This week .... I felt......

[Michael Alexander]

As quite a few of you will know.... I have lived in Oranjemund since 1972..... politics.... work ... love......  I have come and gone.... but ... I guess home was always here.... somewhere . ... stuck between the Mouth of the Orange river and the rolling dune belt of the Namib desert........ I mentioned this statement this week for the first time to Arthur at Spar..... Ask me not why.....or how come.... But when I came to work on Monday..... I had this "gut" feeling......... Oranjemund was on her last legs..... For the first time ever.... I felt....and I guess I knew.....Oranjemund town ...is on her last years..... as we all know.... way back in the 70's ... they always said.... 7 years to go...... just 7 years......... We laughed... we knew...... Well ... My ex Oranjemunders...... I fear.... that ,,,,,, that time has arrived...... Our youth...... Out homes... our Memories........ are about to go........

It's a good thing...that oranjemund...as we know it...will always survive..... on the net....................




Ps..... yes! I have been drinking.............

[SandyB]

Ok  understood  Mike ....  mushy moment .. enjoy it .. its good for the soul ....

[Michael Alexander]

... Er! Uhm! ... I Also made this awesome Potato Salad.....   

[Cherry (Alcock)]

  You are not a well puppy!

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

I hope that you also ate some of that awsome potato salad you made   -   did you feel better or worse afterwards?

Yeah  -  you are allowed to have your      moments  (even if helped on by  ), for it is a sad thought that life as you had known it will only be just a good memory some day.  But...  life goes on  -  and at least the memories will be good ones to hold.

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Mike many of us here feel the same, with time to come you will take on the challenges laying ahead

Still a long way until you are old and "wise ? "

Some sooner

some later

some never 

[SandyB]

Georg .. good and  wise words ... we never grow old .. just wiser .. more experienced amd more able to take on challenge and change ,,,,

[Lance Olivier]

Mike, after spending my first 28 years of life in Omd I can sympathise how you and the rest of the residents feel about the future of the best little oasis in the world. As long as this website keeps going, Omd will remain that little oasis with all it's brilliant memories and great times spent in it's splendour amongst good friends. Don't give up hope Boet, and send me some of that salad (COD is fine hee hee).

[Michael Alexander]

Oh! How ye all mock my awesome potato salad..... I will post the recipe here soon, it's from Ina Paarman for those of you who know the lady....

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

  - it was awesome!

[georg ruf jr.]

Thanks for your thoughts...

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

     I still make the BEST potato salad ever.....my moms recipe....who's Ina Paarman?  202
I'll even take you on for a case of beers Michael.  Very proud of my potato salad....its about all I can cook well.

[Michael Alexander]

er...uhm! Do you use Potato's in your salad then?   

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Thats not funny Michael.......Potato Salad making is a very serious bussiness. 

[DUNJA WRBKA]

Please would you guys be so kind as to share those recipes with us?