Father’s Day last Sunday started with the daughter and two grand-girls bouncing into my bedroom to wake me up with a gift of a lovely bright LED lantern, and two cards from Jeneva as shown. The one, very much her own work, read:
To: The Best Grandfather in the world. Happy
fathers day Les. Thank
you fore being the coolest Les ever.
Thank you for everything you do for
me!. you melt my
heart: from Neevie
16 June
2019
HAPPY father’s DAY Les
The other, in Afrikaans, and obviously a class effort at school:
Liewe. Pappa
Gelukkige Vadersdag
Ek is lief vir Pappa
Liefde Neevie
16 Junie 2019 2H
Then we shot up to the Midlands just past Howick and overlooking Howick Falls, at Yellowwood Café, where we had a very good lunch. Much Better Half and I halved and shared dishes as we usually do for greater variety: asparagus pasta, and a cheesy dish with homemade bread, butter, jam and bacon.
Also overlooked were ponies, sheep and zebra, and a donkey gave Jeneva a bitten and bleeding finger in enthusiasm to be fed. She wept. We have warned her about holding her hand flat. No real damage done.
Hi, I’m Shaun!
(So they really do move their mouths like the TV cartoon character!)
© June 2019 Colonialist
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I love handmade cards, yours are so cute and special. I still make as many as I can.
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Great camping lantern.
Lovely cards, sorry about the bite ;-(
Cute photo of “Shaun” 😉
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Oh, those are lovely cards – they look remarkable similar to the ones that adorn our refrigerator. 🙂 Grandfathers really are very special, I agree!
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oops, remarkably, not remarkable!
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I guessed that was a slip of the fingers!
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Grandchildren that produce such mementos are equally special!
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An excellent day – apart from the bite
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It was!
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Belated Greetings for the day!
I love Jeneva’s cards. Homemade are always the best! 🙂
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Thanks – she loves doing them.
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Ag foeitog die arme klein J – en dit nadat daardie vingertjies so hard aan jou kaartjies gewerk het! ‘n Donkie bly maar ‘n eienaardige dier.
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What a lovely granddaughter you have there Les. she obviously has complete control over The best grandfather in the world 😀
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Gelukkige Vadersdag indeed Col. 😉
(Polishing my Afrikaans… Some is not too hard to understand, with a bit of Dutch)
What do you speak at home? English? Afrikaans or both?
(Like here where we speak 3 languages in the same sentence?)
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Home language is Queen’s English oriented. I try to encourage a bit of Afrikaans but Mbh has forgotten most of what she learned.
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Keep the fight up. 🙂 I lived in Holland for 3 years as a kid. Picked a thing or two in Dutch. So I can guess a few Afrikaans words.
Tot ziens Col. (Oh, how’s the health? recovering slowly?)
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I was impressed at how, in Switzerland, my Afrikaans enabled me to understand and be understood with Dutch and Belgian speakers.
I have just gone into song about the health story!
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There are differences, maybe in vocabulary, or some expressions but I suspect you would have no problem in understanding each other.
I’ll look for the song.
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