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Saturday 15 November 2014

love life!

Tuesday 4 November 2014

Chasing the light


reality fades
darkness all around
the wolf hears only silence
an absence of all sound

a shadow world abiding
infected with my pain
no more a place of magic
no sunshine only rain

my love when will you find me
tight hold me to your soul
renew my hope set fire my heart
the broken once more whole

tomorrow, yes, the sun will rise
blind eyes will once more see
the wolf will wake and chase the light
the glory yet to be



Copyright ©  Eryll Oellermann 2014 

Monday 6 October 2014

Manfred Walter Oellermann

10.11.1941 - 06.10.2002

real love lasts forever


Wednesday 1 October 2014

1.10.1966 - 1.10.2014
Manfred and Eryll

Today would have been our 48th wedding anniversary

my beloved, you were always and will always be the love of my life.




Thursday 25 September 2014

the rest of my life

well, here i am, sixty six years old, ready to begin again!

so much questioning, so much self debate ...
should i, shouldn't i?
should we, shouldn't we?

even spoke to my beloved mann about it.
not that he voices his opinion in actual words you understand!
but, after our thirty six years of marriage, i am usually pretty damn sure of what he would say.

one day, i just knew. time to move on, time to settle down, time to begin the new life.
i find my life tends to come in segments and although it is sometimes a little difficult to tell an end from a beginning ...
suddenly, surprisingly, i just knew.

of course it is not an actual brand new beginning! more like a return to a previous starting point, older, wiser and determined to succeed.

today - the first day of the rest of my life!


Saturday 5 April 2014

a taste of home

on a corner in glasgow along the great western road ...
there is a little taste of home for globe wandering, boerewors hungry south africans.
on wednesday the good animal doctor took me there.

i left home in splendid spring sunshine harbouring cheerful thoughts of warm weather. My home is heated by a coal fire, the system works and heats the house quite efficiently, but ...
it entails lugging coal from coal shed to house at least twice a day and quite frankly my coal bill is of a size which, were i a pessimist, i might deem - unfortunate.

on to glasgow and nirvana.

lamb bunny chow!
boerewors rolls!
sparletta creme soda!
nik naks!
chocolate logs!
tennis biscuits!
ouma buttermilk rusks!

etc ...

only the african born would understand the degree of joy engendered by the sight of these once familiar goodies.

the plates were enamel!
ready, steady ...









go!