Merry Christmas to all you Oranjemunders

[Robert Bruce]

All,

An everlasting memory for me will always be Christmas at Oranjemund. Especially the party laid on for us kids at this time of year at the Rec Club. I always say a silent toast to those days and to all of you 'elder' Oranjemunders who were there to enjoy those funfilled sunny and very happy days as children.

I have been so pleased that during 2007 Mike Alexander created this wonderful site to allow me to interact with old friends from my years in Oranjemund and to meet some new ones.

To say that is has been such a privelege to meet up again with so many of you via this forum is putting it mildly. It has been a gas to read your recollections, see the photographs and enjoy the banter. Keep it coming.

I do hope you all will continue beyond 2007 to provide the support a forum like this needs. It is important for all of us to have a means to stay in touch and record the history of a very special oasis known as Oranjemeund. This forum does the job it is intended for. Well done Mike.

Merry Christmas!

Robert Bruce

[georg ruf jr.]

Very true words Bruce.
I hope Michael keeps the show going for long....

[Keith Margetts]

Ditto that . . .

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my old friends, aquaintances and new ones . . .

Keith (the Canadian Pole-guy).

[georg ruf jr.]

How's the pole going Keith. Haven't heard anything new lately.

[barb (Fry)]

As Bruce said -
and to everyone, thank you and I wish you a very

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Barbara K

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

To all
Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2008
and may this forum go from strength to strength

Have a good one  and have one for me

[Michael Alexander]

The Alexander Clan would also like to take this opportunity to wish all (Ex) Oranjemunders wherever they are in the world a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year....... Enjoy it 

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[Clive Symes]

To Bruce, thanks for starting this post,

To all Oranjemunders, where ever you are in this world,

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and remembering all those years spent in Oranjemund, when Christmas was like one big family ( Aunts and Uncles a plenty even though they were not blood relatives)

To Jimmy Ockwell, Collin & Terry Dunster, Paul, Niel, Nicky and Penny Selby, The Kilbrides, The Coats's, The Bakers and all those other people that made life in OMD memorable, you all know who you are.     A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Thanks to Mike Alexander who created this great site allowing so many of us to, as Robert Bruce put it, " to interact with old friends from my years in Oranjemund and to meet some new ones."

Lets hope we  all continue to support this  forum.

Merry Christmas

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

May you all have a lovely  and may 2008 bring all that is good  fireworks

[Juliana Bester (Petersen)]

We just want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We here in Australia has just woken to
Christmas  and getting ready for the Big Eat with friends!!  Regards from Julie, Eben and Family.

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

   Merry Christmas to you all, hope you all have a luvly day,  Cant wait till next November to remeet and newly meet you all
Love to everyone.
xx e154

[bobbysmith]

well said robert,life is but an experience,life in oranjemund has to be said was a life worth dying for,each and every one of us oranjemunders can honestly say ,it was the time of our lives,strange or fact,no one has ever spoken, on the forum, of bad times spent in om,we were truely blessed,good tideings to you all this christmas,god bless,take good care of yourselves and your families,thinking of you all,cheers,bobby xx