I don't have a blog, but I thought I would use this topic to place in writing those thoughts that run around my head. They may be irrelevant to many of you, but feel free to comment or join in.....
In the back of my mind, I keep pondering this Proclamation saga..... I know most people do not like change, it is a natural thing, we feel comfortable in our current lifestyle...
I feel that an end of an era has come and that change is inevitable....
I get angry as I feel some folk are not pushing the proclamation story for the better of their fellow residents, but for their own agenda's , but perhaps I am wrong....
I swim in the morning's in the town pool and wonder if I hold the record for the longest Oranjemund resident to be using this pool, I was swimming in this pond in 1976... here I am 33 years later still doing....it...... Damn ! I miss the high Diving board..... mmmh! they should rip up the concrete and plant grass again..... Wonder why CDM never put a water tube in here.... that I would have enjoyed..... hehehehe! Remember climbing over these walls when I was pissed at the Youth Club....... Come to think of it, those Spikes are pointless on the walls..... Hey! My Mom and Rhona;s mom was scaled these walls back in the 70's.....
Just my 2 cents worth of thoughts....
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Michael !.... there were many a time we visited the pool after hours, and what we did there, other than cooling off was ................. kiss well there are young ens on this forum so will not upset them...... Oh!... yes our youngest son at the time used to pee in there every time we put him in the water...........mind you he was only 9 month old... hope they changed the water.................. image04
The company is going get rid of everything thats not directly connected to mining.
The town will go, including the swimming pool so enjoy it while you can.
The school will go and the hospital and all services connected with it.
The library will go to and more can't think of them now.
Debeers want's to split the sea operations in to another company and take all the rich pickings there.
The land operations will have to stand on there own. This will make it a marginal mine.
Debeers has said they not interested in marginal mines so we know whats going to happen.
Read the MD and CEO briefs its all in there, just read very very carefully.
I would have thought that the mine would want to hold on to the hospital, get the standards back up.... most mines around the world always have an efficient hospital on their payroll to deal with any accidents that occur on their mines...
If the mine was about to offload these services, why would they be revamping the town pool?
So they can say they gave it over in good condition.
Same with everything else they busy fixing up......
Maybe we will be talking Chinese by 2015.... sorriso2
Was just talking to a Alexander Bayer (I think that';s what you call them), he was commenting on how the town of Alex Bay has come to a standstill, PEP stores have pulled put and there is no longer any business's functioning across there..... reckons it's a sad site, the water and power is still for free, the people who were retrenched last year, never left as they have free housing.....some people have lived there all their live and are now living on soup handouts....
..... Saw some "new" contracting people in town ......
wise person who was once in finance commented to me on the reason why DeBeers keeps maintaining the Town of Kleinzee, Golf Course included, he pointed out that this infrastructure was still an asset to the DeBeers Group and to let it go to pot would cost them more dosh in the long term.....
I think Debeers will still be active in the town for a longtime to come, after all if they want to attract skills to their new technology driven mining operations, they will need an attractive town, no modern day professional is gonna relocate his wife and kids to a debt ridden town with failing infrastructure......
Thought: What's the big deal with this tea, Green Rooibos, Are we being scammed? Without sugar and milk, it tastes crap! What if some clever chap, drank this stuff one day, realised it tasted like water and thought that the only way to market this stuff was to say it had health benefits..... I wonder when the scientists did the test, did they do those tests on the water part of the tea or the actual physical tea leaves.....
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Rooibos was sold very expensive about ten years ago in Germany. As a delicates. We were told how healthy the stuff especialy for the girls because of its ferum.
It made me laugh, because I knew it was the cheap version of tea in ZA and Namibia in the 70s.
Now you get rooibos in EVERY discount supermarket in the flavours vanille, peach, mango, caramel.... Nobody drinks it with milk and sugar.
I also think rooibos is overrated, and as far as the "green" version goes - the studies I've seen has been pretty inconclusive....
It does differ from "black tea", though, and as a rule, healthier as well. I myself cant stand the stuff on its own, but drawing some rooibos with a little piece of cinnamon - now that I can stomache. I also add rooibos to some of my herbal tea mixes to make them more palatable for people who cant drink bitter medicinal teas (not ideal).
Somebody mentioned throwing a slice of fresh ginger in with it also....
Here's a thought: Rooibos is a wild tea, derived from a wild plant originally found only on the hills north of the Sandveld and the southern regions of Namaqualand. To my recollection it has never been otherwise. In fact the seeds of are so tiny that they require meticulous hand collection if anyone wants to propagate the bush.
How is it then that from such a limited source we can produce amounts of Rooibos sold worldwide in quantities similar to the leaf harvested from the vast tea plantations of Sri Lanka, China and India?
Suddenly my Rooibos tea appeared with mint flavour this morning.....
Feeling fed up, As my main PC at home went down last night with a suspected fried Motherboard..... took her into work this morning, did all the tests including giving her a new CPU fan in her hour of need, alas! I was too late and she passed on to the big Microsoft in the sky about 3 hours ago...... nevertheless, Spirits are high as I have been able to source a twin for her house and it should be here 2morrow....thank Goodness we have a network at home.....
It is meant to be 28 degrees here today, see the early morning mist is heading out to sea....
I have also wondered where all the rooibos tea comes - my guess is that as with so many other foodstuffs we are being told it is rooibos tea but it is rooibos flavoured ceylon tea sold as vanilla/mint/lemon/chai/peach......flavoured rooibos tea. Bottom line is that you have ceylon tea in disguise in your cup :wow1:
There is more than likely a little backroom on the 3rd floor of the MINGTEE Co. Building in downtown Fuchen that mass produces Rooibos....
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No way one can disguise ceylon tea as rooibos that flavour one either loves or hates is distincitive ,, good thing about rooibos is one uses a lot more of the plant not only the leaves as in ceylon tea ,,, farming has taken off as there is a lucrative local and export market ,,,,
below taken from search extract ,,,,
Rooibos Tea Farming
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South Africa is the only producer of rooibos tea in the world. The plant, which the Khoikhoi historically used to make tea from, grows exclusively in the Cedarberg Mountain region and around Clanwilliam and Citrusdal. It requires specific climatic conditions, can only been grown at certain altitude and in deep sandy soils. It only needs little rain, a combination of factors which apparently only prevails in this part of the world. Cultivation of this wild plant began in about 1930, and the tea then began to be processed industrially.
Rooibos (red bush) is a shrub which grows up to 1.5 metres high with fine, needle-like leaves. The Rooibos roots reach very deep down to the groundwater and can also absorb humidity through a complex root system just under the surface of the soil.
After two years, Rooibos tea can be harvested. The twigs and leaves are finely chaffed, spread out, wetted and rolled. After the process of fermentation and air-drying is completed, the tea is cleaned, sorted and eventually packed into teabags and packages.
Rooibos tea is a favourite amongst health-conscious people because it contains no caffeine and hardly any tannin, but is rich in vitamins and minerals such as vitamin C, calcium and iron. It is an exclusive South African drink and is mainly exported to Japan, however, health shops in Europe and America stock it.
Rooibos tea is being internationally marketed by the Rooibos Tea Company in Clanwilliam, the co-op of the tea farmers. Visitors are welcome and guided tours and slide shows are offered.
Top: At the beginning of the rainy season the tea is cut. The plant produces tea for 5 to 6 years.
Bottom: Rooibos plantation in sandy soil. It only grows in deep sandy soils and at altitudes of between 200 and 500 metres above sea level.
Sand,.... more sand and sand....
Sniffles and crunchy teeth....but at least Shannon is returning today....
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DeBeers and marginal mines... saw on News 24 the other day... Finsch is up for grabs.
And what lies in the market with Zim's latest trade..?
http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Zim-gem-sale-stirs-blood-diamond-fears-20100812 (http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Zim-gem-sale-stirs-blood-diamond-fears-20100812)
Don't forget the Charles Taylor, Naomi Campbell "gifts"...!
Eventually got my new motherboard up and running in my main PC..... the caps on the old one went pop.......
It's Friday, so this morning I will be taking the dogs to the beach, best time to walk to the river mouth is on a working day morning, no people or other dogs to bother you...
Looking forward to a few ends of bowls this afternoon and then braai with a live band, bedrock performing at the bowling club.... all welcome....
Tomorrow morning I will make a nice big breakfast..... fancy peri peri chinken livers on toast..... looking forward to Currie Cup games 2morrow afternoon...... Yahoooooo! I can feel a super saturday weekend on the horizon, must play "Here Comes the weekend" by........? (Pop Quiz for anyone) 10 points!
The beach was lekker this morning, the actual mouth is now about 40m wide.... and closing..... the beach area was quite, the wind blowing in from the east causing the Atlantic waves to flatten considerably...... with white Sea Horses spraying back into the ocean..... There was however no sand blowing down on the beach itself, although whilst driving to the beach, I noticed the sand springing into the air by the dunes to the east of the town.....
Roxette, now wheres my frikken 10 points!!!!
I've changed my mind, I am going to braai tomorrow, I can't possibly have two of the finest CC games back to back and sit there eating tofu and salad now can I???? I'll just have to drink in moderation tonight!!!
No Points, penalty for not using caps properly ....
Whoa betide the man that plans a braai after a bedrock event....
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Whatta strange weekend, Was an off weekend, headed down to the ol' Bowls club on Friday, had a few dops with Clint, Dana...... Damn, thinking of Dana, he mentioned something to me about Oranjemund or something and I remember saying to him, "Man! I must put that online, that's fascinating,"....the problem being, 72 hours have passed and for the life of me, I cannot remember what it was......
Well the bowling club got rather busy, the band started to rock just after 20h00, the fires were a burning and the bar was a fullin' up with miners and the likes thereoff...... you know , the kind of characters one finds on a mine and all..... I know the band wrapped up after one and the bar closed, as per law just after two...... I even know of a few relatives that had to cancel Saturday;s big rugger braai as they had once again over indulged at the Bedrock Revival session....
The weather on Friday and Saturday was amazing here in Omund, I managed to go to the beach twice with the dogs, Friday morn and then on Saturday again, as little Kelvin now knows about the Beeeeeeech.....often standing at the closed front door screaming..."Open!Open!Open Door....Door, Door Beach...Beach............" The thing with little Kelvin is, well...like his sisters he has this magnetic pull towards all things aquatic, so when he toddles off along the rivers edge, he kind lurches into the water.... Needless to say his clothes got soaked....
Monday, Monday, I thought it was gonna be a depressing day, but the morning was fairly busy and time flew by, could not go for my swim, as I had to take a painkiller to prevent a gout attack.....in case you were wondering the gout has gone......
One nice thing about working in a store, is being able to interact with customers, you know to stand there and have a good old skinner, a chat .....
Feeling better today after having a head cold with a bit of a sore throat...... love to see the shout box in the morning when everyone logs on from around the world, greetings from afar..... yet we are still together....
Wonder what this day will bring, meant to be the "quiet" day at work, but it never is.....
Thinking that as a child, at OPS, I remember always being at school on the 1st of September...... it stuck in my mind how at OPS there was always a big fanfare about the 1st day of spring......
These days OPS is closed on the 1st.....
I think spring day was a big event for the old timers, to have such diversity in tree's, all blooming in a small place in the desert.....
Wondering if I should go have a bath..... or a shower.... without any power....water pressure to my house is still low.....
and I am still wondering why Andy is walking around on crutches..... just giving me a wry smile in the store.... wonder which horse skopped him this time....
Already looking at the weather report for the weekend, two big events happening in town this weekend...... bash at the Gun Club and GOlf Course, will advertise them later....
Sigh, let's get showered....
Oh! Happy Spring Day to you all, well those of you in the SOuthern Hemisphere at least......
Its a good day for me to-day my son bun is comming home to visit mommy. grab(1)
Well actualy for Stephen's big 60 on the 5th.
Springday for me was always the beginning of summer.. the day to tan and have my first swim......this year I think not....blady freezing here this morning.
Besides you will first have to go out and buy a new Costume, as the one from last year will not be fitting your bod anymore....
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Now, the non fitting of the costume seems to be a nation 'wide' phenomena ... kilojules - little critters that creep into your clothes while you sleep and eat them two sizes smaller!!
Quite a windy spring day here in the Kalahari - might be the season in on a 'blow out all the old germs' clean spree. Decided it be a good thing to get myself cleaned up a bit as well today - so, my hairdresser is once again smiling because she had fun and my purse is a bit flatter, but what the heck ... at least I got a good scalp and neck massage from the deal. Now I am as lazy as a cat in the sun. Maybe should just close office for the day, pack up and head home to see if I can cook up some energy to come back tomorrow and jump into spring fever like a teen .....
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Excuse a me Michael.......then you may be right...lost 10kilo's dear boy. So maybe a new cossie is in order. cat3
Drinking does that to you, you old suiplap! image19
Anyhow.... Just saw an old mate of mine. back in town for 10 days, Johan, the man in Orange that flies the Whirlybirds, in Spar with his wife, Krystel and daughter,..... this chap is one staunch Freestate supporter and it is good to see them looking well....... it was also nice to hear them commenting about how the town is looking.....
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Gee! Who would have thought that Roger Moore was 82 years old...
Who was your best James Bond actor then?
Sean Connery
James Bond - has to be Sean Connery.......Now listen to my story - you are saying about the 1st day of Spring, bare in mind that we are in Autumn; weather is getting chilly and the nights are closing in.....anyway yesterday as it was a lovely sunny day, now when I say lovely I mean it wasn't raining and when I say sunny I mean it was still bright out - anyway I decided to go to the beach for a walk, there wasn't too many people around and everything was looking peacefull.
So I'm strolling along, minding my own business rooster - there's a light breeze blowing and I stop every now and again to explore little caves and the nooks and crannies along the way.............next thing I round a bunch of sticky out rocks and what do I see only 2 naked arse arse ....... I-T-O
I kid you not guys & dolls - there were 2 people butt naked topping up their tan on a cold windy beach in Ireland - Has the world gone completely demented image201
Only one James Bond!!!.........'SEAN CONNERY'!..(http://ec.yimg.com/ec/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fia.media-imdb.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BMTMzNzAzMzM5NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwODIyNjI2._V1._SX100_SY124_.jpg&t=1283496042&ttl=43200&maxWidth=98&maxHeight=74&sig=CaNOdmsv4Nx8DPD2_QjiSQ--~B) ...... Watched a movie while in Brisbane the other day 'SALT' with ANGELINA JOLIEN..(http://www.yourmovies.com.au/static/media/x256/274222_97801701_angelina_jolie_600x400.jpg)..... did not take any notice of the other actors.... Its an action pact movie.......its 'OK'......... but like all the action pact movies predictable. The film SALT is a 'JAMES BOND' take off "She (ANGELINA) was asked if she wanted to play a Bond girl. she said, 'No, I'm not comfortable with that, but I would like to play Bond.'" hence the film SALT.............................................................................. image04
Saw SALT too........not too bad
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Was wondering why the Afrikaaners call Candyfloss Spook Asem?
Sean Connery's accent ... so nice ...
Sitting here at work , staring at the 40 odd Oranjemund Newsletters from 1969 and 1970 that Dawn dropped off for me to scan.... then in another plastic bag , at least another 50 Newsletters from 1989, from Nada...to scan..... Oh! Joy ... I will try and limit myself to scanning one a day and at least then in 3 months I might be finished..... Thanks Ladies....
Got myself a piece of Software that is actually used to catalogue book collections, going to see how I can adapt it to use for the Newsletters....starting to lose track over in the desert....
Thinking back to the birthday party I got invited to on Saturday. Got invited by the birthday guy himself - he's got this develish smile, blue eyes, wild blond hair .....
Anyways, we had a great time indeed. I got a Porche 911 as thanks for attending the party and and and ... I got hugged and kissed by the birthday bloke !!!!
You see, the birthday hunk turned 4 on Saturday, but by my golly - is he going to be a stud amongst the girls some day!! Best of all is, he thought I was way to much of a fun aunt not to be invited to his party (his sister invited me to her 6th some time ago). I had to sing to him - the birthday song and no one else was allowed to join in while I was singing - very strict he was about that!!
His mom had him a cake baked that looked like a rusted old 1947 Chev picup - stunning indeed.
Well, I never got round to having much conversation with the 'elders', because I was so involved in the games of the kids. Hidden inside edable clay was a small gift for everyone who attended the party. (I was very happy to settle for a fresh scon with plum jam and cheese, but my happines was not in count here, so forced by the little lordship himself I had to unwrap a gift and chew screech blue clay that had already been handled by about 10 little hands, thus the Porche 911).
I left after the party, but for some reason I think back to Saturday and the joys of being 4yrs old and the wonders of what you discover around you and the way kids perceive you as an adult (oh, and I wish I had one of those scones again) and I think it must mean something so very special to them that you as adult can truly mingle with them on their level at times, specially on an occasion such as a birthday, for just after 8 on Saturday evening I received a message on my phone (obviously written by the mum) from the little lord, thanking me for his prezzie and thanking me for being at his party.
Makes me wonder when I am going to turn 4 and see the world through the eyes of a child once more - to not just always seek and see the bad in things or people, but to dig for what's good and beautifull.
Well, that's me .... and I still have to test drive that Porche 911 on a hand scraped road in my own garden!
image201 image201 image201 image201 Just returned from Sophie's tenth birthday party,.... Sophie was off playing with her friends most of the time Margaret and I were looking after the little ones (their mum and dad had gone to Sydney for the weekend) there are four of them Anna, Harry, Keira, and Emily who is the oldest five..... Porche! NO! they have a BUS (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/3659850933_2eafb919a0_s.jpg).......... we needed a week to recuperate..................... image04
Seen this article in our local TygerBurger to-day....can't get my mind around it. My scanner not working so here in short.
A person driving along on 18th Sept came across two vagrants sitting on the side of the road with a little puppy. After inquiring about the puppy was told that a woman had dumped the puppy with them. There was bedding,two feeding bowls, an open packet of Vets Choice puppy food,a chewing hoof, a dog toy and on top of it she gave them the vet card. Puppy was born on July24 She had her first vaccination and deworming on 13Sept and gets dumped five days later. The vagrants were going to sell her at the station for R50.00. The person took the puppy to the Tygerberg Animal Hosiptal and puppy is now up for adoption.
NOW I ask myself why did the owner not do that in the first place......for whatever reason she could not keep puppy.
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NOPE NOT AT ALL......just that the vagrants didn't want the puppy and she was just dumped on them. I have vagrants down my street with a very well cared for dog. I just would not dump my 2mnth old puppy off on them. The puppy should have been taken to some Animal Shelter and given the chance to be adopted by somebody that WANTED to adopt her be they a vagrant or not.
Um, what's a vagrant?
Vagrants living in your street, Gee! How the mighty have fallen, what extension of Guguletu are you residing in these days?
@Bob, er... a kinda swagman perhaps?
"Etymology
From Middle English vagraunt ("wandering about"), from Old French waucrant, wacrant ("wandering about"), present participle of waucrer, wacrer, walcrer ("to wander") of Germanic origin akin to Old Norse valka ("to wander"), Old English wealcan ("to roll"), Old English gewealcan ("to go, walk about"). More at walk.
[edit] Noun
vagrant (plural vagrants)
1. A person without a home or job.
Paisley: What smells like dinosaur crap?
Mother: Your brother wants people to think we're vagrants.
Wigu: I stink.
2. A wanderer.
Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.
3. (ornithology) A bird found outside its species' usual range.
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lol......They have made their home under some trees at the end of the road....Carol and Peter they called..been there for years
You are going off about a puppy with vagrants.... My God ~ I just got the most disturbing e-mail about 3 white kids found on a dump in Brakpan by the SPCA. The youngest is 3 years old and the oldest is 9. The parents are heroin addicts and they just dumped the kids right there!! How in the name of everything that exists can people do this to their kids. There are so many people who would give anything in the world just to have a child and these asses breed like rabbits, plunge into the habbit of using drugs and then throw their children away like broken toys!!! This outrages me to the core. You should see how these kids look. I just cried my eyes out. These parents should be sentenced to death ... this is an attempt at murder in the worst degree on 3 helpless children.
I am so upset now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is disturbing, really disturbing, ThatStinks2
Dalene, where did you get the email from, I have emailed the topic on Google and can only find a Facebook reference to it.....
One of the books I have read, about the afterlife and reincarnation, points to the fact, that there is actually no real hell, but our time and deeds on this earth are in fact hell....depending on how you live your life here....
I cannot understand how people can dump newborns in bins and kids on the dumps......
I feel really angry at this tale..... WHY?
Hi Dalene, I think I might have sent you the mail. I got a reply from the persons that were seeking for help in the mail as my wife responded and offered to help. The help seekers told us that the mail was old and the kids have a home now. Praise God!!!! woo_hoo
I forgot to add this. They did mention that donations would be welcome such as clothing and blankets. I agree with you Dalene, I was mad when I read that mail. As you say, if they are unable to look after the kids due to unemployment, there are other ways and means of handling the situation. Today's life people have no more Morals or Respect to one another. These kids are traumatised today with all they have been through and need urgent counselling.
Paul, I received the mail this morning from a friend. That is good to hear that the kids have been placed and have a good home now, however that still does not make good for the fact that the parents have dumped them and nothing has been done to bring them to justice about this all. It still does not make my anger towards the parents lessen. Fact remains that those kids have been neglected and emotionally they have been teared up due to the fact of what they had to endure as pure innocent minors. Could these parents not have taken them to a shelter or to a childrens home and said that they could not take care of them anymore? Could they not have gotten help in some way? They could, but they just did not care to do so !!!!
Yes, praise God that these kids are safe and protected now and hopefully loved by whomever are taking care of them.
Were the kids adopted as a family unit?
Don't know ... don't know either if they have been adopted or just in forster care, but hopefully it would be as a family unit, else the trauma is more severe to them if they were split up.
Paul, also agree with what you said, - in this case, even though we don't know for sure if the parents were unemployed or not ~~ fact is, they still had money to pay for their drug habbit instead of allocating the availible funds toward the care and wellfare of their children.
Ooohhhh - I am still boiling on the inside -- if I should come across people like this I will be charged with murder, for I would sure kill them for doing this to kids !!!
Have just spoken to the folk at Brakpan SPCA. Apparently this happened in mid July. They are in court today for the case, so the lady to contact (Vicky) is not availible. This lady whom I spoke to also told me that the parents are trying to brainwash the kids now to say that they have been abducted and have been abused by the SPCA personel and forster parents - this happened yesterday, that is why they are in court again today ... the forster parents are trying to get an urgent interdict against the parents to refuse them visitation to the children, for they are having such a bad influence on the kids. The mother was apparently also very drunk and disorderly yesterday and sweared like a sailor, yelling at everyone .....
To answer your question, Mike - yes, all the kids have been placed at one family, so they have not been split.
In any case, soon the matter will be out of the hands of the SPCA people and then wellfare will deal with it further, so if anyone wants to call you should do so soon. The lady also said that they will then give info about the wellfare worker who will be handling the case so that further contributions and sponsors can be made if wanted.
Like said, the lady is not availible today, but she will be again on Monday
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When I read something like this, I feel extreme sadness, anger, and cant help tears from welling up so I cant see the bloody computer screen. Why? It baffles me that I can have such feelings, not even seeing the kids or knowing everything they must have gone through over the last 3-9 YEARS on a daily basis, and yet.... no emotional inkling shown by the parents who clearly should be hanged by the ......
Hey Bertie, my sentiments are the same. This world of ours is getting sicker by the day. People like that should be locked up and never to see the sun again. They don't deserve to breathe as they are oxygen thieves.
You know, I am still so sad about this ... I sit here now and draw up a small list for groceries and a a few other stuff to get for the weekend .... and my first thought is "what should I get for the kids" .... My priority, my duty, my love for them as parent, my integrity, my commitment, my responsibility ... that is why they and Cobus come first -- as a mother, as a parent it is just natural to feel this way .... Now I want to know what you call the 'things' like these (I cannot refer to them as anything else) who has children, but they have none of the feelings as listed ... they come first and last and only they count for themselves in life .... and my thoughts go back to those kids and I wonder what kind of weekend are they going to have and being children, I know they miss those things that are supposed to be their parents, because they still trust them even with the knowledge that they have been let down so many times ... and those kids will cry for their parents for a long time to come still even if they are loved and protected by good folk now. I just pray to God that those people can emotionally be strong enough for those kids and support them like they should be supported.
Paul, as for them locked up - no, because then they get looked after and fed by our tax money and even later by their own kids tax money - I share the sentiment that they should not be allowed to breathe further. People like that don't deserve to live (I know I am being very judgemental here and playing God in what I am saying, but sorry - it is just the way that I feel about this today and I am venting .... )
Dont worry Dalene, I'm sure a lot of us feel the same. We probably dont know the whole story and full circumstances, but NEVER should a child be suffering because of the parents' way of life. Even a swearing, drinking, mother should know where to draw the line and mother instinct should prevent her from throwing away her own flesh and blood...
Och, it's nauseating. I better go take a sip of my Valerian root tincture to calm down...
The way I feel about this you should send me about two liters of that potion to calm me down, Bertie !!
@Mike,
I think I've lived in Godzone too long.
@Pepe, Dalene, Bertie et al: addicts are victims too. It becomes a vicious cycle. It's tempting to lash out at offenders but if we want to really change the situation we need to address root causes.
Nations worldwide have been trying to reduce the use of drugs by declaring them illegal. Prohibition simply creates a black market which in turn generates huge wealth for organised crime. Remove the money and the crime rate will collapse, and with it most of our social ills.
That can be simply achieved by making hard drugs free on prescription, provided you register as an addict. This won't change the present addiction rate but it will certainly reduce the uptake of new addicts. Immature personalities, the most likely new addicts, are attracted to drug use by their romantic, dangerous and pleasurable image. Take that away, drop the heavy crime and punishment aspect, leave only the sickie image and youngsters will stampede away in droves.
Much of our crime and prostitution is driven by the need to buy drugs at inflated prices. Remove this need and crime rates will crash. It would also free up police time for other work, reduce the massive costs of crime fighting and we score all round.
The idea is not new. The reason why it hasn't been put into operation is that it is opposed by vested interests: the drug barons on the one side and the over-staffed police resources backed by huge budgets and point-scoring politicians on the other.
Mankind has always known how to combat his social ills. All we lack is the political will.
Did'nt the Dutch try this?
Really Lekker day at Adriaan's 50th birthday pig on the spit braai day, small in numbers, but far in years as oranjemunders..... Adriaan Van Rooyen, Mariaan Van Rooyen, Mike Stenson, Gunther Salchow, Piet Muller, Mike Alexander, Jimmy Jones, Barendt Mathee, Jackie Mathee..... old timers at a most excellent afternoon....
Yes, Mike, the Dutch did try a slight relaxation of drug controls, particularly on cannabis but with mixed results, due largely to non-cooperation from surrounding states.
One of the results was an influx of drug tourists, in Holland only to get high without hassle from the cops.
What is needed is international cooperation in the lifting of all drug controls and free government supply of addictive drugs on prescription to registered addicts. Cannabis should be licensed and taxed, with personal - i.e. non-commercial - production permitted.
The cost savings and other benefits to taxpayers would be enormous.
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My friend Len whom I have known for 26 years has passed away this morning at 5am in Windhoek due to cancer after a long and hard struggle ... and my heart is so sore for the loss and in empathy with his wife and kids. Last e-mail I got from him was on Monday - got one from him every day of the week in the mornings with a single bible verse and then he would tell me how he feels and how strong his faith is and how he is praying and how he has made peace with the path that was layed out for him!
Salut my friend -- I'm going to miss you but will never forget you !! I know you're on a great lake, rowing a superb kano now ... (one of his last wishes - we used to go rowing together for excersise back in the day).
Darn - he had his birthday on the 21st Jan - every year we would call each other and Len (not the best singer in the world at all) would sing to me.... who'se gonna sing to me now ???
So sorry to hear of the loss of a good friend Dalene ,,, sad fact is this is the time space we all seem to be finding ourselves in ,,
From me ,,, love ,, cherish ,, all we find in our life space ,, those special friends ,, they are gifts ,,,
bighug Dalene
Shook my head in disbelief when I realised how belly up ALex Bay has gone, is it really true that there are 13 pupils pregnant at the High School Over there?
How many kids from Oranjemund attend school over there?
I was also wondering what the reason could be for the tale doing the rounds that a number of Previously advantaged folk taking the kids outta the schooling system up here and shipping them south to high school next year? Are they worried that the school might stumble and become a semi state school? Are they worried that the school might no longer be able to afford the high standards it currently delivers? I know one parent reckoned that with the new fee's next year, it would actually be cheaper to send their offspring to boarding school.... another commented that they worry that their child cannot reach their full potential as the child is good in sports and this school no longer offers top notch sports as it was in the old days..... plenty of food for thought in that rant.....
just my 2 cents...
I find it very hard to believe that parents can find it cheaper to send their children off to boarding school than to keep them at the local high school. Apart from the school fees that the parents are now responsible for, what about the hostel fees, transportation costs, all the necessary trips up and down to get the children settled, various out week-ends, cellphone allowances? I know of children that will be equipped with laptops - what about the insurance costs to cover this? Never mind all the extra's that children need for hostel living - extra bedding, clothing, the increase in pocket money for all of those extra activities for which the children are being sent away for in the first place?
I agree that at this stage there are more opportunities regarding subject choice at the outside schools but surely that is also something that the local high school could look into - if only they got the necessary support from the parents.
As for extra mural activities - there are a number of sporting clubs who are often going away on tours, look how well the OPS children did at the recent Science Fair held in Rosh Pinah and Windhoek, the school always take part in the yearly Eistedfodd that is held in Springbok.
Yes Oranjemund is remote and our children need to realize that not all towns are like this but after asking for a high school for as far back as I can remember surely we should try and support it?
Heaven help me next year if Shannon decides she wants to go off to boarding school!
Heaven help me even more...... love10
Matric exams .... Susan is writing her first exam paper today - CAT ... !
I'm not stressing .... I'm not stressing .....
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Spoke to her early this morning - she's okay and relaxed.
I know she'll do good ... she is a good student and worked hard throughout the year. She hopes for at least 4 distinctions (maths and 'skeinat' are her worry subjects).
All the best to all the other students out there for you exams. Our thoughts and prayers with you all - just do your best !
@ Dalene - send our good luck wishes!!! Sure it will go well.
@ Michele - I agree. There's just as much opportunities there in Oranjemund. I remember all the tours we did, competitions (gymnastics, choir, music, athletics, karate, art, etc). When I went to boarding school, it was clear that we were way ahead of the other "locals" as far as education and had a much greater life experience. Oranjemund might have been a small town, but all the things available to keep you busy was MUCH more interesting and rewarding than the kinds of exposures I would have had in other bigger central towns. What's more fun? ... building a raft at the river, sleeping over in the dunes of the desert listening to and seeing wild animals, OR, a shopping mall in a city where you can buy drugs and crime...
I miss Oranjemund. When will my life be organized over here so I will be able to visit??????
@ Dalene, all the Best and Good Luck Wishes to your daughter. I am sure she will exceed her expectations as she has worked hard. The amount of effort you put in will be the result. This is a saying I always told my sons and it works.
@Bertie and Michele, I agree with you whole heartly with what you say. Was the best upbringing and exposure in the World!!!!
Thank you - will carry your good wishes over to Susan.
Like you all say - regarding education and all other aspects of our 'development' to prepare us for life in the world outside has put us, who came from Oranjemund, in a privilaged spot compared to other children - measured up against what we found once we went to boarding school. At that stage we just took it for granted, but looking back on it all, one has to realize and give credit to the company, the school, the town and mostly - the people. My dad did not even work for the company, but we were always treated as part of the 'family' and included in everything on the same level as everyone else and we were given the same opportunities.
I think it is a mind set thing : most always think that you will find the grass greener on the other side of the fence and it is not always the case.
Phew! aLMOST a crises, just went to the SPar genset to make sure it was all ready for Sunday's Power CUT..... got the fright off my life to find the whole one side of the unit covered in black gunk diesel, on further investigation it turns out that the other shift had a problem and the diesel lube cap had come off spraying the entire unit , they already had the mechanic there a month back and everything had been sorted, except for the clean up..... add that to mondays list...
Went to the Lodge last night for a braai, was pleasantly surprised to find 20 odd folk down there ...... pleasant evening....
Was going to organize the beginning of Social Bowls on Friday Night, but just checked the weather report is showing a maximum of 17 degree's and a minimum of 11 degree's for friday and rain on Saturday, where on earth has the summer gone to?
In the back of my mind , for at least the last 4 years, whenever I was down at the beach, walking the dogs, I would always think about how many diamonds were under those waves, I wondered back then already, how one could retrieve the stones..... over the years, I formed an idea, where you could safely mine at least 100m from the high water into the waves, without putting a man's life at risk..... Now I am no engineer and do not know stress and strains, but I cannot see how my idea cannot work..... sure there shall be flaws in the plan..... and I know the mine actually wants to mine at least 1000m into the surf, but if your mine is battling to recover carats surely 100m in multiplied by at least 50km of workable tidal zone is plenty until we can develop the technology to go deeper.....
Gonna draw a rough sketch of my plan and post it in here to let you guys get involved....
Heard there were a few break in's over the weekend in our town over the weekend, will post on the telegraph board once I have more info....
It;'s gratifying to walk around the town and see houses being painted again...
Yesterday, we had our first house inspection in about 8 years, the lady concerned seemed genuinely interested in all my cracks and cupboards..... let's see where it leads.....
Wondering what I will be doing with my Saturdays' now that I am removed from the rugby shackles that have enslaved me over the last few months....
It was reassuring to read the online mining journals yesterday and see how all the diamond mining companies are returning to profitability again, the demand is picking up.....
Sad to see on BBC news this morning how the once great British Navy is being reduced to a 3rd world nation status.... all the cuts happening in the UK are now effecting their military and one wonders if it is now not time to refrain from calling that nation GREAT Britain , but simply Britain.....
There we go, my rant for the morning, and don't forget it's only 2 and a bit years before the solar flares destroy the world.... hehehehe swink
My mind is full of cotton wool today - feeling a little fluey so best not come too close ill-3d ............and for those of you who are interested - We have 65 sleeps till Christmas present(1)
Already the shops of getting stocked with their chocolate and biscuit selections feedme
Why don't you just remove the cotton from your mind, perhaps you will feel better then?
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Good plan 99 - feeling better already...............big fire lit and telly all to myself - anyone for a biscuit
Telly schmelly, me and my oldest born, have just come home, after a most excellent night at the bowling club....
are-you-there
Hey, who ate all the biscuits? chocolate-51
First social bowls evening of the season, and what a turnout...... All in all there must have been more that 40 people at the club, a full moon, no wind , a roaring fire , great music...... reckon there must have been at least 16 folk rolling them marbles down the lawn,
It was great to see Gary and Leticia Gray at the bar, Mike Burgess also...... Ed Jones was in town and Rory Allen......
Terry Holland and Jono Smith keeping the fire stoked outside.....all in all a very lekker evening.....
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Mr Alexander, I hope you are not teaching my eldest grandaughter bad lessons...............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! image21 image21
I was angry to read this morning of the four year old girl that was raped at murdered in Keetmanshoop yesterday, she was found gagged and her face had been smashed with a blunt object..... Police and the Defence force are currently hunting the suspect down, and the community are baying for his blood...
Sorry to piss all you liberals off, but they should bring back the death penalty.... hang the bastard from the nearest kamelthorn tree.....
On another note, it was amusing for me to read yesterday that the major new uranium mines up Swakop way under produced for the quarter by a 4.5%, shareholders were not impressed, the explanation goes on to explain that the wrong ore was put through the plant and the incorrect area was "mined"...... Gee! I thought to myself, I remember when this mine of ours was having a similar scenario during the last two years, I also wondered if all those "educated" folk that left this mine and headed for yellower pastures at the Uranium mines had taken their skills of mining and processing the wrong grounds with them....
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May he be caught, tortured and left to suffer in agony... for a very very very long time... and then be fed to the wild animals. I agree. I have NO forgiving thoughts for a $%*$*&^ like that. shooter
I couldn't agree more Bertie BoomSmilie_anim BoomSmilie_anim
ThatStinks2 Almost bed time and out in the kitchen the bloody washing machine has leaked all over the floor; okay so there are tiles in the kitchen so not too bad, but the leak went in under the floor boards in the hallway - now I squelch every time I'm in the hallway.......but you know what the absolute confusing thing is, the washing machine wasn't switched on, it wasn't even plugged in and the door was open - the drum just filled with piping hot water and overflowed out of it.......... ThatStinks2
I thought the Irish never used washing machines, they just plonk their laundry outside on the hedge seeing that it always rains over there...
Whilst pouring me all bran flakes , I noticed the pretty girl on the box, all decked out in her skimpy clothing and wondered how much all bran I would have to consume to look like that....er,,,,without the curves and all.....
Mike, it's not how much you would have to consume but how long you would have to wait before you started to eat again before you could look like that.
Mr. Mayor of Kathexas and Mr. Owner of the building and Mr. main electrical engineer - I am a novice where it comes to electricity, but my half good mind tells me that there is no way that you can install a 60 amp breaker for a building that houses 8 different comanies, each with it's own offices who all have aircons, lights, kitchens with kettles, microwaves and fridges, runs vacuum cleaners, telephone and other electrical power outlets.
Sirs, my half good mind tells me that the power will trip every hour. My half good mind tells me that you need to invest in a bigger mini sub and up the amp and voltage supply to this building. We do not like conducting business in the dark ... our clients tend to think that we are hiding stuff. Our computers needs power in order to keep working.
Sirs, also do I need to bring to your attention that law on building regulation stipulates that since 2004 all new buildings must from start be compliant as to make provision for disabled people .... this building is one year and 3months old and nothing of those regulations has been adhered to. Neither do you answer to mails or comlaints about this. Are you aware of the fact that I have to call for help to get my son and other wheelchair people up the stairs into my office? Sirs, I don't think I need to tell you that should one of these people fall and or injure themselves further, that you are liable for a very big civil claim against you?
PS : I have sent the same to a local newsletter - somehow I don't think it will get printed .......
@ Dalene .. printed ,, never ,, dont forget the new proposed protection of information act ... anything that can embarress the powers that be is verboten ,, proof last Sunday when the corruption and nepotism in police force article was stopped ,, the excuse was protection of " operatives " ha ha ,,,,,
Well, my first thought on rising today was that 6 years ago today my beloved aunt Val (Gavin) was brutally taken from us by some thug who's still wondering the streets out on R500 bail, some of you may remember her, she left O'mund in 1981. Something i cannot fathom & cannot wrap my head around - you get fined R1000 for not having a TV licence and R500 bail for murder - what's wrong with that picture I ask myself??? As for the investigation, don't get me started on that one!!! Why is it that if you're someone "important" they've suddenly got all the manpower in the world and the case gets solved in like yesterday, yet if you're just another joe soap they play the backlog card and "they're too overworked to get to it"!!!
Anyway after my rant above (just had to get that out my system).........this morning in my quiet time, while Caryn & the animals were still sleeping, the house was still, it was just me & the birds greeting the new day with their sweet songs in the trees outside my bedroom window (my favourite time of the day), i promised her i'm going to celebrate her life today and remember only our good happy crazy times and not dwell on the negativity that still surrounds her death. I rest in the knowledge of universal order & perfection, that divine universal justice will prevail & the perpetrator will reap the consequences of his actions, perhaps not in this lifetime & by our limited perception of justice, but bear the consequences he will, there's no getting away from Karma.
She was/is truly a remarkable soul and made a huge impact on my life, nothing that i can describe in mere words..........Val, may your light continue to shine down on your loved ones as you walk your path in the higher realms, may it be eternally filled with love, peace, happiness & adventure. Miss & luv ya madly, till we meet again xoxox
3d smiles(281) Beautiful, Delia. Yes, hard to see it sometimes, but justice will be served, one way or another and my belief much like yours - if not in this lifetime, he will have to give reckoning for his deeds - that's no maybe.
Good to celebrate your aunt Val's life, rather than the thug's useless existence.
Big hug to you today!
Thanx Bertie, received & big hug back bighug
100 % with you on this one Delia .. celebrate Vals life .
Remembering my dad, big Dirk - would have been his birthday today. Miss the big old guy tons, but all good memories. Sometimes just wish he was still around so I could ask him things that I have forgotten about.
Right spirit you have about it, Delia - celebrate her life !
Like said ,, so many of us are going through the phase of missing ,,,, a year is closing , another year ahead with its challenges and yes we wish we had those pillars in our lives still ... our life journeys although intertwined still have the drift especially for those that have passed , their comfort be it via a dream or image slowly fades as they move on their journey as the other world has other priorities to our current earth life ... the acceptance of it although many of us understand it still find it hard to accept ... Peace and acceptance to all in this space ..
It is Boet's birthday today. Had a good bash on Friday evening with friends and all ....
As said, last year this time we were still in ICU in Cape Town and we were still lost in our 'trauma' - we celebrated his birthday with screech green and yelling pink cup cakes ... the whole gang was allowed round his bed for a few mins and to take pics - not something they allow in ICU (remember, only 2 visitors per bed).
We have come so far in one year (and we still have such a long way to go) ... we have accepted and have sort of assimilated. I have to admit - there are still those days when I look at my child and when my heart brakes for him for being in a wheelchair, but then again I realize - he is alive, he has been spared for us and although it is so hard on him, this thing has taught us all a few new lessons in life.
To mention a few : it has taught me to have more patience and not to throw my toys out the cot for each and every little thing that does not go according to my planning. It has taught me that there is no shame in tears. It has taught me that I am allowed to as favours of friends. It has taught me that I am allowed to speak about my feelings and share my weaknesses with others. It has taught me to accept help and hugs and favours with an open hand and open mind.
Most of all - it has taught me that I have so many friends who truly care !!!
Happy birthday my beautiful boy - I am so proud of you !!
happybirthday woo_hoo :auguri1:
Happy Birthday Boet! And a big congratulations to you Dalene on your son's birthday!
Yes, it has been quite a year for you both but look where you are today! You both remain an inspiration to the rest of us and we are grateful to be a part of your lives! And thank-you for sharing some of your "lessons in life" with us - I am sure there are many of us who should stop and try and remember all of these things as we go about our daily lives! As the saying goes - life is too short! But what does it have to take to remind us how short it actually is.
3d smiles(281) bighug
@ Dalene , give birthday wishes to Boet .......
Getting tired, the Spar in Omund is busy , a lot of folk on leave , but staying in town this year.... Just bashed into Wessel Wessels, who is in Omund for a Xmas holiday, fishing down at the beach..... his family will be also joining him shortly ... In general, a number of non residents appear to be in town for the Xmas,
Been going through a lot of old video from my Dad's days.... Oranjemund in the 70's.....
Sometimes I start to think..... what the hell are we still doing in Oranjemund? Everyone from my past has left, there are only but a handful of folk left from the 70's, the rest have all gone, replaced by other folk that are no longer expats..... have we made a mistake staying behind? You wonder, I guess on the positive side.... all my brothers still live here, I have great neighbours, including two old timers from the 70's..... one was even an Appie with me.... so from that perspective I cannot complain.....
You watch those old films and look at the faces on the faded pics, you keep reminding yourself, that all those folk that left, did'nt all leave together and move to some other small place, No, they are scattered around the world....
I guess it's sad to realise that things have changed a lot here in oranjemund, but I guess they would have changed no matter where I had grown up in the world.....
My town is still a safe green place, with wild Gemsboks and Jackals wandering the streets, throw in a few springbok and ostriches ..... my kids are enjoying the town..... and I guess the internet has made all of us just that wee bit closer.....
What I have noticed when viewing all those old films, is heck, a lot of folk smoked back in the day, people seemed to live for the day and not the future, and the old timers are right, time does fly by quicker the older you get..... sometimes you get angry that time has to age us all....
well, that's just my thoughts for the day.....
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allgood Mike .. bravo for sharing with us all , and yes thinking carefully , and having no regrets with life choices ..
msn emoticon (8) Mike. Like you say - there would have been changes wherever we grew up. The visual, emotional and special memories you stored in the grey matter as a child, is what gives us that special feeling about our town.
In a lot of ways I am jealous of you who had the opportunity to stay in my town of birth.
As far as getting angry with father time... I think if I didn't age, I would not have felt this feeling of gratitude for a special childhood of yesteryear - a special time set out just for me to be there and experience the town from the moment I saw the world for the first time, for more than a decade. I'm blessed, and should be grateful.
you rock
Also mentioned this on another site - my baby girl, Susan is 19 today - a young woman and out into the world.
And it makes me think how time flies by ... it seems like only yesterday that she was this tiny pink bundle in my arms and now she is about twice my size. I can't pick her up anymore or carry her around, but as a mother she knows I am there for her to pick her up and carry her emotionally to the best of my ability. Strange how we wish, when they are small, that they would grow up, but once they are grown up, we wish we could have them small again.
All I can wish for her, besides a happy birthday, is a good life full of the happiness she deserves and pray that the Lord protect her and fills her with wisdom and inner beauty and that she keeps her faith strong.
I awoke just after 04h30 this morning after a 12 hour sleep..... head still cloudy, and I have just chowed supper from last night...... wondering where to start my saturday off.... just heard wee Kelvin running down the passage calling for his mommy, it;'s just shy of 10 degrees here, so no doubt he is hopping into bed to cuddle mommy.....
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A real man is a woman's best friend. He will never let her down. He will comfort her after a bad day. He will inspire her to do things she never thought she could do. He will enable her to express her deepest emotions. He will empower her to be confident, sexy, seductive and invincible ... No wait. Sorry. I'm thinking of wine. It's wine that does all that. Never mind...
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I am a bit tired today ... no, not just a bit, I am darn tired today. Got up this morning and felt like I did not have enough sleep. Dragged myself off to work, have been forcing myself to work, but now I feel like lying down and sleeping. It is as if my system has a shortage of power fluid (that adrennaline stuff that people live on).
But, I'm not worried about it .. tomorrow is another day and then I will be my bouncy self again !!! Everyone gets those odd 'off' days ... mine is only a tired day ~ it is not emotional or anything serious.
Is it just me, or is the world getting crazier.....?
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Wanna buy me that yacht and live on the oceans.... away from the crazy folk.....
America ~ Shootings
Middle East ~ Wars
South Africa ~ Riots and Massacres ...
Europe ~ Unemployment and Economy heading South....
Asia ~ Japan, China, Korea, Philippines threatening over minerals around the islands...
South America ~ Falklands, Hugo Chavez.....
Egypt, Libya ~ Political instability....
Norway ~ Shooters....
Think I must move up to Bogenfels or Fort ReeF!
shooter
This is exactly why wine is soooo good for you..... rose coloured glasses and all the world seems great........ sorriso2 drinking-41
Diana, isn't your wine rose coloured...........?????????????
Just thinking about how life is shooting by and how we lost 5 ex Oranjemunders in the space of 21 days.... Ken Dixon, Brian La Trobe, Keith Brooks, Danny the Greek and Bobby Smith...... a confusing time.... makes one consider one's own morality and if we have done everything that we wanted to do......
Indeed so Michael ,,, a lot of pondering going on ,,
Did a bit of thinking today
Project Guest Lodge ................... S, B & B (Supper, Bed & Breakfast) to start May 2013 if all goes well
woo_hoo
Where?
Why .................. Not Localy
Market research would show that we already have 3.1 private establishments already, with the larger of the three expanding..... in addition to this, we also have numerous mine guesthouse's that are in the process of being "outsourced" all in all, top of my head , with the mines guesthouses, I reckon our small town has about 120 beds for overnighters......
Just my opinion......
are-you-there
Maybe he means at fort reef Mike ..... image19 swink
All you stated above has been taken into cosideration, as I said not localy .............
Draw 1000km radias around Oranjemund , don't look west I'm not sure of any Islands out there
So you wanna play the secret stuff,..................okay inside or outside the 1000 km radius?,bed and breakfast,you say old chap,so you are gonna get served in bed each morning..? 164
I that has not been back to Oranjemund in aprox 22yrs is just wondering how on earth all these guest houses keep going.......perhaps its time I came to pay me brother and me sister a visit. Then of course I expect our Mike A to light me a fire with wine on tap so I can do my research into the need of all these guesthouses. Radius or da not my brother drinking-41
Indeed,Diana Mike has his one private wine collection,i somehow recall that there should be around two thousand bottles of wine for you to choose from... drinking-41.......... about time you should come and check up on your town.. msn emoticon (8)
There ain't no wine enough in the entire Namibia to quench that wenches thirst!
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And I'm saying nothing...............
The wise old man speaks again ... image201
hic.... quickdop
Quote from: Adriaan Van Rooyen on October 02, 2012, 10:20:18 PM
Indeed,Diana Mike has his one private wine collection,i somehow recall that there should be around two thousand bottles of wine for you to choose from... drinking-41.......... about time you should come and check up on your town.. msn emoticon (8)
Thats a good start drinking-41
Had a nice chuckle. Thanks Patricia for the remark re Friend Mike V
Hennie, if you are ever in the Gordon's Bay area, we'll just have to get together..........
Quote from: Mike Voden on October 04, 2012, 02:23:04 PM
Hennie, if you are ever in the Gordon's Bay area, we'll just have to get together..........
ERRRRRRRR.......don't you stock enough wine for me MR V :-) drinking-41
Was in the bottle shop the other day and they had Penfolds Hermitage grange at over $2000 a bottle,(http://www.cellarit.com.au/images/penfolds-grange-storage.jpg) so ovcourse I bought Margaret two bottles of Yellow Tail Merlot at $20 could have bought for that price 10 bottles of Bowlers Run $2 a bottle........................and a nice Orchid giverose
Funny festive week, crossed my mind that it was my late father's birthday this week, him being Jack (Jock), tonight going to the neighbours house for a party.... his name being Jack...... then on Saturday evening going to another birthday bash, a 60th at that , and that particular chap's name is also Jack..... only thing missing from this weekend would be a Jill..... strange but true.... actually astonished that the Portuguese Jack invited me to his party again this year, after last years one was quite a tale..... I hang my head in shame..... tsk!Tsk!
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Diana, we don't stock THAT amount but there is a bottle store nearby, so you are also welcome..............
Just teasing Mike V but perhaps when Alfred is down and decides to let me know his popping by you I'll come with.
Quote from: Mike Voden on October 05, 2012, 12:19:26 PM
but there is a bottle store nearby
Problem that I forsee, we shall need more than one bottle store if the Big D is gonna go to G Bay!
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sorriso2 Big D ... love it. Have to laugh.
Anytime Diana, anytime. As you know we are also near the land of numerous wine estates, so that son in law of mine is way out of his depth drinking-41
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Wondering how on earth the cheetahs are having to play a relegation saving match on Friday evening?
ThatStinks2
Spent an hour this afternoon in the town pool, bombing off the little board with the kids..... walked home, barefoot , towel around my neck, shorts soaking wet...... twas' 30 years ago that I last did that...... turns out my barefeet ain;t what they were back then.... burned my soles.....
ThatStinks2
Ah! The good old days :emot112_2:
Wondering how much truth there is to the rumour that folk will not need to apply for a permit to enter Oranjemund for the Diamond festival weekend?
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Not true.... turns out that there are a load of folk coming to town for the weekend of the diamond festival.... these folk's will have their name and ID's added to a list that will still get processed.... when they enter and when they leave....
Tonight this Bundy tastes exquisite.........................................Good night all (http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/Smileys/Morty%27s%20Set/image04.gif)(http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/Smileys/Morty%27s%20Set/image04.gif)
Just back from spending the last hour and half with Kelvin and Shadow down on the sandbar at the beach, drove past a ton of gemsboks on the way down.... build a sandcastle with moats the size of the kitchen.... swam in the river.... the clouds, puffing overhead, the river sparkling..... no wind.... and then I sat in the water looking back up the river.... as the clouds moved over the dry dunes.... drawing their shadows along beneath them..... a flock of river birds crossing my path.... and it dawned apon me..... phew! ain't I lucky to be living here......
I think you should write a book! summer joy.gif
MmmmmH! 66 Days of no booze, Last dram was way back on the 30th of last year.... set my self a target till the 20th March and I am almost there...... gonna crack me a barrel soon.....
Slurrrrrrrp!
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image203 it,s here! I made it...... 90 minutes to crack it open,perfect weather, just rewards...
That braai area looks familiar, but shouldn't the (QUIET........?????????) party take place tomorrow.............???????????
He does not know it .... camera installed ready for action....
Keep us posted Adrian please..................!!!!!!!!!!!
hooookay.....
Enjoying the last few hours of warm weather in omund, as the wind starts to swing to the cool winter coast again..... The late afternoon rays penetrating through the neighbors palm tree.... Braaifire fire setting the warming trend for the afternoon, live appearance by Big Country singing "over the hills" as the glass of Windhoek Draught" plummets to record lows beside me....
That still you have there Michael hope it did not explode when you cracked it open last week (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTSXyBjWchnIm-KaV56hw4v0HeQZfcPd37LnF-jrZgv9D2o_1Hz)(http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/Smileys/Morty%27s%20Set/image04.gif)
Looking forward to this afternoon,s cooking.... Feel a wee bit of Hank Williams and Charlie Pride comin, on.....
Tell me Mike A, what cook books did these two write......................?????????????????????
Silly English person, they motivate me to cook....
Ah, I thought you were going to cook us up something different for supper..............
You can keep your beans on toast........
What about a deboned roll of pork with apple sauce and other trimmings...............?????????
Did'nt hear you complaining when you returned for seconds...
And very nice it was indeed Mike A........ Well done on a fine achievement
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Wondering who broke my chair!
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What chair is that Mike A
Ah, it must have been Adriaan................
You call that a office chair,tis a wonder it lasted up till now,get new chairs Mike,then i can get one of your worn out sleezy chairs and then i can throw out that appelkissie upstairs....you can always put the price of baked beans up for a month....that will cover your costs,....