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People make many jokes about it. But what can be more beautiful than the dialogue starting at your wedding day?
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Cutting Edge Restoration- What a Car…
Ailsa’s Travel Theme has the theme of “Edge” this week, open for interpretation. So here is my interpretation of “Edge”- the Cutting Edge of Car Restoration…
Today, I have seen this car in Lynnwood road. Pretoria. I just had to stop and take a few photos. it was one of the most beautiful cars I have ever seen. Unfortunately the only camera I had with me was my Samsung Galaxy S3 mobile phone…
But I love to share beauties like this on my blog with my discerning readers…
I have no idea what car this is- there is a Chevy engine peeking out. Who can help with more info on this car?
But thanks to the owner for parking it so majestically outside that people like me can admire it’s beauty!
Action- Weekly Photo Challenge
I saw this Challenge at Nowathome’s blog, and it reminded me of a huge holiday we had in December 2006. This photos was taken at the rocks in front of the Blue Peter Hotel in Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa.
The Point of No Return was reached…
First my eldest, my daughter jumped into the rock pool.
Do you have any idea how cold the Atlantic is here at Bloubergstrand, coming up from the South Pole…?
My Eldest son… Going
Going
nearly gone, gone has disappeared somehow…
My second son
My Friend’s son
So how could my youngest also not try?
This was one of the best days of my entire life! And my kids’ lives too!
Friday morning sex is the best!
I wish… but the original title just won’t attract any readers at all…
It is Friday- my day off usually. But today I have to finish my sermon for Sunday.
Because this afternoon we are going through to Krugersdorp. One of my friends is the headmaster of a very strong rugby school (Monnas), and tonight one of the country’s rugby programs on television, Toks & Tjops, is broadcasting a live show from there. We are invited to be part of the invited guests…
I have never experienced being part of a live television broadcast before. My wife also loves this show, so we are quite excited to be there tonight. We will also have to sleep over. So- my sermon for Sunday must be ready before my wife and kids comes out of school. Then it is off to the big and bad city…
I am sitting at my desk. On my hifi a CD of Beethoven’s Romantic Pieces is playing. Every now and then I look at my facebook status as well. One of my friends just mentioned coffee, it being about 11 am when he did.
So…
A While back Margaret Rose asked how we make our coffee. This is one of my favorite ways, and maybe how my gallbladder got FUBAR in the first place…
But now- the sermon will not finish itself. So… have a great weekend!
Rust- Word a Week Challenge
Every week Sue dips into her Oxford English dictionary and comes up with a word which becomes our challenge… this week it is Rust…
Can do Rust…
Rusty old lantern helped on a bit by Photoscape editing…
Rusty old tractor seat…
Grandpa’s dream car…
Was it Rihanna who sang about junk in her trunk?
Like Sue’s example- long time no sea…
There might be a spot of rust on this Rat Bike… I can’t even see what it was originally…
Our Good Book says that Moth and Rust will be taking it’s toll on everything (Matthew 6: 19 in the Bible), so we must rather invest in things that can last forever- like faith and love, and meaningful relationships…
Alcohol- Sunday Stills
http://sundaystills.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/sunday-stills-the-next-challenge-alcohol/
I ride the Argus Cycle race around Table Mountain every year, (missed this year’s race for the first time in 20 years!) And over the time I have developed some traditions of my own.
After finishing the 110 km race, I usually go to the Victoria and Albert Waterfront of CApe Town, where I usually park my car. On my way from the finish line to the parking lot, I stop at Ferrymans Tavern- one of the oldest buildings in Cape Town. A pub with some old history behind it…
I see I actually don’t have many photos of Ferrymans… I am usually so very tired after that Cycle race…
But one of my favorite beers in the world resides here. Ferryman’s belongs to Mitchells Breweries. And one of their brews is the Bosun’s Bitter. It only contains about 4% alcohol, but it is really a tasty, grainy beer…
There is another story behind the Bosun’s Bitter. I drink it as a toast to my dad.
We did not always have a great relationship. After I finished university, I had to go to the army as all white young men in South Africa had to do. When I finished Army, I had a temporary post at a congregation in the Free State. In that time my uncle was murdered in Durban. This uncle was a real mentor for me since a very young age. We met as a family in Durban, and went to my uncle’s funeral. That evening, my father and I went to a pub, just us two. We sat down in a pub, and had a beer or two together. Mitchell’s Bosun’s Bitter. And we talked like real men to each other, and we had a very constructive father and son experience. The next day we all went home- he and my mother to Newcastle, me and my 7 month pregnant wife to Kroonstad.
I never saw him alive again. Two weeks later he died of a massive heart attack at the age of 54.
Mitchell’s Bosun’s Bitter is a rare beer to find these days in South Africa. The Keg franchise of pubs kept it for years, but I don’t see it there anymore. In Cape Town, I find it at Ferryman’s and at my other favorite watering hole… the Blue Peter Hotel in Bloubergstrand (where I had my honeymoon 24 years ago…)
This is also a beautiful place to see the sun setting over Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years, and over the Atlantic Ocean.
Each time I drink a Bosun’s Bitter, I think of my dad. Sometimes with great regrets. For now I am 7 years younger than he was when he died. I understand much better these days… and I try to connect with my sons in meaningful ways, that they may have memories of me one day to treasure. Hopefully more than one beer…
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Fray (II) Weekly Photo Challenge
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One of the famous landmarks on our favorite Route 62 in South Africa, known by all bikers, is Ronnies Sex Shop…. Between Ladismith and Barrydale.
It is actually a Pub, on a very hot stretch of Karoo desert road. A cold one here really helps a lot to enjoy the route even more. But what does that have to do with “Fray”? Well, inside it is customary to leave some underwear there, especially if you are passing it on your honeymoon. But some of the underwear does show signs of extended use- i.e. being frayed…
To confess: these three photos each comes from different visits to Ronnies, I stop there a lot on my way to Cape Town… Desert road… beer… you know…
Orange: Ailsa’s Travel Theme
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I have been so missing in action around here I will be greeted like a stranger! Hi all you people! I do have some orange photos! Being a Biker, people will immediately assume it will be KTM photos, but no, I am a Beemer fan… but here is an orange bike to satisfy the first impulses:
I think it is a custom Suzuki Boulevard, but Cruisers is not my scene yet, so I might be totally wrong, in which case I sincerely apologise. Seen at the Poison Rally in Kroonstad, South Africa a few years back. But it is a beauty!
Then, living in a rural town of South Africa, we do like agricultural shows around here. And veteran tractors usually gets a lot of attention…
A Minneapolis Moline, far far away from home…
Next on the orange list: a Sunset silhouette- I should have entered this one in last week’s Photo Challenge!
Nature at it’s most beautiful orange best at sunset…
A foreign country, no, not Holland… in Ireland, in the harbor town of Kinsale:
An orange art shop…
A favorite South African flower, the Namaqualand Daisy, comes in two colours, one being…
To finish off: another Bike of legend- the Original Bullet 500
And there is my take on some of my orange moments in life. A last one- me, a few years back and a bit heavier than today, in one of my favorite sweaters- this one I use when hiking in the Drakensberg Mountains, so that the helicopter can see me and rescue me if necessary… camping on the rugby field at Jeffreys Bay, one of THE surfing beaches in the world…
And there you have my Seven Shades of Orange for today’s challenge!
Frayed- Weekly Photo Challenge
The one thing I love to visit, is a working fishing harbor. And usually you will find some worn out, frayed fishing nets.
This photo was taken back in 1999 in a fishing harbor in Turkey, with my old Canon A1 35 mm film camera:
Water- Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge
I am totally stuck in a writers block of epic proportions. But this is a good challenge!
My Photo will not win any photographic prizes. It just shows some family fun on water, back in 2008…
But maybe those are the best times in my life, when I just enjoy the moment, without worrying about taking a perfect photo. And just enjoying my children.
The Rider 