Sloppy dressers

When did we become so sloppy in our dress?

When I was young, boys and men's trousers were tailor made to fit.

While I was waiting for someone outside a busy shopping center, I noticed how ugly the foot and leg wear of most Tableviewers are.
People's ankles have a wrinkly-neck appearance with the ugliest footwear to round it off.
Did this sloppiness happen because women are working and no longer have the time to shorten trouser legs?
Are the shops selling only clothes modeled on tall people? (Which means all normal size and short people looks untidy)?
Are people no longer fashion conscious?
Do people have an untidy consciousness?
Do we consider appearance to be unimportant?
Is untidiness sexy?

I don't know what the answer is, but next time you find yourself waiting for someone at a shopping center, just do an ankle study and you will see what I mean.
People no longer dress their ankles up.
It is as if we are not interested in anything below the knees.

My Christmas tree a Tumbleweed

2008

My Christmas tree is Tumbleweed.

When we were very little, back in the 50's and 60's, my father used to go to the bush and saw a branch from a pine tree for our Christmas tree.

Later he bought a tree (branch) from someone selling it at the road-side.

Later still whole baby trees were sold for Christmas.

I cannot remember when I saw the first plastic tree, but fake ones were never a consideration in our home - not until I went to England in the seventies.

It took some time to get used to white plastic trees also. Green ones looked more natural.

Since I was in control of choosing and decorating my own tree, after I got married, I never wanted a "dead" tree for Christmas.

"Killing a tree for Christmas was just not my thing.

I would buy a tree growing in a pot. It did not necessary have to be a pine tree. If I did not buy one specially, I would choose one from my collection of pot plants.

My hobby is to bonsai trees grown from seeds or baby trees found growing wild.

Sooner or later I allow them to grow up and they get planted out into my garden. If they are lucky they become my Christmas tree before being planted out.

This year I was pondering on which pot plant to use for a Christmas tree, when a tumbleweed came rolling down the road and landed at my feet.

It was as if it was begging me: "Choose me, please, please." "Let me be pretty before I go to the garbage can."

So this year my Christmas tree is tumbleweed.

"My Christmas tree a tumble weed" sounds like a good title for book.

Ladies turn

Today I do not have one political opinion in my head.
Ziltz!

• COPE IS COPING

• THE "ANC" IS "LOOK & SEE" what their next blocking move is going to be.

• The lady politicians are sitting on the sideline and waiting for the boys to kill themselves OR each other.

So everything is hunky dory in "The Days of Our Lives" in the live South African political soapy.

We are starting to get more Google hits than Mugabe.

Perhaps the girls should group together and form one strong united party with a strong name. They should have a good chance of winning the election as one team. A name like TOP should do it "The One Party"

Of wat praat ek alles.

Are we eating Africa?

It is a scorcher today, here in Cape Town.

When I suggested to my husband that the least the conservationists in the area could do was to put monitors on duty to keep people and dogs away from the Oystercatchers, that are in their breeding season, here on our beaches. His reply was: "Wat jy waar gaan kry? "(*1) He said that the conservationists are spread too thinly and the other workers would not work over the weekends.

Perhaps we should be grateful that this is Blaauwberg and not Zimbabwe.

In Zimbabwe those little Oystercatcher eggies and chicks would have looked very inviting on the breakfast frying pan, especially if the Oystercatcher was lying next to it. People would kill for such a feast. When one's own life is endangered by starvation; Who cares about the life of a bird?

Could you imaging what would happen if the resource mismanagement strategies from Zimbabwe has a domino effect in other African nations?

If the Armageddon and a global meltdown is not upon us, could you imagine a "heaven on earth" in first world countries with the balancing factor of "hell on earth" in Africa?

Could "Die geween en die kners van tande(*2)" that the Bible predicts, run concurrently with the "Heaven on earth" which is also mentioned in the same scripture?

If we eat, tread on, and build on everything that makes Africa unique, is it possible that Africa will in the, not so distant, future, become a cesspool of disease, crime and dust with no clean water or food?

Already the symbol of the "African lion" and "the wildlife paradise in Africa" is being replaced by the image of dying babies suckling from empty breasts with flies looking for a bit of moisture in their eyes and on their dry, cracking lips.

All African leaders should study what is happening in Zimbabwe and what was the turning point for this prosperous country, and then make sure it does not happen on their own turf.

One cannot blame the first world and past inhumanities any more. We need to look at recent history and blame ourselves. The first world countries poured multi-billions into Africa and created quite a number of billionaires, but how much of that money filtered down to the people it was intended for?

The African leaders have never been so rich and the people never so poor.

Even during the days of slavery, most people had food on the table and many more ate very well.

Translation: Afrikaans to English.

*¹(Wat jy waar kry? - where would they come from?)

*²(Geween en kners van tande - Weeping and grinding of the teeth)

Most people in South Africa are bilingual and mix expressions from two or three languages in one sentence. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new South African language. A rainbow nation lingo.

Father's Love Letter

I received this letter in a Christmas card.

Father's Love Letter

My Child...

You may not know me, but I know everything about you.-.. Psalm 139:1

I know when you sit down and when you rise up.-.. Psalm 139:2

I am familiar with all your ways.-.. Psalm 139:3

Even the very hairs on your head are numbered.-.. Matthew 10:29-31

For you were made in my image.. - Genesis 1:27

In me you live and move and have your being. .-.Acts 17:28

For you are my offspring.- ..Acts 17:28

I knew you even before you were conceived.-..Jeremiah 1:4-5

I chose you when I planned creation..-. Ephesians 1:11-12

You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book.-.. Psalm 139:15-16

I deteimmed the exact time of your birth and where you would live.-..Acts 17:26

You are fearfully and wonderfully made.-.. Psalm 139:14

I knit you together in your mother's womb.-.. Psalm 139:13

And brought you forth on the day you were born.-.. Psalm 71:6

I have been misrepresented by those who don't know me..-. John 8:41-44

I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love..-. I John 4:16

And it is my desire to lavish my love on you..-. I John 3:1

Simply because you are my child and I am your father...- I John 3:1

I offer you more than your earthly father ever could..-. Matthew 7:11

For I am the perfect father..-. Matthew 5:48

Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand.-. James 1:17

For I am your provider and I meet all your needs.-. Matthew 6:31-33

My plan for your future has always been filled with hope..-.Jeremiah 29:11

Because I love you with an everlasting love.-.. Jeremiah 31:3

My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore.-.. Psalm 139:17-18

And I rejoice over you with singing.-.. Zephaniah 3:17

I will never stop doing good to you..-. Jeremiah 32:40

For you are my treasured possession... Exodus 19:5

I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul..-. Jeremiah 32:41

And I want to show you great and marvelous things.- ..Jeremiah 33:3

If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me..-. Deuteronomy 4:29

Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart. -..Psalm 37:4

For it is I who gave you those desires.-.. Philippians 2:13

I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine..-. Ephesians 3:20

For I am your greatest encourager... 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles.-.. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you.-.. Psalm 34:18

As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart. .-.Isaiah 40:11

One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes..-. Revelation 21:3-4

And I’ll take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth.-.. Revelation 21:3-4

I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus..-. John 17:23

For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed. .-.John 17:26

He is the exact representation of my being... Hebrews 1:3

He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you.-. Romans 8:31

And to tell you that I am not counting your sins.-.. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19

Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled.-.. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19

His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you.-. I John 4:10

I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love..-. Romans 8:31-32

If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me.-.. I John 2:23

And nothing will ever separate you from my love again.. - Romans 8:38-39

Come home and I’ll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen..-. Luke 15:7

I have always been Father, and will always be Father..-. Ephesians 3:14-15

My question is... Will you be my child?.-.. John 1:12-13

I am waiting for you.-.. Luke 15:11-32

Love, Your Dad. Almighty God

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