last week I was caught unaware. Whenever a tune is unfamiliar to me I look into my other Hymnals and find the tune which is most well known but Joy just play what ever is in front of her and I had to listen very carefully to the tune to be able to keep up as no-one else knew the tune either!
Tomorrow I will pickle my Hymnals with me so that I have the music in front of me!
We also attended for the first time the AGM of the church with Victor 86 years old the Chairman!!! It could have been the year 1910 instead of 2010. He speaks very slowly although coherently ,but the meeting lasted 2 hours where if I was the chairperson it would have been conducted in 20 minutes. The minutes get written in a book that dates back to about 1948 and you can read back what happened many years ago! All is in there in beautiful hand writing!
Well I have a few Birthdays to mention, my friend Laurel, happy birthday to you and may all your dreams come to reality and the work you wanted to do in the prisons be blessed!
My other friend Angie has her birthday tomorrow and knowing her she is working far too hard! Hope sincerely you stop for a few moments and enjoy the day! Every thing of the very best for you as well!
Thank you for all the interesting letters and work related info especially the work that Paul from Dar Es Salaam wrote about. He has definitely surpassed out league!
I still have to say there are a few of you that shows reluctance to communicate! Just let us know that you are fine , that is all! Thank you Joy for your lovely letter and isn’t it great that the girls can know drive themselves and give you a rest!
As usual I am still waiting for 2 weddings that took place in 2009 and promised photos, but all comes to those who wait patiently!
Where-ever you go, be careful, watch your back, lock the doors, do not get indifferent to the safety of yourselves. May it rain in those parts of SA where it is still so dry and we are thankful for the rain that fell!
May the crops be good, may the eggs sell well and Hessie where are you now having you church services since the church burnt down! Aggie , I will not give up but it will be nice if you could just drop one line on the computer to say you are fine!
Time caught up with me and Barry finished his paper some time ago and I will have to attend to the preparation for tomorrow!
Keep well
Regards from the Dunnes in Cranleymore!
Good day to all, family and friends,
English week .
And another one bites the dust!
The iniquities of the Irish members of Parliament reminds me very much of my fatherland.
Tit for tat and out of the blue an accusation were highlighted earlier in the week about something that happened 3 years ago , the diggers found what they were looking for and the Minister of Foods and whatever had to resign because he intervened in a court case on behalf of a voter which should not have happened.
They get away with all kind of things, another MP 2 years ago was driving in a drunken stupor on the wrong side of the road and was caught red handed, 2yr suspended licence , fine of €750 and he still sits in the benches!
Today has brought some lightness in our hearts as the sun broke through the clouds and the temp is +6, after a week of continuous snow ,but wet snow ,it did not stick but wet the whole place !and temperatures just above freezing up to +3.
Officially the 1 of March is Spring day here according to the weatherman but alas, it still seems as if winter has enshrouded us for a while longer!
I have done nothing in the garden yet as it is just not worth it to spend €100’s on new plants which may only last for a short period. The daffodils and tulips all over the estate are growing well and we will have a mass of yellow whenever they start blooming!
The geese is the delight of our lives. Madam , and there is only one as far as it goes, has now laid 7 eggs, and Big boy is very protective of her, She is the one that gets into the water all the time and this morning we observed her dipping deep into the tank and pulling out the feathers on her chest with vengeance, apparently they do that in order to line the nest for the young but I can’t see the value of her doing it in the water and them drifting around on top of the water instead of in the nest. I suppose she knows what she is doing but she acts very Irish, back to front!
I can’t wait for the little ones if all goes well at about the end of March! Barry has already decided that a small part of the garden will be reserved for her if the 3 ganders give her grief!.
I am entering my last week of sick leave and look forward to going back to work, being kind of cut off from the world as we are not socialites and the church members are about the only people we speak to. The post man when he stops says ‘Hello’ but not even the neighbour is seen as all his cattle are in the shed!
I was very fortunate to go and have tea with the SA ladies , we were only four as many of them are in SA at the moment, but as always it is a great treat!
The children will be here tomorrow , surely the last visit before our grand child arrives and not like the grandparents in Exeter who knows that they will have a grand daughter we have to wait patiently for the arrival and identification of ours!
We also enjoyed what ever we could see from the Winter Olympics, but we do not have Sky or a Red button and have to be satisfied with what BBC 2 offers us! We could of course place ourselves before the computer but that is too much PT and will not work! Rugby this afternoon and we dread the outcome as the poor Irish lost badly against the French in the last match! How they will perform against the English remains to be seen!
Tomorrow , the best day of my week when the soul receives an extra helping of ‘Light food’ and Joy is still playing and I will do some singing. Last week I was caught unaware. Whenever a tune is unfamiliar to me I look into my other Hymnals and find the tune which is most well known but Joy just play what ever is in front of her and I had to listen very carefully to the tune to be able to keep up as no-one else knew the tune either!
Tomorrow I will pickle my Hymnals with me so that I have the music in front of me!
We also attended for the first time the AGM of the church with Victor 86 years old the Chairman!!! It could have been the year 1910 instead of 2010. He speaks very slowly although coherently ,but the meeting lasted 2 hours where if I was the chairperson it would have been conducted in 20 minutes. The minutes get written in a book that dates back to about 1948 and you can read back what happened many years ago! All is in there in beautiful hand writing!
Well I have a few Birthdays to mention, my friend Laurel, happy birthday to you and may all your dreams come to reality and the work you wanted to do in the prisons be blessed!
My other friend Angie has her birthday tomorrow and knowing her she is working far too hard! Hope sincerely you stop for a few moments and enjoy the day! Every thing of the very best for you as well!
Thank you for all the interesting letters and work related info especially the work that Paul from Dar Es Salaam wrote about. He has definitely surpassed out league!
I still have to say there are a few of you that shows reluctance to communicate! Just let us know that you are fine , that is all! Thank you Joy for your lovely letter and isn’t it great that the girls can know drive themselves and give you a rest!
As usual I am still waiting for 2 weddings that took place in 2009 and promised photos, but all comes to those who wait patiently!
Where-ever you go, be careful, watch your back, lock the doors, do not get indifferent to the safety of yourselves. May it rain in those parts of SA where it is still so dry and we are thankful for the rain that fell!
May the crops be good, may the eggs sell well and Hessie where are you now having you church services since the church burnt down! Aggie , I will not give up but it will be nice if you could just drop one line on the computer to say you are fine!
Time caught up with me and Barry finished his paper some time ago and I will have to attend to the preparation for tomorrow!
Keep well
Regards from the Dunnes in Cranleymore!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Groete vanuit 'n wit gevriesde Ierland
20 Februarie 2010
Goeie dag allemaal, familie en vriende,
Net om julle op hoogte van sake t e hou dit is net so voor 12middag en dit is alles nog gevries daarbuite -1 en die wêreld is wit van die ryp. Ongelooflik dat die dae so verskillend van mekaar kan wees. Vroeёr in die week was dit salig! Die son het warm geskyn, geen wind nie , die lug so blou en ons het oggend tee omtrent 11h30 buite gedrink en soos dassies in die son gebak! Vandag bibber ons , die vuur brand reeds en my vingers is stokstyf van die koue,ons sal nie eers die voete bespreek nie!
Ek is heelwat beter en voel goed daardie knaende pyn van die afgelope 6 maande is weg!!!! Dus dit was wel geslaagd!
Ons ganse het ons hierdie week groot plesier verskaf. Eerstens het Barry 2 eiers , allamintig groot in die strooi gekry wat hy weekliks verander ,ons was buite onsself van opgewondenheid . Hy het na die skoonmaak proses en nuwe strooi twee plekke voorberei vir slaap en nes skop. Die volgende dag was daar niks maar 2dae later volg die 3de eier! Daarmee saam het die gans met die dun bene soms tot 4x ‘n dag ‘n swemmetjie geneem en dit so geniet, die ander drie (wat ek besluit het is henne) kyk ‘hom’ met verdwasing aan! Plaas dat hulle ook inspring staan hulle net op die rand en kyk! Barry gooi die brood nou in die water om hulle ook in te lok maar hulle is veels te slim wag tot die brood by hulle verby kom en gryp ‘n stuk! Nou ja baie opgelees en besluit ons gaan natuur sy gang laat gaan . Daar is dus defenitief 1 hen tussen die 4, vrugbaarheid sal so in omtren 5 weke ‘n werklikheid word want sy gaan eers sit as sy klaar gelê het! Dit neem soms 14 dae en dan is die broei tyd 32-36 dae of selfs meer. Dit is so vrek koud dat ek nie kan glo dat daar enigiets van sal kom nie maar aan die anderkant as ons self ‘n broeikas gehad het sou ons die eiers in die deur van die yskas moes hou tot dit tyd was vir ontkieming! Ons laat maar al die dinge aan die 4 ganse oor! Dis pragtig om te sien hoe ‘hy’ swem en duik en die stukkies ys op die water gulsig eet!
Plotiek het hier omtrent ‘n hoogtepunt bereik Verlede week het die mees bekendste radio en TV ekonoom , wat 9 mnde gelede lang verlof geneem het en in‘n oposisie onderverkiesing gewen het en parlement toe is, uit die party bedank, kon seker nie so laag kruip soos hy moes nie en kon nie ‘n kans kry om sy goeie kennis en idees die lewe te laat sien nie , dit was net oor toe die volgende senaats lid uit die koalisie party bedank want sy het nie haar beloofde pos in die Europese kabinet gekry nie en sy was woedend. Sy het haar misnoee omtrent haar party se ‘grovveling’ tot die leier party duidlik aan die lig laat kom.
Ons was net daaroor toe die oposisie weer iets in die hande kry en toe hardloop hulle omtrent van die veld af. Politiek is duidelik nie ‘n plek waar eerlike mense hulle in moet bevind nie. Die Minister van Verdediging het verlede jaar met ‘n onderverkiesing sy mond verby gepraat teenoor ‘n joernalis – alles op band-en die oposisie wat gestaan het beswadder met onwaarhede oor ‘n ‘brothel’ wat hy glo hanteer. Hofsaak ens en toe gee hierdie Min van Verdediging( self ‘n barrister’prokoreur’) ‘n vals verklaring aan die hooggeregshof en ten spyte van ‘n mosie van volslae vertroue , (nadat hy gesê het, hy het bietjie vergeet wat hy gesê het)moes hy uiteindelik na 48 uur die gees gaf en bedank! Nou het ons geen Min van Verdediging nie en alles hang in die lug!!!So word ons daagliks met ‘soupies’ in werklikheid verras!
Aan die anderkant van die wereld gebruik die Israeliete almal se paspoorte, 5 Ierse ouens is nou Israelies sonder hul wete om ‘n ander Hamas uit die weg te ruim, en almal is in oproer!
Lewe gaan andersins rustig sy gang! Die krokusse staan vriendelik met blommetjies na bo as die son skyn , baie mooi , die vinke eet al die uitloopsels aan die bome af en as die son in Ierland skyn is dit hemel op aarde!
Ai dis darem lekker om die briewe te lees ook van daarver uit Kanada, Nine jy kan gerus weer skryf en ‘n voorbeeld wees vir die ander niggies en nefies!
Ek het verjaardae in my boekie Die oudste eerste, Garth Veels geluk met jou verjaardag môre as ek dit reg het , mag die kas nie indring op jou vreugde van die dag en jaar nie!. Renate Röhrs in Stellenbosch! Veels Geluk met jou verjaardag,ook môre. Hoop van harte dat diit ‘n pragtige en vreugdevolle jaar vir jou sal wees!
Rozanna Kruger verjaar die 25ste Veels geluk Rozanna, ons bede is dat dit ‘n wonderlike jaar vir jou gaan wees!
Elke dag bring ek spesiaal onse tante Poppie op aan ons hemelse Vader vir genade en ‘n pynvrye dag! Baie liefde groete aan haar!
Barry is byna klaar sy koerant gelees en dus is my vrye tyd ook nou daarmee heen! Ek het nog 2 weke siek verlof en sal dan weer dapper die bul by die horings gryp en begin werk!
Die ellende van onderbetaling en werkstop is vir eers van die baan en sal weer in April bespreek word!Ons gaan dus aan met korting van 18%.
Haya ek dink jy moet ‘n medalje kry vir jou harde werk, Is dit nie snaaks nie , dit wil vir my voorkom asof die vrouens in die familie almal harder werk na hulle 50 geword het as van te vore! Wees tog versigtig in die lang tog van Cullinan na Reitz en ek hoop dat die wat die mis ontvang hulle sterre dank en dat die wat die eiers koop weet dat dit met groot moeite aangery is! Bid en hoop dat die behandeling vir jou voete ‘n positiewe effek sal hê! Wat van Botoks vir die kussingkies!
Ek groet vanuit ‘n gevriesde eiland waar geen blad of loof sy kleur vandag kan herken nie!
Die wat ver ry wees tog baie versigtig, die wat tuis bly , sluit die deure , hou die kettings op as jy die deur oopmaak, Voer die groot honde goed sodat hulle sterk kake het ! kry liewer leeus!
Mag die oeste en plant gewasse goed groei , mag dit reen waar dit nog baie droog is.
More is Sondag en ek is op ‘sing’ diens dus speel Joy en ek geniet elke moment van saam sing! Ons eie predikant is weer terug en ons sielsvoedel sal weer aangevul word! Ek wonder waar kry Tiger Woods sy siele voedsel vandaan?, ‘n dooie Buddah!???????????Geen wonder hy is die kluts kwyt nie!
Baie liefde groete uit ‘n wit Ierland
Die Dunnes
Goeie dag allemaal, familie en vriende,
Net om julle op hoogte van sake t e hou dit is net so voor 12middag en dit is alles nog gevries daarbuite -1 en die wêreld is wit van die ryp. Ongelooflik dat die dae so verskillend van mekaar kan wees. Vroeёr in die week was dit salig! Die son het warm geskyn, geen wind nie , die lug so blou en ons het oggend tee omtrent 11h30 buite gedrink en soos dassies in die son gebak! Vandag bibber ons , die vuur brand reeds en my vingers is stokstyf van die koue,ons sal nie eers die voete bespreek nie!
Ek is heelwat beter en voel goed daardie knaende pyn van die afgelope 6 maande is weg!!!! Dus dit was wel geslaagd!
Ons ganse het ons hierdie week groot plesier verskaf. Eerstens het Barry 2 eiers , allamintig groot in die strooi gekry wat hy weekliks verander ,ons was buite onsself van opgewondenheid . Hy het na die skoonmaak proses en nuwe strooi twee plekke voorberei vir slaap en nes skop. Die volgende dag was daar niks maar 2dae later volg die 3de eier! Daarmee saam het die gans met die dun bene soms tot 4x ‘n dag ‘n swemmetjie geneem en dit so geniet, die ander drie (wat ek besluit het is henne) kyk ‘hom’ met verdwasing aan! Plaas dat hulle ook inspring staan hulle net op die rand en kyk! Barry gooi die brood nou in die water om hulle ook in te lok maar hulle is veels te slim wag tot die brood by hulle verby kom en gryp ‘n stuk! Nou ja baie opgelees en besluit ons gaan natuur sy gang laat gaan . Daar is dus defenitief 1 hen tussen die 4, vrugbaarheid sal so in omtren 5 weke ‘n werklikheid word want sy gaan eers sit as sy klaar gelê het! Dit neem soms 14 dae en dan is die broei tyd 32-36 dae of selfs meer. Dit is so vrek koud dat ek nie kan glo dat daar enigiets van sal kom nie maar aan die anderkant as ons self ‘n broeikas gehad het sou ons die eiers in die deur van die yskas moes hou tot dit tyd was vir ontkieming! Ons laat maar al die dinge aan die 4 ganse oor! Dis pragtig om te sien hoe ‘hy’ swem en duik en die stukkies ys op die water gulsig eet!
Plotiek het hier omtrent ‘n hoogtepunt bereik Verlede week het die mees bekendste radio en TV ekonoom , wat 9 mnde gelede lang verlof geneem het en in‘n oposisie onderverkiesing gewen het en parlement toe is, uit die party bedank, kon seker nie so laag kruip soos hy moes nie en kon nie ‘n kans kry om sy goeie kennis en idees die lewe te laat sien nie , dit was net oor toe die volgende senaats lid uit die koalisie party bedank want sy het nie haar beloofde pos in die Europese kabinet gekry nie en sy was woedend. Sy het haar misnoee omtrent haar party se ‘grovveling’ tot die leier party duidlik aan die lig laat kom.
Ons was net daaroor toe die oposisie weer iets in die hande kry en toe hardloop hulle omtrent van die veld af. Politiek is duidelik nie ‘n plek waar eerlike mense hulle in moet bevind nie. Die Minister van Verdediging het verlede jaar met ‘n onderverkiesing sy mond verby gepraat teenoor ‘n joernalis – alles op band-en die oposisie wat gestaan het beswadder met onwaarhede oor ‘n ‘brothel’ wat hy glo hanteer. Hofsaak ens en toe gee hierdie Min van Verdediging( self ‘n barrister’prokoreur’) ‘n vals verklaring aan die hooggeregshof en ten spyte van ‘n mosie van volslae vertroue , (nadat hy gesê het, hy het bietjie vergeet wat hy gesê het)moes hy uiteindelik na 48 uur die gees gaf en bedank! Nou het ons geen Min van Verdediging nie en alles hang in die lug!!!So word ons daagliks met ‘soupies’ in werklikheid verras!
Aan die anderkant van die wereld gebruik die Israeliete almal se paspoorte, 5 Ierse ouens is nou Israelies sonder hul wete om ‘n ander Hamas uit die weg te ruim, en almal is in oproer!
Lewe gaan andersins rustig sy gang! Die krokusse staan vriendelik met blommetjies na bo as die son skyn , baie mooi , die vinke eet al die uitloopsels aan die bome af en as die son in Ierland skyn is dit hemel op aarde!
Ai dis darem lekker om die briewe te lees ook van daarver uit Kanada, Nine jy kan gerus weer skryf en ‘n voorbeeld wees vir die ander niggies en nefies!
Ek het verjaardae in my boekie Die oudste eerste, Garth Veels geluk met jou verjaardag môre as ek dit reg het , mag die kas nie indring op jou vreugde van die dag en jaar nie!. Renate Röhrs in Stellenbosch! Veels Geluk met jou verjaardag,ook môre. Hoop van harte dat diit ‘n pragtige en vreugdevolle jaar vir jou sal wees!
Rozanna Kruger verjaar die 25ste Veels geluk Rozanna, ons bede is dat dit ‘n wonderlike jaar vir jou gaan wees!
Elke dag bring ek spesiaal onse tante Poppie op aan ons hemelse Vader vir genade en ‘n pynvrye dag! Baie liefde groete aan haar!
Barry is byna klaar sy koerant gelees en dus is my vrye tyd ook nou daarmee heen! Ek het nog 2 weke siek verlof en sal dan weer dapper die bul by die horings gryp en begin werk!
Die ellende van onderbetaling en werkstop is vir eers van die baan en sal weer in April bespreek word!Ons gaan dus aan met korting van 18%.
Haya ek dink jy moet ‘n medalje kry vir jou harde werk, Is dit nie snaaks nie , dit wil vir my voorkom asof die vrouens in die familie almal harder werk na hulle 50 geword het as van te vore! Wees tog versigtig in die lang tog van Cullinan na Reitz en ek hoop dat die wat die mis ontvang hulle sterre dank en dat die wat die eiers koop weet dat dit met groot moeite aangery is! Bid en hoop dat die behandeling vir jou voete ‘n positiewe effek sal hê! Wat van Botoks vir die kussingkies!
Ek groet vanuit ‘n gevriesde eiland waar geen blad of loof sy kleur vandag kan herken nie!
Die wat ver ry wees tog baie versigtig, die wat tuis bly , sluit die deure , hou die kettings op as jy die deur oopmaak, Voer die groot honde goed sodat hulle sterk kake het ! kry liewer leeus!
Mag die oeste en plant gewasse goed groei , mag dit reen waar dit nog baie droog is.
More is Sondag en ek is op ‘sing’ diens dus speel Joy en ek geniet elke moment van saam sing! Ons eie predikant is weer terug en ons sielsvoedel sal weer aangevul word! Ek wonder waar kry Tiger Woods sy siele voedsel vandaan?, ‘n dooie Buddah!???????????Geen wonder hy is die kluts kwyt nie!
Baie liefde groete uit ‘n wit Ierland
Die Dunnes
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Greetings from a slow awakening Ireland
Saturday 13th Feb ‘10
Good day to all, family and friends,
I am now in my 9th day after surgery and recovery is smooth and good, The problematic lungs are taking air in much easier and I can walk fairly fast now without huffing and puffing. The introduction of air in the abdominal cavity and in the upper quadrant of the thorax causes my right lung to object and did not want to expand well after the episode but with exercises and correct breathing I am flying again!
Just back from our morning walk to the geese and inspection of the garden. Nature is so wonderful to thing after all the snow and tremendous cold the crocuses are blooming and the daffodils and tulips are growing well. The fact that have leaves on any trees in summer is a miracle as the little birds sit and pick every new bud off, Must be very nutritious other wise I cannot see the value of it.
With my hospitalization the time to prune the roses went by and now I cannot get it over my heart to cut off all the new growth you see and everything looks so happy. So I decided to let it be and see what happens! Most of the roses are suppose to be climbing in any case.
One thing is for sure we will not have to cut the grass in the lower camp as our 4 lawnmowers have done it all ready!
Yesterday the temperature went up to 9 degrees but a very cold northerly wind blew and you could not stay outside for longer than 10 minutes but today the temp is 3 and no wind and it is so lovely outside some hazy sunshine but not much, but the day so much more pleasant!
I went back to work for 10 days before my operation and enjoyed every minute of it but was also very disillusioned about the talk of cutting the hourly rate of the nurses and add another 5% to the 18% cut already in existence. I would be better off working as a carer than as a nurse! But in spite off that we are still well paid and we should not moan at all!
Apart from Valentine’s Day tomorrow and the tremendous hype about red roses and chocolates I have to wish Phillip in Dublin a very Happy Birthday for yesterday, Barry’s sister in law in England, Brenda Happy Birthday with her 70th birthday. Today! Hope that you both enjoyed a good day!
Thank you Adelbert for the lovely photos 1st of my tante Poppie and the children and grand children I do enjoy the photos so much and appreciate it that you always include my dear tante Poppie in it, I can see that she is very frail and pray that the Lord will be with her every day she spends still between the living!.
The northern hemisphere students are preparing for their leaving cert and just completed the after January exams. Hope all went well. Nine (jnr) in Canada every young creature wants to fly away from home as soon as possible but you prefer to stay home there must be something very good there or you are being spoilt by mom and dad. Hope that your trip with Granny Nine will be a wonderful experience. You never write a letter or anything and know so little about you, would love you to tell me more about you and you are not the only one I do send my letters to all the grand children of whom I have email addresses but never hear from them! I also know that young people do not have time for writing but just a hello and a nice photo now and again will be appreciated!
To all the other who so diligently write week after week, do know that I live to read every word written, with great enthusiasm and interest!
Tomorrow Joy will do the honours at church and I will only sing!
That is if I have enough breath!
Today Ireland plays France and excitement is high, Rugby away from home is always difficult as I believe the players play as good as the support is! Even if they play bad!
Hoppe sincerely that draught part of SA and other places get rain! Keep the doors locked, be very careful how you do things and watch where you put your feet!
Everything of the best for the farmers with crops and livestock, may it go well!
Warmish(more cold than warm) cloudy, and intermittent sunshine regards from us in Cranleymore!
The Dunnes
Good day to all, family and friends,
I am now in my 9th day after surgery and recovery is smooth and good, The problematic lungs are taking air in much easier and I can walk fairly fast now without huffing and puffing. The introduction of air in the abdominal cavity and in the upper quadrant of the thorax causes my right lung to object and did not want to expand well after the episode but with exercises and correct breathing I am flying again!
Just back from our morning walk to the geese and inspection of the garden. Nature is so wonderful to thing after all the snow and tremendous cold the crocuses are blooming and the daffodils and tulips are growing well. The fact that have leaves on any trees in summer is a miracle as the little birds sit and pick every new bud off, Must be very nutritious other wise I cannot see the value of it.
With my hospitalization the time to prune the roses went by and now I cannot get it over my heart to cut off all the new growth you see and everything looks so happy. So I decided to let it be and see what happens! Most of the roses are suppose to be climbing in any case.
One thing is for sure we will not have to cut the grass in the lower camp as our 4 lawnmowers have done it all ready!
Yesterday the temperature went up to 9 degrees but a very cold northerly wind blew and you could not stay outside for longer than 10 minutes but today the temp is 3 and no wind and it is so lovely outside some hazy sunshine but not much, but the day so much more pleasant!
I went back to work for 10 days before my operation and enjoyed every minute of it but was also very disillusioned about the talk of cutting the hourly rate of the nurses and add another 5% to the 18% cut already in existence. I would be better off working as a carer than as a nurse! But in spite off that we are still well paid and we should not moan at all!
Apart from Valentine’s Day tomorrow and the tremendous hype about red roses and chocolates I have to wish Phillip in Dublin a very Happy Birthday for yesterday, Barry’s sister in law in England, Brenda Happy Birthday with her 70th birthday. Today! Hope that you both enjoyed a good day!
Thank you Adelbert for the lovely photos 1st of my tante Poppie and the children and grand children I do enjoy the photos so much and appreciate it that you always include my dear tante Poppie in it, I can see that she is very frail and pray that the Lord will be with her every day she spends still between the living!.
The northern hemisphere students are preparing for their leaving cert and just completed the after January exams. Hope all went well. Nine (jnr) in Canada every young creature wants to fly away from home as soon as possible but you prefer to stay home there must be something very good there or you are being spoilt by mom and dad. Hope that your trip with Granny Nine will be a wonderful experience. You never write a letter or anything and know so little about you, would love you to tell me more about you and you are not the only one I do send my letters to all the grand children of whom I have email addresses but never hear from them! I also know that young people do not have time for writing but just a hello and a nice photo now and again will be appreciated!
To all the other who so diligently write week after week, do know that I live to read every word written, with great enthusiasm and interest!
Tomorrow Joy will do the honours at church and I will only sing!
That is if I have enough breath!
Today Ireland plays France and excitement is high, Rugby away from home is always difficult as I believe the players play as good as the support is! Even if they play bad!
Hoppe sincerely that draught part of SA and other places get rain! Keep the doors locked, be very careful how you do things and watch where you put your feet!
Everything of the best for the farmers with crops and livestock, may it go well!
Warmish(more cold than warm) cloudy, and intermittent sunshine regards from us in Cranleymore!
The Dunnes
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Winter in Ierland
Maandagaand 4 Jan ‘10
hierdie briefie het nie uitgegaan nie en ek probeer weer!
Goeie naand/dag allemaal!
Hoop van harte dat julle almal veilig tuis is en die wat nog moet reis met welslae na huis sal vaar!
Hier bibber ons nog steeds , mensig maar dit was koud, is koud en gaan nog koud bly!
Die sneeu van 2 weke gelede het nog nie alles gesmelt nie en die -8 temperature veroorsaak dat alles oor vries en baie gevaarlik is!
Gerlof en Sandra veels geluk met die heerlike nuus van ‘Oupa/Ouma’skap!
Ook bly dat julle na alles tog wel weggekom het en weer veilig tuis is!
Weet niks van niemand af nie. Hester se pos komterug en die ander het omtrent almal van die aarde afgeval wat my betref!
Nine ,ek wonder so baie of jy ooit ‘n brief van my kry of lees, ek vra vrae maar kry nooit ‘n antwoord nie, hoe gaan dit met jou?
Ons het baie rustig verkeer gedurende die feesgety vanwee die erge weersomstandighede! Dit is baie gevaarlik om hier sonder die regte wiele en gereedskap die gladde paaie aantepak!
Die ganse is pragtig, hulle is groot en oulik en hou van geselskap!
Die res van Ierland se voёls woon in ons agterplaas en die rotte familie is sekerlik uitgedelg na hulle spesiale gekonsentreerde rotkos gekry het.
Hulle moes hulle knuppeldik geёet het en toe verkluim het!
Die vuur brand die hele dag en ons loop soms buite ‘n draai vir bloed sirkulasie kom totaal verkluimd terug in die huis,ten spyte van dik jasse, maar anders beweeg ons maar min, Speel baie scrabble ,lees en kyk na die boksie o ja brei ook!!
Ek sien die GP môre en sal hoor wat die resultaat van die laaste x-strale was en hoor of ek werk toe sal kan gaan of moet wag om die sjirurg te sien!
In hierdie land wat daar meer water is as breins sit ons toe sonder water vir 2 dae want die waterpype het gebars en die reservoir leeggeloop! Hahaha! Gelukkig is alles nou herstel en ons kan weer stort!
Die is werklik net ‘n kort briefie en ek hoop van harte dat jul almal die feesgety geniet het, die samesyn van familie en vriende!
Mag dit reen waar dit droog is, mag al die oeste van die lande goed wees!
Wees altyd versigitg en sluit die deure!
Baie groete aan almal.
Bibberende groete vanuit Cranleymore!
Die Dunnes
hierdie briefie het nie uitgegaan nie en ek probeer weer!
Goeie naand/dag allemaal!
Hoop van harte dat julle almal veilig tuis is en die wat nog moet reis met welslae na huis sal vaar!
Hier bibber ons nog steeds , mensig maar dit was koud, is koud en gaan nog koud bly!
Die sneeu van 2 weke gelede het nog nie alles gesmelt nie en die -8 temperature veroorsaak dat alles oor vries en baie gevaarlik is!
Gerlof en Sandra veels geluk met die heerlike nuus van ‘Oupa/Ouma’skap!
Ook bly dat julle na alles tog wel weggekom het en weer veilig tuis is!
Weet niks van niemand af nie. Hester se pos komterug en die ander het omtrent almal van die aarde afgeval wat my betref!
Nine ,ek wonder so baie of jy ooit ‘n brief van my kry of lees, ek vra vrae maar kry nooit ‘n antwoord nie, hoe gaan dit met jou?
Ons het baie rustig verkeer gedurende die feesgety vanwee die erge weersomstandighede! Dit is baie gevaarlik om hier sonder die regte wiele en gereedskap die gladde paaie aantepak!
Die ganse is pragtig, hulle is groot en oulik en hou van geselskap!
Die res van Ierland se voёls woon in ons agterplaas en die rotte familie is sekerlik uitgedelg na hulle spesiale gekonsentreerde rotkos gekry het.
Hulle moes hulle knuppeldik geёet het en toe verkluim het!
Die vuur brand die hele dag en ons loop soms buite ‘n draai vir bloed sirkulasie kom totaal verkluimd terug in die huis,ten spyte van dik jasse, maar anders beweeg ons maar min, Speel baie scrabble ,lees en kyk na die boksie o ja brei ook!!
Ek sien die GP môre en sal hoor wat die resultaat van die laaste x-strale was en hoor of ek werk toe sal kan gaan of moet wag om die sjirurg te sien!
In hierdie land wat daar meer water is as breins sit ons toe sonder water vir 2 dae want die waterpype het gebars en die reservoir leeggeloop! Hahaha! Gelukkig is alles nou herstel en ons kan weer stort!
Die is werklik net ‘n kort briefie en ek hoop van harte dat jul almal die feesgety geniet het, die samesyn van familie en vriende!
Mag dit reen waar dit droog is, mag al die oeste van die lande goed wees!
Wees altyd versigitg en sluit die deure!
Baie groete aan almal.
Bibberende groete vanuit Cranleymore!
Die Dunnes
Winter in Ireland
9 January ‘10
Good day to all, family and friends!
It started to snow with us for the so many-eth time since 21 of December and it has also melted as many times as well and with temperatures now falling to -10 and -12 we are experiencing the coldest spell in 50 years. We feel for our neighbours in England and Scotland where temperatures dropped to -21!!!!! We are not at all equipped to cope with weather extremes like this and there is not enough salt or grit to cover the roads and the cars do not have the correct tyres and even the 4x4’s are struggling to cope!
In the mean time the southern hemisphere are warm and praying for rain is some districts! I must say I do not mind the cold, snow and even the ice, as long as it is dry! The problems starts when it is wet and cold, I started to suffer from cold feet here in my senior years and especially the left foot seems to be frozen all the time so I sit with a hot water bottle between my feet most of the day. At night my electric blanket warms up the bed, and then get switched off when we get in!
The fire gets an enormous big lump of wood on it when we go to bed and that burns slowly to early morning and Barry can start the fire with the ambers from yesterday!
I am still at home and I got the feeling that the hospital is glad I am not there as work has not picked up yet and the night staff have to do shifts in the old age home and I really do not feel up to it yet!
I am to see the surgeon on Tuesday and will know then where I stand in relation to Lap Coli (key hole surgery) soon or in the future. Every now and then I get a reminder that something is not kosher and hope to get through the day or night without having to go back to hospital A&E.
The 1st Minister in Northern Ireland‘s wife has brought the family is disrepute and had a love affair with a 19yr old. She lost the plot that is for sure! What is so tragic is that every news paper and every TV station takes great delight in highlighting every little detail of the affair.
Our own little island are still in the red and will be for some time as they keep on borrowing money and when they will be able to pay it back , no one knows!
Patrick(Finbarr) and Amanda are snowed in and have not been going about as the roads are too dangerous.
He started his own company ‘consulting’ “Brand Experiences Ltd” and can work from home which helps tremendously. Amanda‘s boss sends the driver to pick her up with a 4x4, it is such a worry otherwise. They are both very well and we can’t wait for our grand child to be born.
Birthday wishes to Corli who is 1 year old today as well as to Mari-Janke who has her birthday on the 16th. I have no other birthdays in my book and if I miss one please enjoy in the good wishes for the best year ever!
Thank you to all who so wonderfully keep in touch. It is heart-rending and lovely to know that you are all well. Thank you for all the lovely photos via email and per post. For the reading matter and news! Hope sincerely that we will see some pictures of the wedding that took place on 18th Dec.
I would love to know what all the young people are studying at university as the youngest of that group of grand children are now all out of school. I would like to know the end exams went. The news says that only 60% of matriculants passed. Congratulations to Retha with her matric student’s results, something to celebrate in the educational climate the country finds itself!
Hope that the young Doctor working in Melbourne will give report of his progress and the younger brother now in Brisbane by himself!
How is the young man in Hoedspruit? There are so many of you that I cannot keep track. Hessie& Attie and their 2 young women, Oubaas and Gerda with their 2, Gerlof with their children all out of the house as well. Kathleen and Tim, and all her experiences working in SA!
The geese are now like children, they run towards us when we enter the lower field waiting for a treat, usually a bit of bread. They love company but stay indoors when it is so cold. Barry has to take water from the house for them as all the water pipes are continually frozen
The wild bird population is large with visitors from Scandinavia, and the Arctic. It is fascinating to watch them and how they have a pecking order, colour changes in the winter and definite characteristics.
We have a visiting preacher from Kilkenny tomorrow and I was left to choose the Hymns and have kept it real reformed! Still the best day of the week!
I will greet you with warmth, remember to lock the doors, watch every step you take, drive safely! May it rain where it is dry and may every crop on the lands be fruitful and market prices good!
Love to hear from you all
The Dunnes in a snow covered Cranleymore!
Good day to all, family and friends!
It started to snow with us for the so many-eth time since 21 of December and it has also melted as many times as well and with temperatures now falling to -10 and -12 we are experiencing the coldest spell in 50 years. We feel for our neighbours in England and Scotland where temperatures dropped to -21!!!!! We are not at all equipped to cope with weather extremes like this and there is not enough salt or grit to cover the roads and the cars do not have the correct tyres and even the 4x4’s are struggling to cope!
In the mean time the southern hemisphere are warm and praying for rain is some districts! I must say I do not mind the cold, snow and even the ice, as long as it is dry! The problems starts when it is wet and cold, I started to suffer from cold feet here in my senior years and especially the left foot seems to be frozen all the time so I sit with a hot water bottle between my feet most of the day. At night my electric blanket warms up the bed, and then get switched off when we get in!
The fire gets an enormous big lump of wood on it when we go to bed and that burns slowly to early morning and Barry can start the fire with the ambers from yesterday!
I am still at home and I got the feeling that the hospital is glad I am not there as work has not picked up yet and the night staff have to do shifts in the old age home and I really do not feel up to it yet!
I am to see the surgeon on Tuesday and will know then where I stand in relation to Lap Coli (key hole surgery) soon or in the future. Every now and then I get a reminder that something is not kosher and hope to get through the day or night without having to go back to hospital A&E.
The 1st Minister in Northern Ireland‘s wife has brought the family is disrepute and had a love affair with a 19yr old. She lost the plot that is for sure! What is so tragic is that every news paper and every TV station takes great delight in highlighting every little detail of the affair.
Our own little island are still in the red and will be for some time as they keep on borrowing money and when they will be able to pay it back , no one knows!
Patrick(Finbarr) and Amanda are snowed in and have not been going about as the roads are too dangerous.
He started his own company ‘consulting’ “Brand Experiences Ltd” and can work from home which helps tremendously. Amanda‘s boss sends the driver to pick her up with a 4x4, it is such a worry otherwise. They are both very well and we can’t wait for our grand child to be born.
Birthday wishes to Corli who is 1 year old today as well as to Mari-Janke who has her birthday on the 16th. I have no other birthdays in my book and if I miss one please enjoy in the good wishes for the best year ever!
Thank you to all who so wonderfully keep in touch. It is heart-rending and lovely to know that you are all well. Thank you for all the lovely photos via email and per post. For the reading matter and news! Hope sincerely that we will see some pictures of the wedding that took place on 18th Dec.
I would love to know what all the young people are studying at university as the youngest of that group of grand children are now all out of school. I would like to know the end exams went. The news says that only 60% of matriculants passed. Congratulations to Retha with her matric student’s results, something to celebrate in the educational climate the country finds itself!
Hope that the young Doctor working in Melbourne will give report of his progress and the younger brother now in Brisbane by himself!
How is the young man in Hoedspruit? There are so many of you that I cannot keep track. Hessie& Attie and their 2 young women, Oubaas and Gerda with their 2, Gerlof with their children all out of the house as well. Kathleen and Tim, and all her experiences working in SA!
The geese are now like children, they run towards us when we enter the lower field waiting for a treat, usually a bit of bread. They love company but stay indoors when it is so cold. Barry has to take water from the house for them as all the water pipes are continually frozen
The wild bird population is large with visitors from Scandinavia, and the Arctic. It is fascinating to watch them and how they have a pecking order, colour changes in the winter and definite characteristics.
We have a visiting preacher from Kilkenny tomorrow and I was left to choose the Hymns and have kept it real reformed! Still the best day of the week!
I will greet you with warmth, remember to lock the doors, watch every step you take, drive safely! May it rain where it is dry and may every crop on the lands be fruitful and market prices good!
Love to hear from you all
The Dunnes in a snow covered Cranleymore!
Greetings from a melting Ireland
16 Januarie 2010
Goeie dag aan almal, familie en vriende,
Die sneeu het gesmelt, die temperatuur het gestyg ,gister was dit 11 grade teen 2nm, ongelooflik na ‘n maand van vriesende omstandighede. Gister het die wind met mening gewaai en dit het gereёn asof die aarde hier in Ierland nie ‘n druppel water gesien het vir maande nie. Oral staan die lande onder water en dele van die kanale en mere is nog steeds geys! Ons kla nie want elke gogga en virus moes vrek in die gure omstandighede!
Die koue het ook groot ellendes meegebring, gebarste water pype en baie plekke sit sonder water of net sekere tye van die dag water in die krane! Dublin is sleg getref !
‘n Man wat op pad was na seun in Dublin van die suide het bleikbaar gegly voor sy huis en niemand het geweet nie en hy is dood onder ‘n kombers van sneeu! Na 10 dae het die bure begin bekommerd raak en toe die Garda daar opdaag sien hulle ‘n hand vanonder die sneeu uitsteek! OOk die verskriklike aardbewing in Haiti, wat is ons tog bevoorregt om niks tekort te hê nie, die armoede en ellende van squatter woonbuurte is soveel meer as in beter bedeelde dele!
Daar is so baie werk wat nou op my wag in die tuin, al die verwoeste blommetjies moes geknyp word al die dooie blare weggesny word en met die lang koue spel het die groei van die affodille en tulpe natuurlik tot stilstand gekom en begin nou eers weer beweeg! Die 1st Feb is snoei dag en daardie week sal ek regtig my deel moet bydra!
Die ganse is nog steeds ‘n groot plesier. Hulle is so vet soos ‘n gans wat reg is vir ‘n fees en sal, noudat die gras weer sigbaar is op diёet geplaas moet word want anders is hulle te swaar vir hulle pote. Hulle het hul eie program 12middag gaan hulle rus tot 2nm en dan vroetel hulle rond tot bedtyd. Hulle gesels en flap die vlerke en hardloop agter Barry aan!
Die kleiner voёl gemeenskap het gister begin sing, die robin sit hoog in die boom en het seker ‘n uur lank aanmekaar gesing! Dit was so pragtig!.ons het verskeie vreemde voёls opgemerk. Die rotte het nooit weer hul verskyning gemaak nie ,dus neem ons aan dat hulle daarmee heen is!
My besoek aan die ‘sjirurg’ was ‘n fiasco.
Dit was my eerste keer wat ek nou werklik met die ongeorganiseerde Hospitaal dienste van hierdie land deurmekaar was. Ek moes ‘n uur wag en toe ek die spreek kamer instap is daar geen sjirurg nie maar ‘n vreemde dokter van Nigerieё. Hy het geen benul gehad wie en wat ek is nie en wat ek daar soek nie. Na ‘n rukkie het hy wel deeglik besef dat ek op die punt staan van ontplof en het probeer verskoning maak en verduidelik dat hy net waarnemend is en dat die ander Dr nog in die buiteland is en hy sal dadelik gaan uitvind of ek bespreek is vir sjirurgie.
Om ‘n lang storie kort temaak ek was nêrens in die boek gemeld nie en moet weer volgende week terug gaan in die hoop om die regte sjirurg te sien.
My eie arme GP het moeite gehad om my te kalmeer maar het uiteindelik my so ver gekry dat ek nou volgende week die man sal sien met ‘n brief wat hy gedikteer het in my teenwoordigheid en hopelik ek sal dan iets meer weet!
Ek is dus nog steeds op” siek verlof “wat lank nie meer siek verlof is nie maar net lui lekker lewe by die huis!
Ek word betaal maar ‘minimum wages’ en dit word nou dringend dat ek na normal terug keer!
Dit was heerlik om briefies van almal te ontvang soos julle tuis kom na jul besoeke aan die ‘Heimat’ daar is egter nog heel party uitstaande en die wat in SA woon word hierby ingesluit!. Leopold se brief van Nuwe Jaar in Delft was ‘n belewenis! Hier het alles gelukkig doodstil verby gegaan!
Môre is soos altyd die beste dag van my week en die predikant het pragtige Psalme en Gesange gekies en ons drink ook tee môre ,dus heerlike samesyn!
Verjaarsdae is vandag MarieJanke en ek hoop dat dit vir haar ‘n pragtige dag sal wees en die jaar ‘n groot sukses. Dorothy in Johannesburg verjaar môre en ek hoop en bid dat sy ook ‘n jaar vol seёninge sal beleef!
Heerlik om weer van Joy te hoor in Brisbane.
Ek groet vanuit Cranleymore met die hoop dat almal veilig tuis sal kom, dat dit sal reёn waar dit droog is, dat die damme vol sal loop, dat die oeste op die lande goeie pryse sal kry en dat alle ‘live stock’ vet en gesond is!
Dat die wat nuwe uitdagings aanvaar dit sal deurvoer en sukses sal hê ook die wat nou in die noordelike halfrond voor eksamens staan ,dat dit goed sal gaan!
Die ‘nuwe ‘dokter in PMB haar werk sal geniet so-ook die jongman in Melbourne!Miskien kan Haya my Anneke se epos adres stuur dan sit ek haar op die poslys!
Wees altyd versigtig, sluit die deure, neem niks as van selfsprekend aan nie! Trap versigtig! Bly gesond!
Die Dunnes
Goeie dag aan almal, familie en vriende,
Die sneeu het gesmelt, die temperatuur het gestyg ,gister was dit 11 grade teen 2nm, ongelooflik na ‘n maand van vriesende omstandighede. Gister het die wind met mening gewaai en dit het gereёn asof die aarde hier in Ierland nie ‘n druppel water gesien het vir maande nie. Oral staan die lande onder water en dele van die kanale en mere is nog steeds geys! Ons kla nie want elke gogga en virus moes vrek in die gure omstandighede!
Die koue het ook groot ellendes meegebring, gebarste water pype en baie plekke sit sonder water of net sekere tye van die dag water in die krane! Dublin is sleg getref !
‘n Man wat op pad was na seun in Dublin van die suide het bleikbaar gegly voor sy huis en niemand het geweet nie en hy is dood onder ‘n kombers van sneeu! Na 10 dae het die bure begin bekommerd raak en toe die Garda daar opdaag sien hulle ‘n hand vanonder die sneeu uitsteek! OOk die verskriklike aardbewing in Haiti, wat is ons tog bevoorregt om niks tekort te hê nie, die armoede en ellende van squatter woonbuurte is soveel meer as in beter bedeelde dele!
Daar is so baie werk wat nou op my wag in die tuin, al die verwoeste blommetjies moes geknyp word al die dooie blare weggesny word en met die lang koue spel het die groei van die affodille en tulpe natuurlik tot stilstand gekom en begin nou eers weer beweeg! Die 1st Feb is snoei dag en daardie week sal ek regtig my deel moet bydra!
Die ganse is nog steeds ‘n groot plesier. Hulle is so vet soos ‘n gans wat reg is vir ‘n fees en sal, noudat die gras weer sigbaar is op diёet geplaas moet word want anders is hulle te swaar vir hulle pote. Hulle het hul eie program 12middag gaan hulle rus tot 2nm en dan vroetel hulle rond tot bedtyd. Hulle gesels en flap die vlerke en hardloop agter Barry aan!
Die kleiner voёl gemeenskap het gister begin sing, die robin sit hoog in die boom en het seker ‘n uur lank aanmekaar gesing! Dit was so pragtig!.ons het verskeie vreemde voёls opgemerk. Die rotte het nooit weer hul verskyning gemaak nie ,dus neem ons aan dat hulle daarmee heen is!
My besoek aan die ‘sjirurg’ was ‘n fiasco.
Dit was my eerste keer wat ek nou werklik met die ongeorganiseerde Hospitaal dienste van hierdie land deurmekaar was. Ek moes ‘n uur wag en toe ek die spreek kamer instap is daar geen sjirurg nie maar ‘n vreemde dokter van Nigerieё. Hy het geen benul gehad wie en wat ek is nie en wat ek daar soek nie. Na ‘n rukkie het hy wel deeglik besef dat ek op die punt staan van ontplof en het probeer verskoning maak en verduidelik dat hy net waarnemend is en dat die ander Dr nog in die buiteland is en hy sal dadelik gaan uitvind of ek bespreek is vir sjirurgie.
Om ‘n lang storie kort temaak ek was nêrens in die boek gemeld nie en moet weer volgende week terug gaan in die hoop om die regte sjirurg te sien.
My eie arme GP het moeite gehad om my te kalmeer maar het uiteindelik my so ver gekry dat ek nou volgende week die man sal sien met ‘n brief wat hy gedikteer het in my teenwoordigheid en hopelik ek sal dan iets meer weet!
Ek is dus nog steeds op” siek verlof “wat lank nie meer siek verlof is nie maar net lui lekker lewe by die huis!
Ek word betaal maar ‘minimum wages’ en dit word nou dringend dat ek na normal terug keer!
Dit was heerlik om briefies van almal te ontvang soos julle tuis kom na jul besoeke aan die ‘Heimat’ daar is egter nog heel party uitstaande en die wat in SA woon word hierby ingesluit!. Leopold se brief van Nuwe Jaar in Delft was ‘n belewenis! Hier het alles gelukkig doodstil verby gegaan!
Môre is soos altyd die beste dag van my week en die predikant het pragtige Psalme en Gesange gekies en ons drink ook tee môre ,dus heerlike samesyn!
Verjaarsdae is vandag MarieJanke en ek hoop dat dit vir haar ‘n pragtige dag sal wees en die jaar ‘n groot sukses. Dorothy in Johannesburg verjaar môre en ek hoop en bid dat sy ook ‘n jaar vol seёninge sal beleef!
Heerlik om weer van Joy te hoor in Brisbane.
Ek groet vanuit Cranleymore met die hoop dat almal veilig tuis sal kom, dat dit sal reёn waar dit droog is, dat die damme vol sal loop, dat die oeste op die lande goeie pryse sal kry en dat alle ‘live stock’ vet en gesond is!
Dat die wat nuwe uitdagings aanvaar dit sal deurvoer en sukses sal hê ook die wat nou in die noordelike halfrond voor eksamens staan ,dat dit goed sal gaan!
Die ‘nuwe ‘dokter in PMB haar werk sal geniet so-ook die jongman in Melbourne!Miskien kan Haya my Anneke se epos adres stuur dan sit ek haar op die poslys!
Wees altyd versigtig, sluit die deure, neem niks as van selfsprekend aan nie! Trap versigtig! Bly gesond!
Die Dunnes
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