30 December 2011

28 December 2011

Amadea discharged from hospital

Amadea was discharged from hospital, feeling better now. Praise God for that.

A joke for the end of the year:

An American meets a Romanian, they talk a bit and the American says proudly: Well, now in America we have Obama...and Stevie Wonder, Bob Hope, Johnny Cash...
The Romanian fellow replies: Now in Romania we have president Basescu... no wonder, no hope, no cash!

24 December 2011

Amadea at hospital

was admitted today at Christmas Eve. Not feeling well, vomiting and diarrea and a high fever next to it.
Just hope and pray for her to get better.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year!
God bless!

23 December 2011

The day before Christmas Eve

We  have been out in the village with my family. We have distributed the Christmas cards in the hospital - the cards which we have reveived from UK - and also been at the kindergarten and given out some shoeboxes from Link Romania for the children.
I have some photos below taken today.

16 December 2011

Christmas cards arrived

safely today morning. They shall be distributed next week.

14 December 2011

Gift distribution at hospital

This afternoon went out to distribute the NNRT Christmas gifts for the patients. My family helped me doing this, and than the nurses joined and together we distributed all the gifts for the patients. Each patient has received a pair of warm socks, one orange juice and one pack of snacks.
The patients were very thankful for the gifts!
The Christmas cards did not arrived yet, but hopefully they will arrive in the next few days and than I go and distribute those too.
Weather was fine, but it was very foggy, so had to drive slowly. Also noticed that the tent which we erected now is dismanteled for the winter time and it will be put back in the spring. See the below photos taken just a bit earlier today:

13 December 2011

Shopping for gifts

Yesterday I did the shopping with my family, of the gifts we shall distribute in the hospital.
This year we bought 150 bottle of orange juice and 150 pieces of 85g snacks from the Metro and also bought 150 pairs of winter socks 100% cotton good quality from the local market. The socks were especially requested by the hospital.  All these funded by the NNRT.
We are ready to distribute these, but... the Christmas cards haven't arrived yet. As soon as they will arrive we are going out. See some photos below.
           that is what each patient will get, plus the Christmas Card.

23 November 2011

Mina visit - 23 November

Very cold day. It is rather winter than autumn. Visited the hospital, the dentist and the kindergarten.
Took some photos while there. John is doing the walls insulation downstairs. And already is much warmer there than as it used to be.
The head nurse recommanded to get some socks for gifts if possible in December.
Started with yesterday the kitchen and the storage of the hospital stoped functioning. Now is official: the new catering company brings the food there 3 times a day. The staff still hopes that this is just temporarily measure and the old cooking way will come back, but the chances are quite small for that. At least now...

20 November 2011

Sunday

Romania covered by fog, and many road accidents. Some airports closed. Very cold as well.

14 November 2011

Road tax vignette,

the old one expired on 10 November.
I bought a new one which is valid for another year.

10 November 2011

Visiting Mina and Codlea

Just arrived home from Mina 1 Mai and Codlea.
Did the following today:
- being at kindergarten, given some second hand clothes for poor children in Mina 1 Mai
- at hospital, delivered the dental items to the dental surgery, as I did yesterday the shopping according to her list
- made a list of the objects (tools) we have lended to the carpenter
- met the head nurse and the doctor in Mina 1 Mai
- being at Rafael foundation in Codlea and had a chat there.
The box with clothes for children
The dental items for the dental surgery
The Rafael Foundation in Codlea

02 November 2011

The car needs

a new induction coil and a new set of spark plugs, after been checked in the garage.

L.E: this has been taken care of, now is repaired and runs OK.

29 October 2011

Some headlines in national newspapers,

caught my attention today. One it would be the possibility for Great Britain to say NO for the EU, and the country to leave the European Union. The other is even more interesting. As Prince Charles declared recently that he is a descendant of Dracula, there are people over here, who actually see Prince Charles, the future king of... Romania!
But all these are part of the future.

28 October 2011

List of names

In the past years we used to give each patient from the Hospital a Christmas card at Christmas, and an Easter card at Easter, all these cards personalised to the name of each patient. For doing this, we always need the updated list of patients names. We wish to do the same this Christmas too, and for that reason we are waiting for the new list of patients' names. I was told that it will be ready by today. I am looking forward to get it.

24 October 2011

Codlea Hospital

The Codlea Hospital was finally oficially opened today morning. It operates as a Hospital.

21 October 2011

The Census

started in Romania yesterday, which will last till the end of October. Answering them is compulsory, even there are many questions which shouldn't be asked.

Amadea's 5th birthday

is today, 21 October 2011. We shall celebrate it tomorrow. May God bless her.

The lesson with the nuts

There is a lesson to be learned with the nuts: alloy wheels need specific nuts and steel wheels need a different type of nuts. At first look they are similar, but they are still different and can not be used on different type of wheels.
We have first fitted the steel winter wheels with the alloy nuts, took some photos but in a few moments later bought new nuts for steel wheels. And there is a difference which can be seen from the photos, not mentioning the safety.
The new nuts:

The steel wheels with the alloy nuts:


And the steel wheels with the steel nuts:

18 October 2011

New wheels needed

Unfortunately needed 4 new steel wheels for the car because the previous ones were not made for Ford. The good news is that the tire is exactly what we needed, and those wheels I got in fact for free, did not paid them, so we did not lost any money.
Yesterday and today had to look at several places, until I found some in Sacele.
I bought these second hand ones today for 350 lei (all 4).
The black ones are the ones I bought today, the grey ones are the painted ones from last time.
I have cleansed the new ones as well, and put the anti rust liquid on them. I will paint them too.
 And after cleaning them:

The painting is finished at morgue

See the photos below:

16 October 2011

Big accident at Timisu de Sus

Today at noon a famous Romanian TV show presenter had an accident at Timisu de Sus, near Brasov.
There is an inquiry but the facts are: 2 people died, and a few injured. One persone severly injured.
The cause of the accident: illegal overtaking of the TV presenter, going on the other side of the road, and frontally hitting a Dacia Logan. It was cold, raining and snowing in the area. The accident took place next to the Timisu Hospital.
This raises a big issue: the roads of Romania are bad, there is an urgent need for motorways, as too many people die on the Romanian roads. Also a bad habbit of Romanian drivers: overtaking in places with no visibility, which is illegal, extremely dangerous.