vonkpos uit Ierland eBook Johann Wentzel
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“Vonkpos uit Ierland”
Please note that this is the same book as "Emails from Ireland" that is available as both a kindle and paperbook.
Ek is besig om hierdie plek al meer te geniet - gaan slaap elke aand met pyne in my bene van al die stap. Het nie kompetisie van die mans hier nie - die Ierse mans het rooi hare... en so begin my nuwe lewe in Ierland.
"Vonkpos uit Ierland / e-mails from Ireland" is 'n versameling van 71 stukkies wat ek terug "huis" toe gestuur het gedurende die eerse vier en 'n bietjie jare in Noord Ierland.
Slegs vier van die stukkies is in Afrikaans terwyl die res in matriek Suid Afrikaanse Engels geskryf is.
Daar is ook drie kort kort stories vir Linda opgeneem in die boek
A Story for Linda
I was born on the 24th of August 1952. I had another birth experience fifty five years and one day later. Don't forget the one day.
I did not want to be born on that Sunday, that Sunday of the 24th of August 1952. I did not like the dust and the heat, but mainly the dust. There were dust-devils swirling around outside I could see it through the opening in the corner of the bedroom where my Mother was struggling to convince me otherwise. It was a house constructed mainly from corrugated iron sheets.
I arrived just after sunset - in the windless quite born by the late Sunday dusk. My mother was eighteen years old. She was in labour for over eighteen hours. I may still carry the scars. I was my Mother's blue eye boy.
It was the Friday evening after my fifty-fifth birthday. I was at peace with the world and the world at peace with me. There was no wind blowing outside. There was definitely no dust. It was a mild August Friday evening in Northern Ireland.
There are no dust storms in Northern Ireland. Not even when the farmers bring out their tractors to plough the fields waiting for the potatoes - Queens and Pinks. I was home alone.
I was born in a town called Odendaalsrus. It is more like a village slap bang at the centre of the Gold Fields of the Orange Free State, one of the four official provinces of Republic of South Africa. Odendaalsrus is about five miles from Welkom, the sometimes unofficial capital of the Gold Fields.
My parents used to move house and provinces quite a lot. I attended a number of primary schools and three high schools spread over three provinces. Namibia was regarded as the fifth province of the Republic of South Africa in those days. The world was less complicated then.
I am the eldest of four children, three boys and a girl.
It's my Mother's birthday the day after Christmas, the 26th of December. I was born at the right time.
Bready is a wee village about eight miles north (or is that south?) of Londonderry (or is that Derry?). It is also about eighty miles from Waringstown where the sun lives. Certain things we just know.
My one brother was born in the Free State as well but in a place called Bethel, not Bethlehem. My sister was born in Okahandja, a town in Namibia forty five miles north of Windhoek Windhoek being the official capital of Namibia. Namibia was still called South-West Africa in those days. My baby brother, nearly eleven years younger than me, was born in Windhoek. Windhoek was where I started high school.
One can smell the liquid fertilizer that the potato farmers spray over their lands. It smells like manure, no doubt about that and will hang in the air for days on end, a bit like the dust storms hanging over the Orange Free State when the fields are ploughed to prepare it for the mealies. Vast dusty fields that will not always born a crop due to the lack of follow-up rains during the planting season.
The liquid fertilizer is transported by narrow winding BaBa Black Sheep roads in tanks pulled by tractors that make you want to be a boy again. Bright red (Ferguson) and green (John Deer) tractors toying with tanks running on balloon tyres in and out of water lodged fields.
I moved to Northern Ireland at the right time in my life.
vonkpos uit Ierland eBook Johann Wentzel
Emails home to South Africa from Ireland. Moves slowly as he records his work and activities. Its ok.Product details
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vonkpos uit Ierland eBook Johann Wentzel Reviews
This is an heartfelt account of a South African gentleman moving to Ireland. The mystery and confusion of this land is summed up with warmth and humour. A great read!
The book started out fine. Mr. Wentzel's writing style was witty and at times was very humorous. Unfortunately, the book fell apart toward the end. It seemed rushed and disjointed. Also, I didn't notice any glaring typos at the beginning but they were there toward the end. Something changed. I know the word "wee" is often used in Ireland but every time he mentioned his lady, his car, his house and the island he used the word "wee" in front of it and after a while it became tiresome. The last 35 or so pages were horrible. Why? Because they were all written in Afrikaans! I don't read nor speak Afrikaans. Why was most of the book in English but not all of it? It's really too bad because I would have probably given it a higher rating if I could have actually understood it. There were a few passages written in Afrikaans throughout the book that I couldn't understand but one reviewer said there was some Afrikaans thrown in so I expected it. It would have been nice if he had translated it. I'm glad I got the book free because I would be returning it. I really hate to give bad reviews but you should be aware that unless you understand Afrikaans, the ending of the book will be useless to you. And you shouldn't have to pay for something you can't read without a warning.
Johann left sunny Africa for the cold and wet Ireland and in doing so kept his ties with friends and family by sending them e-mail stories from Ireland. His strange sense of humour makes for many laughs while reading his book. Linda completes him and ensures his African heart remains in Ireland.
It is obvious that he went from "oh my god not another potato" to "oh my god I can't go a day without some potato".
Emails home to South Africa from Ireland. Moves slowly as he records his work and activities. Its ok.
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