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I used to collect cow-sculptures in South Africa …they were so cute, they didn’t look like this sculpture in this image, but this one is just as cute…cows are characters in many children’s stories/songs..and if you’ve forgotten about “Old MacDonald’s farm”… here’s the Youtube video to refresh your mind..hehe… and do you know the Children’s Classic…”Moomin”!…We used to have a cow on the farm — well, we actually had many, but “Makkie” was a special cow. She LOVED lemons! When we were around, she made her way to the nearest lemon tree – there were three near the kraal – and stood there mooing like mad! –Eilandkind, if you read here…congratulations on your birthday today!!!
“Cow jumped over the moon” –http://www.art.co.uk
“Moo moo” from –http://www.art.co.uk
Image: gimmecorn.com…this looks almost like our “Makkie” hehe..asking for lemons!
When I was little, we called these cows…foxterrier cows!! hehehe…
On this link they show you how to draw a cow…
http://www.brentwindsor.co.uk/draw_cartoon_cow.php
This is one of my jars with cows…bought in South Africa…and brought with me all the way here! I love them, but couldn’t bring them all….wonder if you can still buy them in shops there!
Image: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/
Cattle dipping was great fun on the farm…those tiny little calves…were always so cute when swimming from the one end to the other!
Image: http://home.swipnet.se/mooamp/wallpapers/ …on this site you can get some wallpapers
Carlsen vs Anand Sochi 2014
Anand vs Carlsen Chennai 2013
London Chess Classic 2015
Istanbul Chess 2012 
Biel Chess Festival 2011- Click the image for the official site
Karen Asrian Memorial[click image for the link]
Tata Steel Chess 
London Chess Classic 
Dortmund 2010 
South African Open 2010
British Chess Championships 2010
Nalchik 2010 Fide Women's Grand Prix -25 April to 8 May
2009 - 2-12th July - Dortmund Live 2009
SA Open 3-11 July in Cape Town
MTel 2009
Linares 2010
World Youth Chess Championships 2009
Anand vs Topalov 21 April 2010
My blogging friend Jodi would LOVE your site – she collects everything with cows on it.. I’ll have to send her your url.. haha!
Hi – as a fellow blogger I thought you might be interested in joining in on this weeks review. (go and look at a handful of random blogs and see what others have done with them. This is not reviewing the content, it is to look at the overall package, the attractiveness, the user friendliness of it.)
http://examine-review-write.blogspot.com/2008/08/6-review-blog.html
Its often said that the only way you can improve is to keep practicing, keep learning and go and check out what others are doing, model excellent behaviour or techniques and.. keep practicing.. etc etc.
Its easy to fall in love with your own blog – the layout, the widgets, the look and feel of it. But is it really advertising you in the best light?
Who knows, you may find a co-writer to work on a project together or inspiration to change or modify yours.
hope to see your review next week.
Hi Annie…Welcome to my blog! And tks for the comments. I was a collector of owls too! Owls are such cute animals! Somewhere on my blog I’ve an entry about owls… I think I had more owl sculptures than cow sculptures! that was apart from my collection of dolls!
Tks for the link about reviews… i’ve checked it out. 😉
and I don’t think I’m going to change what I’m blogging about as I blog about what I like and what I find interesting, if other people don’t like it…there’s always a X to click on to go to another site… (that’s what Wipneus used to say and I agree 100% with her). I don’t blog to please other people, I please myself, as this is sort of a “hobby”…and if I practise a hobby, I practise what I like and not what other people like. I’m in that sense not a “follower”, but like to do my “own” thing.. I do blog about Chess…(because I love it and play it myself)……and anything/everything that interests me…as it says on my blog. It’s up to the reader to read or to “move on”. I don’t think I’m the right person to review other blogs…I think I will leave that one for those who “make a living” out of if. 😉
—there’s another short message for you to read further down too 😉
Ek gaan nou in afrikaans skryf 😉
Ek stem, hierdie is jou stokperdjie. Ek persoonlik is mal oor jou blog!! Hier is altyd iets van alles. Hulle kan maar die X druk as ietsie hulle pla! 😆 Almal wat hier lees gaan saam met my stem, jou blog “Rock”
Terug na die moo moo’s, ek is mal oor beeste!! Ek verander my kombuis gereeld! Eerstens is my kombuis hoofsaaklik plaas kombuis. In die begin was dit sonneblomme, toe koeie nou is dit koffie en groente!! Ek sal jou laat weet as ek moeg raak daarvoor en weer verander. 😆
Hierdie week doen ek interior decorating in my huis. Ek kan gou uitgekuier raak met dinge, dan moet ek bietjie verander, al skuif ek ook nou net goed rond.
En dan gaan ek in die tuin begin, lente blommetjies plant!! Ek is so bly die aaklige winter is die jaar verby. Ek weet nie wat gaan aan met my nie, maar die winter was vir my sleg die jaar!! Gewoonlik hou ek nogal van al die seisoene!! Elkeen het sy eie bekoring!
Nou ja laat ek verder op jou blogs rond grou 😉
Lekker dag
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Hi Wipneus…Dankie vir jou kommentaar en mooi woorde! Ek stem saam, ek gaan beslis nie my manier verander net om ander te “please” nie, dan moet ek ophou blog. Ek blog eintlik oor dinge wat ek wil “bewaar” en ek save my blog van tyd-tot-tyd…my pos oor die Boere-oorlog dateer ek heeltyd op met inligting, ek het al daar ‘n verskriklike lang inskrywing soos ek opdateer en “vergader”… dis soos ‘n album… ek versamel sekere inligting..veral histories (ek vrek oor history….ek wil ‘n entry begin oor die Groot Trek) eintlik om vir die kinders ook later as ‘n “verwysing” te wees… hulle geniet ook die geskiedenis van SA en wil graag weet en weet al heelwat.
Gepraat van groente! Nou laat jy my onthou van al my groentes wat ek ook gekoop het… wonder waar ek DIT weggepak het!! 😉
Geniet jou blomme, ek moet ook diekant aan die tuin aandag gee..het al begin, maar nog baie om te doen.
Lekker dag vir jou ook!
Nee wat, ek stem ook saam Nikita!! Ek blog oor goed wat ek van hou en as iemand nie daarvan hou nie, hoef hy nie daar te kom lees nie! Dis ‘n hobby soos jy sê – dis nie ‘n kompetisie nie!!
Ek geniet jou blog en ek’s mal oor jou “moo art” inskrywing! Ek verander ook gedurig my temas. Ek het op die oomblik ‘n fancy vir eende – kan jy dit nou glo!!
Vergeet ek om te sê daar’s huiswerk vir jou op my blog…
Hi Annie…I think if you click on this image link, that shows you that the Chess-info on my blog is enough/suits the needs for the people i “cater” for… and those visitor-info is not just chess players visiting the site for info..i’m not even an official blog-reporter about these World chess championships and i think i have sometimes a little more info than some of the official sites…i usually get half of that number of visitors or just a bit more…and that tells me too that other people enjoy what i’m doing and that I don’t need to “change”.. I don’t think you can try to change a style of someone, only perhaps if it is a commercial site…
Hi Reisiger!.. ja nee, ek gaan nou glad nie elke ou hier probeer please nie!
ek is MAL oor eende!! ek dink dis ‘n oulike tema… noudat jy hulle noem, ek het ook so ‘n paar eendjies in my versameling gehad…en my groot gunsteling natuurlik…TARENTALE!! ek VREK oor hulle… ek het ‘n groot tarentaal skildery gekoop toe ek by my tweede skool begin skoolhou het…hang nou in my sus se huis en het net verlede jaar ‘n foto geneem, sal sien of ek hom een of ander tyd kan blog…as ek onthou…
Reisiger! ons boodskappe het so oor-en-weer gekruis! haha..ek sal gaan kyk watse werk jy my gegee het…jy weet…ek moet dit eintlik fluister…ek sit nog steeds in my nagklere hier! en ek het al 6vm vir Wipneus more gese op haar blogger-blog!! 😉
After all these years, all these many years now I know why they were called the moomins.
Gosh the number of hours I had spent looking up dictionaries you will not believe. I feel a heartwrenching D’oh coming.
Hi Nikita, dankie vir die goeie wense!
Jy hoef niks te verander hier nie.
Ek, persoonlik stel nie belang in skaak nie, so ek skip dit net, maar die res is wonderbaarlik wonderlik! 🙂
Ek is ook lief vir koeie en jou pos het my nou sommer laat verlang na ons plaas vér in die Oos-Kaap!
Kyk na my blog ek het vir jou my koeie gewys.
O, en tarentale!! Daai geluid soos die van krakende kruiwa wiele! Dit maak my sommer baie homesick. Daar is so ‘n swerm hier op die eiland, wat ek soms kan hoor in die laatmiddag, en dan trek my hart met ‘n punt Afrika toe.
hi littleindian..the Moomins are almost like trolls and I think they’re supposed to be more like hippos…I’ve put them up here as they have the “moo”- in their word too… 😉
Hi Eilandkind…dis waar ek saam met jou stem! Ek sal ook skip en aanlees as ek op ‘n blog kom waar ek van sekere onderwerpe hou en wil saam kuier daaroor… ek hou van jou koeitjies! jammer oor die gebreekte een! Jong, ek verlang darem daarna om die geluid van tarentale te hoor! Ek dink ons Afrika-mense is gebore om daar te wees!
Hi Nikita,
Sien jy hou ook van uile. Het jy al ooit die Uilhuis besoek?
hi Braam…ek is gek oor hulle, die Nonnetjie-uil is cute! dis wat hulle hier in Eng die “barn”-owl noem en dis juis op “Springwatch” (as jy my uil-inskrywing wil he, skreeu, want Springwatch is daar gelink, as ek reg onthou) waar ons hulle gekyk het…na 12 die nag! 😉 O ja, die Uilhuis? ek weet nie van die Uilhuis nie, net van die Uile-afdeling in die PTA-dieretuin!
Uilhuis in Nieu Bethesda. Helen Martin(s) het daar ‘n soort van kluisenaarsbestaan gevoer. Stuur so ‘n paar links na jou epos adres. (Jy hou mos daarvan om so ‘n bietjie in geskiedenis te delf):-) Nieu Bethesda vandag soort van kunstenaars wegkruipplek. Grond haas onbekostigbaar waar hulle dit ‘n paar jaar gelede wou “weggee”. Nonnetjie uil toevallig my gunsteling naas die naguiltjie.
Hi Nikita, Was so ‘n paar jaar gelede gelukkig genoeg om by meer as een geleentheid by die uilhuis aan te doen. Met my eerste besoek het die plek my baie morbied gestem want tyd was beperk. Met latere besoeke kon ek meer tyd spandeer en ook nadat ek in haar agtergrond gekrap het, het daar so ‘n vuurhoutjieflikker opgegaan.
O ja, jou foksie koeie… my oupa het ‘n melkery gehad en in die era voor melkmasjiene het jy altyd gedurende melktyd ‘n draai om ou Jim geloop waar hy sit, want vang met ‘n straal melk sal hy jou en nie eens daai sjir-sjir ritme breek nie.
hi Braam! Dankie vir die links, ek sal email nou lees! Dit klink waarlik interessant! en jy het nogal die moeite gedoen om terug te gaan, dus moet dit seker “iets” wees om te besoek! ek weet presies van daardie “sjir-sjir”-geluid waarvan jy praat, daardie plaaswerkers het net presies geweet hoe om ‘n koei te melk! My swaer het ‘n melkery gehad en hy het nou stoetkoeie gehad en hulle was so “getrain” en hulle het sommer vanself ingegaan om gemelk te word naderhand, hulle het “gevoel” dit was tyd om te melk en dan in ‘n ry gaan staan! haha..was nogal iets om te sien!
http://www.cows.ca/store/xcart/home.php?cat=282
This link was sent to me on the chess site…so check it out, i like the mugs! 😉
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