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The cold winter months ahead mean more reading..... |
Posted by: nikkinaz - 29-09-2005, 11:44 PM - Forum: The Book Club
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Hi Everyone
Well now that the :braai: are over and the summer is almost gone :leaf: - time to curl up on the sofa :engel: and get buried in a book.
:read: :read: :read:
So what is everyone reading at the moment - what books have you got planned for the hibernating months ?
I have just finished a Mary Higgins Clark book - No Place Like Home. Although not one of her best books, I rather enjoyed this one ! Still exciting psychologically, and a little far fetched - but on the whole still a good thriller!
Synopsis
Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
I have now started The Laments by George Hagen and this promises to be a good novel
A novel which is, like George HagenÂ’s The Laments, about a continent-hopping family might seem like yesterdayÂ’s news when an international upbringing now seems almost de rigueur amongst writers. Yet this is no self-aggrandising romp round the world. Howard LamentÂ’s grand plans for a better life and career lead his family from colonial Rhodesia to a bigoted, hypocritical 1970s New Jersey, via BahrainÂ’s blinkered ex-pat community and a violent small town in England.
The novel spans the eighteen years from WillÂ’s birth and the secret of his adoption by the Laments to his graduation from high school. The first years in Africa provide a solid foundation to the story. It is when Will is a little older, and the family have left the obviously unjust colony that HagenÂ’s skill at peppering the story with culture shocks and mischievous details really enlivens the LamentsÂ’ travels and WillÂ’s friendships and loves.
Luckily the reader is kept chuckling, because Hagen takes us unflinchingly into the depression of HowardÂ’s spectacularly failed career, his wife JuliaÂ’s loneliness and the reality of family poverty. Tragedy never turns to bitterness though, and the charactersÂ’ final, tempered hopefulness is a well-earned haven for this long-adrift family.
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Sampioene |
Posted by: Pronkertjie - 29-09-2005, 02:21 PM - Forum: Praat Afrikaans
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Kampioen swam
So versot was die koninklikes van antieke Egipte oor hierdie kampioen swam dat die man op straat nie toegelaat is om daaraan te raak nie. Sampioene tel moontlik vandag nog onder ons gunsteling groente, maar eintlik is dit 'n swam wat dooie plante eet om aan die lewe te bly.
En gaan kies maar eerder jou sampioene by die plaaslike supermark. Net kundiges kan 'n sampioen in die veld pluk. 'n Verkeerde keuse kan jou met jou lewe laat boet.
Hoe kies jy 'n sampioen in die supermark? Dit moet ferm wees en moet verkieslik net een kleur wees.
Hoewel daar maar nog 'n beperkte verskeidenheid sampioene in Suid-Afrikaanse supermarkte is kry ons darem deesdae ietwat meer as in die verlede:
* Die wit knopiesampioen is die volopste en soms die enigste sampioen by plaaslike winkels. Hulle het 'n ligte houtagtige smaak en is veral geskik vir slaaie.
* Portabello sampioene is 'n gunsteling onder die braaiers. Hulle is groot en geurig met baie vleis.
* Die Crimini is soortgelyk aan die knopiesampioen, maar is donkerder van kleur en het 'n ryk smaak. Dit is veral geskik vir gebruik saam met vleis en souse.
* Oestersampioene is die beste van die supermarkreeks. Hulle het 'n delikate geur en kan rou geëet word net liggies gebraai word.
:chef: Onthou tog dat jy nooit 'n sampioen was nie. Die voedingswaarde, wat meesal in die skil sit, word daardeur geaffekteer. Vee dit af met 'n klam lap.
bron: eklets
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Moet dit nie langer vat nie! |
Posted by: Pronkertjie - 29-09-2005, 07:08 AM - Forum: Christian Faith Praise
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Moet dit nie langer vat nie!
Moeilikheid! Ons almal ken dit. Een of ander tyd ervaar ons dit in ons eie lewe. Dikwels is dit ons beste vriend vir veels te lank. Wel, hou op om dit te vat. Ten minste: moenie ’n moeilikheid-slagoffer wees nie. Moenie in daardie “kry-my-tog-jammer†houding verval nie. Sorg dat die immergroen temalied van baie mense se lewe: “Niemand se lot is so swaar soos myne nie†nooit op jou lippe gehoor word nie.
Kies om jou moeilikheid reg te hanteer. Gaan bespreek dit gereeld met God. Bid! Soek sy aangesig totdat Hy die hemel bokant jou oopmaak. Moenie sy hand los as jy deur die donker stap nie. Volhard enduit. Aan die einde van elke moeilikheid wag daar ‘n groen weiveld. So leer Psalm 23 my. Moeilikheid is eintlik maar net die kort pad, die regte pad onderweg soontoe. Gelukkig loop die Herder van my lewe saam deur die moeilikheid op soek na beter weivelde vir my lewe.
Maak dit vir jou moeilikhede van vandag af bitter moeilik om jou geluk te steel. Sorg dat jy sy aan sy met die goeie Herder, Jesus Christus, stap. Hy is groter as elke moeilikheid. Sy voetspore sien jy altyd bo-op jou probleme. Loop juis daar saam met Hom!
Vrede
Stephan Joubert
http://www.ekerk.co.za
http://www.echurch.co.za
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XTraining |
Posted by: Pronkertjie - 28-09-2005, 04:08 PM - Forum: Your Arcade
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ForumAdmin Wrote:new game added
X-Training
enjoy
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[buzz=1]Help Please![/buzz]
I am not sure if it is working for me....
I click PLAY, then it gives me a score immediately, and then it tells me to submit my score.....
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Edible Landscape |
Posted by: Bushbaby - 28-09-2005, 12:35 PM - Forum: Flora
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It just struck me whilst mulling over what to do with the garden this winter how practical the old boere were when it came to planting up their towns and gardens.
My mother is from the Transvaal (as it was back then) and she remembers that most backyards had apple, fig or pear trees in, usually more than one. She also remembers that the streets were planted with date palms, and sometimes other fruiting trees. How practical is that? The trees fulfill the civic function of beautifying the town and giving shade, but also fulfill a practical function of providing food.
I look to my own housing estate here in Dublin and am impressed with whoever did the tree planting on the estate 18 years ago when it was built - many back gardens have at least an apple tree in them, and along the road in front of the houses there are cherry trees - the type that produce edible fruit, not the ornamental variety.
It makes great sense to combine aesthetics with practical function when planting up a community or garden.
I was wondering how your neighbourhoods/gardens compare, and if there are no fruiting plants in your gardens, what would you plant if you could?
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Flowers |
Posted by: Pronkertjie - 27-09-2005, 05:57 PM - Forum: Flora
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[buzz=2]I need help please![/buzz]
I have been asked to do the flowers and decorations for a wedding in December.
What kind of flowers are available then? Of course there are red ponsettias.... but then I don't want to let it look to Christmassy...
Any ideas anyone?
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New User Add-on introduced |
Posted by: ForumAdmin - 27-09-2005, 07:16 AM - Forum: Forum Information
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Hi ALL
we introduce a new user option. This is how it works, click The Buzz Globe within the TEXT PANEL, once you do this a pop-up will ask you to put a number in .. place either 1 to 3 in the box ... see images below for what each number indicates
Then a another box will appear, place your text within that area
[buzz=1]You should get a result[/buzz]
like above
enjoy and do ask questions
below are what the number you specify will produce what image with your text
[buzz=1]I am #1[/buzz]
[buzz=2]I am #2[/buzz]
[buzz=3]I am #3[/buzz]
Please, test things within this thread before taking it out onto the other forums.
Thank you
ForumAdmin
Note: between the brackets you are able to do the normal things with the fonts, size, colour and text placement
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Plans to improve Arcade |
Posted by: ForumAdmin - 26-09-2005, 09:24 AM - Forum: Your Arcade
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Hi all
we would like to improve the set-up of the games in the arcade so that it will be easier for users to find.
We would like to list the games alphabetically, would this work for you?
Thank you
ForumAdmin
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