And?!?: April 2013

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Cicero

Hi all! How is your final Tuesday and day of April 2013? Where did the year go? It is the 120th day of 2013, today, and there are only 245 days left in this year! Oh carp! (I wrote carp but you read crap, why? this strange mind phenomenon was explained in an email I once received - the mind only needs to read the first and last letters in a word in the correct order and the letters in the middle can be any which way you want! and you can still make out what is written)

so ltets see if you you can do tihs? Tomorrow three is no hsopcie shop, as it is a pbuilc hloiday here in Suoth Arifca.

I clloeted my R31 win on my Staruady Lorttey tckiet tdoay. Sitll aaiwtnig my big win!

I hvae put the lmeon cihcekn recpiee I am ckoonig tihs week on one of my ohter blogs. Lemon Chicken

Well back to normal English the other version is not as easy to type!

Have a fantastic day further folks!

signing off
Ciao
DAVE

Sunday, April 28, 2013

YO!

Saturday, April 27, 2013

beauty

An old man was going for a walk, when he noticed a little boy feeding a thin, shaggy looking dog with bits of bread. He went up to the boy and asked him why he was sharing his bread with the dogs.
The little boy answered, "Because they have nothing. No home, no family, and if I don’t feed them they will die." “But there are homeless dogs everywhere," the old man replied. “So your efforts don’t really make a difference” The little boy looked at the dog and stroked him. “But for this little dog, it makes all the difference in the world.”

Friday, April 26, 2013

great idea!

I thought it worth sharing with you that a project to inject South Africa's Rhino's horns with a deadly toxin and dye is...

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Quoting

"Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority." William Arthur Ward

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The book room where all the donated books are kept before they are priced and put into the shop. (usually by moi)

Children's Clothes that are waiting to be priced and put on the clothes racks (not my department)

Hi all how is your day?

It is a lovely sunny and warm day here in Blouberg today.

Yes, as always it was my volunteering, for hospice,Wednesday morning "job".

Have a fantastic day further folks.

Signing off

Ciao
DAVE

Saturday, April 20, 2013

me thinks!

wise words

"Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." Unkowm

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

wise words?

Shoppers at 248 Bloubergroad (St, Luke's Hospice shop) at 11 ish this morning,

I bet next door would be amazed to see just how much time in a day their cat Romeo
spends in my home!?!

This was terrible!

You go girl!!!!

Hi all from a rainy and cool Blouberg, today.

How is your day?

Have a super day further folks.

Signing off

Ciao
DAVE

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

humans? Gotta love em?

Monday, April 15, 2013

meeow

i phone

Hi all! How is your Monday?

It is a lovely sunny day here in Bloubergstrand today, it is however getting cooler and it was cloudy most of the morning, winter commeth!

News for justin bieber

Justin Bieber hoped 'great girl' Anne Frank 'would have been a Belieber'

The Independent ‎- 2 hours ago

Justin Bieber hopes Anne Frank “would have been a Belieber,” according to a message the teenage pop star allegedly wrote in the guestbook ...

Anne Frank 'would have been a belieber'

How insulting? She liked good music! Do not speak for anybody Justin?

Well that's me for today! Have a great day further folks!

Signing off

Cioa

DAVE

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Great!

political cartoon about Mandela's family fighting about who gets to claim what from THE MAN

Friday, April 12, 2013

smells like!

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Thursday quote

"It's never crowded along the extra mile." - Wayne Dyer

Have ya

Every morning I long to hold you,I need you,I want you,I have to have you!
Your warmth,your smell,your taste.........
Oh Coffee, I love you!!!! ;-)

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

248 Blouberg Road

Volunteers Linda Vos (at the left of this pic., laughing) Brenda Wilson ( infront of Naomi - she (Brenda) is holding up the sheet to hide her face) and Naiomi, in the room where donations of goods (everything except clothes,books and toys) are kept for pricing.

Linda Vos, with goods behind her on the shelves and the kitchen( to the rear of the fan)

Hi all! How is your Wednesday?

Have a great day further folks.

Signing off

Ciao
DAVE

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

tuesday oh tuesday

Hi all! How is your Tuesday?

It is a super sunny day at the moment here today. Last night and this morning there was quite a bit of rain, why is it that just as you put your washing out to dry, the heavens open, but the sun comes back just after you have taken it all inside again? Go figure!?!

Tomorrow it's my 248 Blouberg Road (St. Luke's Hospice shop) 3 hour, once a week volunteer job for another Wednesday in 2013.

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." - Don Marquis

Have a superb day further folks.

Signing off

Ciao
DAVE

Qotes I Like

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Elanor Roosevelt

"Success isn't about how your lfe looks to others. It's about how it feels to you." - Michelle Obama

"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." - Brene Brown

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." - Oprah Winfrey

"When you talk you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new." - Dalai Lama

"Time is a created thing. To say "I don't have time." is like saying "I don't want to." - Leo Tzu

About me!

My Afrikaans teacher, who was Miss Liebenberg when I was at St. John's College, in the late 90's (1994-end of 1996) and other people I know, have in the past, asked me why I don't have my full story on my blog, as my story is one that would help inspire others facing a similar situation.

So here we go folks- In December 1996 I started getting blinding headaches and became very photo phobic, my pupils were hugely dilated. I never really got headaches before then. We were on holiday at the Sugar Beach Hotel, in Mauritius, when my life changed forever. On our return my situation just kept getting worse and I went temporarily blind from the pressure behind my eyes my tumour caused. Christmas 1996 was absolutely nightmarish for me. I did not know what was going on with my body - I thought I was facing my last days here on earth.

On 15 January 1997 (I can never forget this date), the day school started for that year, I was in Hospital having Brain Surgery to try and remove my tumour. Thank God it was too firmly routed to my brain stem for this to be done. According to my Neuro Surgeon (who will remain Anon.) he tried everything to remove it but it was not possible - I haemoraged and he panicked. Had they been able to get it out my left side would have become my right side in my minds thinking. I distinctively remember waking up from surgery in the operating theatre and puking into my oxygen mask. I lost my speech for several months, my ability to walk (to this day I limp as my left leg is not in sync with the right side of my body), I could not use the toilet for months and was in agony as neither end (a bit graphic) but what the worked as my brain was not correctly sending the signal to my netherlands- so I could not get rid of my body's waste. It was a long and crap year 1997 and trying to survive. I was on a tv programme on SABC1 (I believe, you believe?) in June 1997 and a month later, my mom, dad and me went to Australia. OZ (We flew to Perth on SAA) is a nine hour flight from Johannesburg and a twelve (12) hour flight back to Johannesburg? Strong head winds on the return flight. (one of life's odd stats.?) On our return I started getting rapidly worse again. The Oncology doctor gave me a diagnosis of three weeks to live in December 1997 as there was nothing more he could do for me. - I gave my oncology Doctor Martin Chassen a hug - he started crying. Well I guess only God knows how long you will be around?

I turn 38 on 21 November of this year (2018), I have not seen a doctor for years, I do not take any medication, but only vitamins and I am still here! I have tremendous faith in God. I believe all religions are equal, in the way that the basis of all religions is of a higher power, a god, the way you choose to practice your faith is up to you. I am a Catholic Christian and know 100% that I would not have survived what I did without God, Strangers awesome healing prayers (they prayed for me in churches, mosques and Synagogues my family's parish Priest Father Leithem sent a petition to our Lady of Medjugorje in Croatia and used to bring me aloe vera mixed with Grapa that a parishoner used to make for me. A boy (he's 39 now) from St. John's College, Anthony Spanjaard, told me about these vitamins his mom sold. I took them in a large dosage (16) a day at first to boost my immune system. I prayed like mad and voila.

This I have no answer for and for many years I felt guilty - why did I survive my cancer and many other people do not. Go figure?

DAVE