Boeremusiek videos To my (damaged) ears, it comes across as cats being murdered, but slightly better than bagpipes though. :D

I listen to RSG(radio sonder grense) in the morning on my way to work. I never listen to East coast radio because 90% persent of the music is for teens and to me that is a lot of crap. :)
I like most music except the new stuff, country music and some of the Afrikaans singers that are out there for a fast buck. Funny enougth I am not to fond of Boeremusiek, maybe because I can't dance. Will leave the radio on in the workshop will I am working. Top of the list is 70's And 80's rock, Elvis, Neil Daimond ... and the popular classic music.

I love Boeremusiek. Although the instruments are different, it reminds me of the music you hear in the beer halls in Munich. Drinking liter mugs of beer in the Hofbrau Haus in Munich is the most fun a guy can have in my opinion.

I watched a couple of those videos and they don't show the crowds but it sounds like they're having a good time.

Boeremusiek also reminds me a lot of Cajun Zydeco music played in Louisiana which has a similar tempo and lots of accordian in it.

Johan: I tried listening to RSG but the website was all in Afrikaans and so was the broadcast. I think I connected but since I couldn't understand the language, I'm not sure if I was listening to the commercial you typically hear when you first connect or the actual broadcast. I'll try again later.

Alan: I'll see if I can connect at 5:00 local.

I tried connecting to some of those stations that said they broadcast in Xhosa because I wanted to hear it. They were speaking a language foreign to my ears but I didn't hear anything particularly unusual. I thought Xhosa had lots of clicks or other sounds.

Hi Doug,
You will only hear Afrikaans on RSG. Sorry. :)
People think that Afrikaans have a connection with the German language. It had no influance in it's development stage. Afrikaans is a lot closer to the 'Flemish? (Vlaamse)" language that you hear in the southern Europe.

We do some business with native Flemish speakers in Belgium, and they simply talk slowly in Flemish while we talk slowly in Afrikaans and the business gets done quite happily.

In my parents house I grew up with boere musiek and at a young age I hated it but hey as one gets older I actually listen to it now only on some occasions and I must say one can (skoffel ) dance to it till the late hours.

:D:D:D Hennie, thats you catching up to Gerald, some would say its maturing, but its just plain getting older...

Boere musiek is even better than a Subaru on a mountain pass...Sorry Hennie:D

Have you driven one yet? Best way to get attention is to drive it with Dozi`s " ou ry perd" and that makes it even better than a mountain pass.(new song for the kids is Kurt Darrens "kaptein span die seile":)

Delay on my MM build
 

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" An older Luke Skywalker?" :D


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The boot is a nice piece of technology. Air valves are fitted to the sides for pumping up a internal bag. This clamps the foot forward to immobilize the angle joint.

This injury and the painful one to my chest muscles are going to have a effect on my completion of the machine. It could be weeks.

Johan,

Ouch! That does not look like it has a good story to go with it. Sorry to hear you have had some medical issues. Hope you have a quick recovery.

Johan, whishing prompt recovery and some peace of mind through this painful situation !
Obliged to take things easier, maybe will give you a chance to start the controller box in the mean time ?
Good luck and hope to see you back with your build, ;)

Johan,
Hope you are feeling better soon. Are those things lightsabres? :)

Yes ... LOL ... Heath.
This is how my car looks after the accident. The air bag burst on impact and thats why I sustain some injurys. Thanks for the positive words. I need it. I am getting so frustrated because I can't do anything. Mechmate builders are movers and shakers, not sitting and day dreaming! :(
My control box are finished Robert but I still need to learn a lot on the programs. The wife force me to prop the leg up which is a uncomfortable position.

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Johan, take it on the bright side, leg up and do some computer time!....
Agree, MMers like moving, but sometime, got to do what has to be done… relax and spend time with those programs….
Glad to see you’re ok after all…. this metal bending :mad:

Some of daughter's wedding pics out in blogspace

Another rough album

Wow…Sooo nice.
I can actually see a smile out of a VERY proud father….:p
Thanks for sharing those precious family souvenir

Gerald,

Stunning!:):):)

Thanks for sharing your daughter's beautiful wedding. It's such a special event for your family and, now, your MechMate family gets to celebrate it too.

Gerald,
Thanks for sharing the pictures. You have a wonderful family. :)
If I am not mistaken, that shirt is really close to MM blue. :):eek::cool:

It wasn't my choice of shirt! That was also the first time in many years that I wore a tie. :D

Veels geluk. looks like everybody had a great time

Very very nice wedding PERFECT!!! Congratulations.

Gerald,

Congratulations. The photos are fantastic. I hope they have a wonderful life together.

Congratulations Gerald,
With all these weddings lately, you will have to change the paypal button on the site:D

My wife is a wedding planner - I know the costs!

Have just returned from a week's holiday in Mauritius. Looks like this forum has been rather active and will take a couple of days to catch up.

Wow Gerald. I never heard of Mauritius before so I had to google it up and I must say.... I need to go there. That is some beautiful country and the beaches look phenomenal. How was the beach sand there? Large pebbles or small? Must show the wife this one for a future holiday/vacation since the weather is starting to get cold here.

Welcome back..

My village, Fish Hoek, is going to make news again, for another horrendous shark killing of a swimmer. This time it was fairly shallow water, only 20 meters/yards from shore.

Just heard it on sabc 2

Gerald: Thanks for sharing these wonderful photos. They are the nicest wedding photos I have ever seen (and I am not exaggerating!) Best of luck to the happy couple.

Joe

That is really sad for the swimmer. Swimming sure is hazardous in SA. Maybe that is why most people have pools.

James, I had missed seeing this post at the time you made it, sorry. The beach sand was a coarse sand, but still a sand and not pebbles. Ave diameter under 0.1"

An interesting picture of Cape Town's "city bowl" area:
http://virtualafrica.co.za/virtual-t...how-we-did-it/

Expand that pic to full screen, and then drag/zoom

Cape Town is amazing. I like how the mountains wrap the city and exit into the ocean. The process for the panaramic was intense and ingenious. Gave me a few ideas of future projects. Now the shark attacks, if we ever visit, have sealed the deal for us staying "Land Lovers" :) I need my 2 legs.

Thanks for that update Gerald.

Hi there i lived like next ot for 13 years.
Looks cool doesnt it?

snap er echt geen bal van

Hoezit!!

At the time of the Great Trek, the trekkers found a signpost near today's Bloemfontein which said:

Na die Transvaal (with an arrow pointing straight ahead), and
To Natal (with an arrow pointing right)

Those who could read Afrikaans went straight ahead, those who understood English turned right. And those who couldn't read stayed there. ;)