Riaan en Kari Doorduin: November 2011

28 November 2011

Slanghoed

Vincent is so 'n gelukkige knapie. 'n Mens kan enigeiets met hom aanvang, en hy speel lekker saam. Behalwe as hy moeg of honger is...

22 November 2011

Siekbed

Ek en Riaan was altwee siek met 'n verkoue-tipe virus vir so 5 dae. Nie te maklik met 'n kleintjie nie. So het ek en Vincent groot dele van die dag spandeer.

Vincent leer twee hande vat

Sommige dinge moet maar net met twee hande aangepak word.

kinners

Net so twee fototjies van Vincent se maatjies

Dirk hou van Vincent se bandana

En Colyn wonder waar is Dirk se bandana?

21 November 2011

Lyk of ons ondergronds gegaan het...

.... want hier is nog 'n video...:

19 November 2011

TED: Alexander Tsiaras - Conception to birth

Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized | Video on TED.com Hierdie is 'n ongelooflike video. En ek dink hy som my gevoel oor die geboorte proses baie mooi op! Ek is nogsteeds in verwondering oor dit alles.

Hudson Musiek Video

Nogal 'n oulike musiek video....

Hudson - Against The Grain from Dropbear on Vimeo.

06 November 2011

Grande Roche

Ons het lekker Sondag oggend gou 'n ontbytjie gaan eet by die Grande Roche hier in ons ou agterplasie.
Wat 'n deftige afêre. Maar die kos (omelet) en koffie was goed, uitsig great en geselskap van uitstaande gehalte... so ons sal weer gaan!

01 November 2011

Tea Under the Trees

Die weeklikse Doorduin - Van Daalen uitstappie was vandag na 'n pragtige plaas in Noorder Paarl - waar mens onder massiewe akkerbome in 'n baie mooi groen en welige tuin kan sit en tee drink. (Hulle het koffie ook - ons het dit probeer net omdat dit baie belangrik is om te weet hoe elke plek waareen ons gaan se koffie smaak. Ek was dom genoeg om 'n cupochino met room te vat - meer room as koffie). Daar is baie baie soorte tees, though - en by 'n plek met die naam Tea under the Trees, moet mens seker eerder die tee vat.

Ons kinders het bietjie rose gekyk en geruik, en ek moet so baie fotos post want hulle is net almal SO mooi!

Pa en seun

Aaag is dit nie 'n pragtige fototjie nie?? Al kyk Vincent vir sy ma en nie vir die kamera nie.

Juno's middagete saam met die Bootsma's

Dit was die Bootsma's se tweede laaste dag in Paarl, en ons het 'n stappie gaan maak in die hoofstraat af om die tafels te sien wat vir Cultivaria gedek sou wees (het ek gedink). Nadat ons 'n redelike entjie van Riaan se werk af gestap het, en by die Cultivaria kantoor gaan inloer het, kom ons toe agter die etery was reeds Donderdagaand, en nie Saterdagaand soos ek gedink het nie. Toe gaan lunch ons maar by Juno's.

Vincent het die Cultivaria tydskriffie van voor tot agter deurgelees.

Nog 'n suurlemoen-episode.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein

"He who cannot draw on 3000 years is living from hand to mouth." -Goethe

"When confronted with a work of art, we have to open our minds to allow it to carry us away. If we seek to relate intimately to another person, we have to be prepared to make ourselves vulnerable.." - Karen Armstrong

I wanted to live everywhere and smell, taste, feel everything. I wanted to go to sea, explore unknown lands, take off in a space rocket, dine only at all-you-can-eat restaurants, be the last to leave parties. What I couldn’t acknowledge then, and hardly now, is that life just isn’t like that for most of us. The quicksands of suburbia were lurking at every step, and those who broke on through to the sunlit uplands couldn’t find their way back, even when the poverty and lack of enthusiasm for climbing means they wanted to come back. It was the dream of an immature young man, which is exactly what I was.
My eyes would be drawn inevitably to the low ridge of purple hills that ringed the east side of Manchester. The weight of the city; of all those people moving on their tiny arcs across its concrete streets, would be lifted for a moment. That place, over there in those hills, was somewhere I could feel alive, where the moment of release could give me the clarity to understand unconsciously that poetry, prophecy, and religion are all one.

- Ed Douglas: Voices from the Summit, 2000

Nog quotes

Behold the guarantee - the bold print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls. If thou art in the bath, it tolls for thee.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan..

His handshake ought not to be used except as a tourniquet.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

The world is moving so fast these days, that men who says it can't be done are generally interrupted by men who are doing it.

Pioneers are the people with the arrows in their backs.

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