Sippers Wineclub yearend

We had a great year-end function at Avondale. After tasting the wonderful wines (especially the reds.. and the Chenin) we had a stunning dinner supplied by Anita. This is a picture of Fred and Martie taken just after the function.

Izak left for Witbank

We dropped off our youngest at cape Town International this morning to fly to Johannesburg. He will be working as a trainee engineer on the Kriel coal mine (near Witbank).

Strand Apartment

We visited the apartment in the Strand today to just check if everything is still Okay after we had a number of people renting the property. This picture from the living-room towards Gordon Bay shows how beautiful it could be on a clear day like today.

Garage reptile

A snake died on the floor of our new home in de Wijlanden. We think that this is a good sign :-) On this picture Liza shows the impression that the dead snake left in the wet cement.

Izak and Mariet

My youngest son and his girlfriend having lunch with us on Sunday. We drove out to our house in the winelands that we are building to show to Mariet (she is studying to be an Architect) an dthen ended up at a Indonesian restaurant close-by.

MTN Banking at the Airport

I arrived back at Cape Town International Airport on Friday after the prize-giving ceremony. One of the shuttle-buses were advertising MTN banking. This is a product running on our software. I had to take a photograph.

My beautiful wife

2006 Wineclub end-of-year Function

We had a great time with our winefriends this year, that culminated with a dinner at Hillcrest Winefarm. This is a picture of Nico and Willem in front of the restaurant.

Looking for new Office Space

This is me and Craig and Adriaan on the building site of a possible new office block for our growing company. The current office space is getting to small and we will have to re-locate next year. Today we investigated alternative space.

de Wijnlanden

The house we are building in de Wijnlanden is progressing well. The cellar has been completed and the foundations are now being lain. See the beauty of the mountains and vineyards in the background.

Staffmeeting

We have staff meeting every first Monday of the month. Afterwards we have a few beers and/or glasses of wine. This is a pic taken of a few of the brilliant engineers working at Fundamo after the staff meeting.

Craig at the Office

Craig arrived back from leave in the Eastern Cape today, but had to leave immediately for France where we will be announcing a collaboration agreement with S1 Corporation in Paris.

Saturday

Our special friends Quintes and Rielle visited on Saturday for Dinner. We had "skilpadjies" and Karoo "Kreef". The evening was good fun with talking and sharing jokes till late at night. even though Izak and Mariet is studying for their final year exams, they took some time off to also spend time with us. One of my new Nigerian friends told me that a Nigerian proverb says that my friends are my clothes. I felt it tonight.

Izak rus

Izak is my youngest son. He is currently writing his final exams as a third year Engineering student. He usually lives in a Res on campus but decided to spend a few days with us while studying. It is interesting to experience your own life again in a way by seeing how your kids tackle theirs. I also was a student once and had to prepare for exams. I had a certain view of life, of my parents of my lecturers etc. It is interesting to see how my son sees life.

Wim and Ant

Just got this new mobile and wanted to see how I can take photos and post it directly on the web. The Sony W800 came pre-loaded with Blogger - how cool! So I took a picture of two business associated and friends in our offices after we spoke about how we will conquer the world.