Slim Jannie - Afrikaanse Grapie

Jannie is in Gr.1 en sy Engelsjuffrou het probleme met hom.

Jannie meen hy's te slim vir Gr.1 en wil na Gr.3 oorgeplaas word.

Sy suster is in Gr.3 en Jannie reken hy is baie slimmer as sy.

Die juffrou het genoeg gehad en vat hom na die skoolhoof.

Die hoof sê hy gaan Jannie toets.As hy druip,bly hy in Gr.1.



Hoof:"Wat is 3x3?"

Jannie :"9"

Hoof:"Wat is 6x6?'

Jannie :"36"

So gaan dit aan totdat die juffrou die hoof vra of sy nie

maar vir Jannie `n paar vrae in Engels kan vra nie

Juffrou:"What does a cow have four of that I have only two of?"

Jannie :"Legs"

Juffrou:"What do you have in you pants that I don't have?"

Jannie :"Pockets"

Juffrou:"What starts with a c and ends with a t, is
hairy,oval,delicious and contains a thin,whitish liquid?"

Die hoof vee die sweet van sy voorkop af

Jannie :"Coconut"

Juffrou:"What goes in hard and pink and comes out soft and sticky?"

Jannie :"Bubblegum"

Juffrou:"What does a man do standing up, a woman do sitting downand a dog does on three legs?"

Jannie :"Shake hands"

Juffrou:"Now I'll ask some 'Who am I sort of questions, okay?"

Jannie :"Yup"

Juffrou:You stick your pole inside me. You tie me down to get me up. I get wet before you.

Jannie :"A tent"

Juffrou: A finger goes into me.You fiddle with me when you're bored. The best man always has me first

Die hoof lyk baie gespanne.

Jannie :"wedding ring"

Juffrou: I come in many sizes. When I'm not well I drip. When you blow me you feel good.

Jannie :"Nose"

Juffrou:I have a stiff shaft. My tip penetrates. I come with a quiver.

Jannie :"Arrow"

Juffrou: What starts with a F ends with a K that means a lot of excitement?

Jannie :"firetruck

Die hoof sê: Sit die klein bliksem in Gr.5 Ek het die laaste 10 antwoorde verkeerd gehad!!!!!!!

Direct Male line to me from 1677'ish

Follow the line of bold names

If you believe you are related to me please leave a comment

Stamvader: Pieter Willem van Heerden gedoop 10/123/1677 in Heerde, Nederland –oorlede 1763. Moontlik die seun van Willem Hendrix en Aeltje Hendrix.

Trou 1708 met

Magtilt (Magdalena) van der Merwe. Oorlede 1765

Kinders:

1. Willem ;gebore 1709 oorlede 1767. Trou 1730 Martha van der Merwe gebore 1713 oorlede 1784.
2. Elsie, oorlede 1757 . getroud met Willem van der Merwe
3. Jacob. gebore 1715 en jonk oorlede
4. Hendrik gebore 1712 . Verdwyn van Monsterrolle 1734
5. Aletta. gebore 1718. trou met C.Ernst
6. Jacoba gebore 1720 trou met G van der Merwe
7. Jacobgebore 1720 trou met Anna Jordaan
8. Helena gebore 1722 trou met JH Steenkamp
9. Sophia gebore 1722 trou met J Jordaan
10. Petrus Johannes gebore1727 jonk dood
11. Petronella gebore 1729 trou met JS Müller
12. Maria gebore 1733

Kinders van Willem van Heerden (gebore 1709) en Martha van der Merwe:

1. Pieter Willem gebore 1731 oorlede 1785 trou met Anna Sophia van der Merwe
2. Schalk Willem gebore1722 oorlede 1793 trou 1752 met Louisa van der Merwe
3. Magtilt gedoop 1734 oorlede 1752 getroud a) SW van der Merwe,b) SW du Toit
4. Hendrik gebore 1736 getroud a)A van der Merwe, b) AS van dr Merwe, c) A Lategaan
5. Isaac gebore 1737 getroud a) M Theron, b) GW de Vos
6. Anna Sophia gebore 1739 getroud P van der Merwe
7. Jacobus gebore 1740 trou met S.Theron
8. Carel gebore 1742 trou met M van der Merwe
9. Roelof gebore 1744 trou met MS Pretorius
10. David gebore 1747 trou met Martha Pienaar
11. Elsje gebore 1755
12. Petrus Johannes gebore 1758 trou met MM Myburgh

Kinders van Schalk Willem gebore 1732 en Louisa van der Merwe;

1. Willem Schalk gebore 1757 oorlede 1836 trou 1777Johanna Adriana Vorster gebore 1769?
2. Jacobus (Willem Schalk) gebore 1758 0orlede 1813 trou 1779 Anna Catherina Esterhuyzen gebore 1763 oorlede 1842
3. Catherina Elisabeth gebore 1763 trou IS van der Merwe
4. Schalk Willem gebore 1766
5. Martha Sophia gebore 1772 trou a) B Burger en b) A Smit
6. Anna Magdalena gebore 1773 oorlede 1846 trou met W Burger
7. Schalk Willem gebore 1775 oorlede 1809 trou 1797 Johanna Elisabeth Vorster
8. Elsie Johanna gebore 1778 trou met CA van der Merwe
9. Louisa Maria gebore 1784 trou met JP Meinties

Kinders van Jacobus (1758) en Anna Catherina Esterhuyzen:

1. Jacobus Schalk gebore 1781 oorlede 1840 trou a) MS van Heerden b) AS van Heerden weduwee van der Merwe
2. Engela Louisa gebore 1783
3. Johannes Hendrik gebore 1786 oorlede 1854 trou 1806 AS van Heerden gebore 1788 oorlede 1862
4. Anna Louisa gebore 1790 oorlede 1854 trou met van der Merwe
5. Willem Frederich gebore 1792 trou Martha ? van Heerden
6. Martha Sophia Elisabeth trou met Burger
7. Roelof Erasmus gebore 1797 trou met a)Martha Christina Weideman gebopre 1790 oorlede 1845 b) RJC Erasmus
8. Andries Petrus gebore 1798 trou AMM Esterhuyzen
9. Engela Susanna gebore 1801 trou CS van Heerden
10. Carel Jacobus gebore 1805

Kinders van Roelof Erasmus (1797) en Martha Christina Weideman:

1. Martha Christina
2. Jacobus Schalk gebore 1825 oorlede 1900 trou Susanna Magdalena Weideman gebore 1826 oorlede 1917
3. Anna Catherina gebore 1834

Kinders van Jacobus Scalk (1825) en Susanna Magdalena Weideman:

1. Roelof Erasmus trou met ACM van der Merwe
2. Magtel Susanna gebore 1849
3. Petrus Jacobus trou met Johanna Christina Badenhorst
4. Martha Christina trou met Uys
5. Anna Sophia gebore 1869
6. Willem Johannes Lodewicus
7. Jacob Andreas Cornelius gebore 1855 oorlede 1882 trou Johanna Maria Catherina van der Linden oorlede 1926
8. Jacobus Schalk trou met Wilhelmina Jacoba Badenhorst
9. Sophia trou met Lotz

Kinders van Jacob Andreas Cornelius (1855) en Catherina van der Linden:

1. Elsie Wilhelmina gebore 1873
2. Jacobus Schalk
3. Jacob Andreas Cornelius gebore 1878 oorlede 1968 trou met Mary Jane West gebore 1881 oorlede 1954
4. Susanna Magdalena gebore 1880
5. Gerrit Johannes?? Gert Jaqcobus Alwyn gebore 1877
6. Johanna Maria gebore 1883

Kinders van Jacob Andreas Cornelius (1878) en Mary Jane West:

1. Jacob Andreas Cornelius gebore 1902 oorlede 1970 trou 1933 met Anna Sophia Magdalena van den Berg gebore 1914 oorlede 1999
2. William Claudius West gebore 1905 trou met ? du Plooy
3. Jacobus Schalk gebore 1906 trou Jessie Cawood
4. George John Beattie gebore 1909 trou Martha Maria Botha
5. Gert Johannes Alwyn gebore 1913 trou met Sara Catherina Potgieter


6. Daniel Francis van Heerden - born 04 May 1917 Died 13 January 1998
   married 5 September 1942
   Anwyn Roësch Burger - born 22 October 1921 Died 19 July 1999
7. Christiaan Johan trou met Anna Elisabeth Richter
8. Aangenome dogter Mary Jane West trou met Webb-Stock

Kinders van Daniel Francis gebore 1917 trou met Anwyn

1. Cornelius Andries van Heerden (Corrie) trou Elsa Marie de Villiers in Johannesburg Suid Afrika. 
   Cornelius Andries (Corrie) is skielik oorlede in 1988 in a kar ongeluk waarin die hele gesin betrokke was.
   Elsa de Villiers het toe getrou met Izak Daniel Piek, en het ook 2 ouer sussies aan die gesig geheg (Izanre Piek en Elana Piek). Daar was nou 5 kinders in die gesin.
2. Jakkie van Heerden trou met Annemarie
3. Magda van Heerden trou met Joe Meyer

Kinders van Cornelius Andries van Heerden en Elsa Marie deVilliers

1. Daniel Francis van Heerden ... (ME) married Heather Marguerite Machanick Did a BSC IT at Rand Afrikaans University (Now UJ) and working as a Computer Programmer. Born and grew up in South Africa, and lived most of his 20s in the UK with his wife. (See the rest of the blog).  He moved to Perth Australia in 2013 shortly after the birth of Daniel Cornelius van Heerden.
2. Frank Graham van Heerden. Works for a Christian relief organization and lives in Roodepoort in Johannesburg, Honeydew.
3. Cornelius Andries van Heerden Studying Classical Cultures at Univerity of Johannesburg. Is a guitar player and computer training.

Kinders van Daniel Francis van Heerden en Heather Marguerite Machanick.

1. Daniel Cornelius van Heerden (Named after Cornelius Andries van Heerden and Izak Daniel van Heerden) was born on 31st of May 2012 in the UK at West Middlesex hospital near Twickenham in the UK. His parents were living in Stawberry Hill (11 Roymount Court) at the time, but moved with him to Australia when he was 8 months old.

Capetown Trip

Me, Heather and her Scottish friend decided to do a trip down to Capetown at the end of 2006. It would be my first trip down to Capetown and I was 25 at the time. I know shameless for a South African to see London before Capetown.
Nevertheless off we went to the airport and down to Capetown. We landed and as with most trips in a country with horrific public transport we went in search of the car hire. We had booked the cheapest thing we could and we were half expecting an old crappy car without even a radio in it. Lucky for us those where out of stock. So we got a nice little City Golf with a radio which we could hook up to my iTrip and we were set.

We made our way the long way around from the airport to Kommetjie on the South West coast going past Chapman's peak. The stunning little cliff side road has spectacular views over the ocean alongside the mountain.

We arived at our little chalet in Kommetjie and we were pleasantly surprised with the size of the place. It had a large kitchen, separate lounge and the next morning we discovered we had a sea view just across the rooves of a couple of Cape Dutch style cottages.

The first morning we set out for some tanning on Clifton Beach. As beaches go its a very nice, clean beach. The day we were there a couple of youghts were parked just off shore. Me an Jen went down to the water to attempt a swim. We didn't get in much deeper than the soles of our feet though.

After the beach we all went to la Med for Lunch and even though we took all precautions on the beach to avoid sunburn, we kinda neglected it sitting outside at lunch. So despite knowing better me and Heather both ended up with a sunburn on our first day. Jen escaped this somehow, in fact she escaped getting sun burnt at all.

We decided to go visit Heather's cousin and we ended up going with them to the botanical gardens in Capetown. Apparently there are frequent concerts held there where local bands perform. So we spent the late afternoon sitting listening to "fishbowl" with the great table mountain as a backdrop.













We also had a fantastic day at Table mountain. The sky was fantastically clear and we could see forever. The cable car ride up the mountain was also quite amazing. You just see the rock face of the mountain approaching and if you look down you see people on the trails below like ants scurrying up the mountain manually. I'll try it one day....

Boulders beach was not only a cool place to see penguins but also the only beach we were on where swimming was possible. Well it possible in allot of places but if you wanna go into the water in lots of places the Cape your braver than I am. The penguins weren't as eager as I was to make friends tho.

Project Management Cartoon

To all those software developers out there. I doubt there is a cartoon that better describes the current industry than this one.



PS. I'm also a software developer.

Road tripping through wales. Part 1

It was July 2005 or maybe April and me and some friends decided to go on a road-trip through wales. The group consisted primarily out of me, Jurie, Jo and Jo's brother. Jurie I met at the British embassy where we were applying for our UK Holiday Visa's and we kept in touch and became friends. Me and Heath and him later had a house share together in South Fields in London. Jurie got me into the Hillsong church in London and I went to coffee with a bunch of the people where we met Jo. Jo's brother was living somewhere else in England so we didn't know him before the Holiday. So off we go to Paddington station, which is where we met up with Jo's brother. We were cutting it a bit close and we didn't really know how close until the train started moving just seconds after we boarded. So we paused a second to breathe a sigh of relief and then settled down for the trip to Cardiff. The trip was rather uneventful and not many people like reading about a train trip so... We arrived at Cardiff and now we needed our car. Much to our disgust the car rental place turned out to be quite a walk away from the train station. Over the river under a bridge (or no wait we thought we needed to go under the bridge) back through the station to the other side, over the river across the busy road and down it for a while. And finally the car rental place. On my walk however I noticed something. Now don't laugh but I noticed allot of red dragons. It was only later that I realized their flag actually had the red dragon on it. Something about it being good luck to carry a red dragon into battle. So we got our car, a nice diesel Volkswagen and off we went to... Erm well we didn't really decide that part yet. So I suggested we head West because I'd very much like to see Skomer island and a puffin. Which is as close to a cross between a parrot and a duck you can get. Or rather as close as I've ever seen. So off we went westbound. Our first stop was at the The Gower Peninsula. I'd lie if I said I didn't have to go look that one up on Google. It was rather unimpressive. We arrived there at low tide and the water was way back leaving only a muddy beach behind. So we took pictures and went back to where we illegally parked using a parking ticket we bought further down the coast.

So off we went, our next stop was Mumbles. Which is called that because the sailors back in the day thought it resembled a woman's breasts. I thought they seemed a bit uneven for that but I guess if you've been at sea for a couple of months...
Mumbles was a quite little coastal town with nice little cafes and lots of hills. On the top of the one hill lay Mumbles castle.
We had some lunch and sat on the hill overlooking Mumbles. Before heading off again.

As castles go Wales has got allot of castles. In fact as far as I know it has the most castles per square hectare in the world. We stopped over a bunch of them on our trip. I honestly can't remember the names of all of them. I know one of them was Carmarthen Castle and of coarse the Cardiff Castle. But after seeing about five of them if starts getting a bit much for one trip.




I read that three cliffs bay was a very beautiful place. So after driving up and down the same road about 3 times, with Buttercup Baby playing on the radio we finally found the path that would take us down to the bay. It was quite a walk along a long maze like passage all the way down to the coast with an occasional break in the foliage to get a glimpse of sheep farms down in a valley below. It was quite beautiful.
We eventually came to the end of the path and it was quite spectacular. Mostly for size but beauty was definitely also a factor. We never went down into the bay since it looked like it would take an hour to walk down there but we took a couple of photo's and just admired the view. If you click on the photo below and view it at a larger scale you'll notice someone walking on the beach inside the horse shoe shape of the lagoon, this is just a small indication of the size of the bay.

Wearing the mask

If you ever go through Chemo therapy and you going through it for a substatial amount of time. You will at some point be required to wear a mask. Like one of those little doctors ones you see on ER.

I have to admit that personally I'm not a fan of it. But then I doubt anybody who is required to wear it is. Also considering the fact that without it I will probably have some insignificant little germ hospitalize me, I shouldn't really compain. The worse part about not liking the mask is that you don't wear it very long so its not really that bad.

Saying all the above... I still don't like the mask.

I guess the fact I was diagnosed with Hodgkins over a long weekend, then had my next 6 months worth of "every second" weekend messed up by chemo and now I'm sitting with the bloody mask over the easter weekend doesn't help.
As I'm sitting here at the moment I'm actually not even wearing the mask. I am in a closed room however since the cleaning lady or domestic worker rather, is cleaning in the rest of the house.

BUT

The truth about all of it is; It passes. I've been here before and I'm going to probably be here again in a months time. Next time however I will be hospitalized and even then it will pass.

Me and Heath where sitting on the couch last night discussing how fast time goes by. Though the labourious task of getting through the initial 6 months of chemo felt like an eternity. It passed. And tho we thought the next treatment plan was going to take forever. I'm already a month away of having scans done again to check if the treatment worked again. AND NO TREATMENT TILL THEN - HIPEEE!!! Plus a trip to the Kruger inbetween.